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Identifier: ferretfactsfanci00hard (find matches)
Title: Ferret facts and fancies; a book of practical instructions on breeding, raising, handling and selling; also, their uses and fur value
Year: 1915 (1910s)
Authors: Harding, A. R. (Arthur Robert), 1871-
Subjects: Ferret
Publisher: Columbus, O., A. R. Harding
Contributing Library: Smithsonian Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: Smithsonian Libraries
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nethat offers more than ordinary wages. Theinformation so far applies more especially tothose raising large numbers. By far the major-ity will begin in a small way, keeping say fromone to a dozen females, so that the balance ofthis chapter will mainly be of interest to begin-ners or those who keep a few only. Much of thisinformation was gathered from observation aswell as correspondence so that there is consid-erable repetition of methods already explained. The male and female must be kept separatein the breeding season and only one ferret in thepen with the young, or they will destroy them.They will breed three times a year if handledright, but it is not advisable to breed more thantwice, as the third litter would be too small formarket during the hunting season and wouldhave to be kept about a year before they couldbe marketed, which would not pay. When a ferret has young ones, they must bewatched so the mother will not cover them toodeep in the straw, as this causes sweat, which is
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BREEDING. 69 dangerous to the young ones. After they gettheir eyes open, which will be in about six v/eeks,they can be weaned. Open up the pen on warmdays so they can run about and get in the sun. The main diet of the ferret is bread and milk,with raw meat occasionally in the form of arabbit head or a bird, or in fact, any animal.They are especially fond of rabbits and youngchickens, sparrows, woodchucks, etc. Theyshould be fed raw meat quite frequently whilethey are nursing the young, as they sometimesbecome blood-thirsty and eat the young if theycan get no meat. One raiser who breeds a few each seasonwrites as follows: A ferret carries its young forsix weeks and has from one to twelve in a litter;the average seems to be from three to seven.The young do not open their eyes for about sixweeks, but should be fed milk as soon as theywill drink it, which is at about the age of twoweeks if a large litter, four if a small one, as themothers milk seems to practically cease. Iheard of severa