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From: Larry C. Lyons
To: CF-Community
Sent: Tuesday, December 02, 2003 3:29 PM
Subject: RE: Later
It hits in clusters. After this we're sticking with private breeders.
The animals from the smaller breeders seem to do a lot better, have
considerably fewer problems, and are generally more healthy that the
ones from Marshall Farms.
MF is the Microsoft of the ferret world. If you go into pet stores,
like Petco etc, the chances are that these ferrets are from Marshall
Farms. People are starting to see that these ferrets have a lot of
susceptibilities to endocrine related cancers etc. It may be from a
combination of pushing out too many ferrets from too small of a gene
pool, along with very early neutering.
I've been talking with some vets who specialize in exotics like
ferrets and the numbers do not look good. Proportionately MF ferrets
seem to have a lot more problems than those from small or hobby
breeders. If I can get funding for this , I'd love to do a study on
this. Although I would not be surprised if MF would try to block its
publication.
As for the fourth time. Remember ferrets only live 5 to 8 years.
First there was Ryoga, who developed first adrenal sarcoma 4 years
ago, then insulinoma 3 years ago, then he died of complications of
both at age 7. Which is very old for a ferret. then Augustus has
begun to follow the same route. Finally the latest stuff is happening
to Osmar.
As a side note, all 3 are Marshall Farms ferrets.
larry
>man...
>is this like the 4th time in 2 years i have heard you speak of sickie
>ferrets?
>bummer...
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