How do you breed ferrets with different eye colourations?

FERRETS
Edward Cook
To the best of my knowledge you either get red eyes or black(ish) peepers.

In theory, and over a lot of generations, you could breed a line of white ferrets with black eyes but only if you mated black eyed to black eyed ferrets.

By line breeding or inbreeding this would be possible but you would have to breed a lot of litters over many years for the results to be consistent.

When all’s said and done though it seems to me a pointless project and personally I have little interest in what a ferret looks like or how interesting its eye colouration is.

A rabbit doesn’t care about it, so neither do I!

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Edward Cook

A professional rabbit catcher and ferreting expert, he served for many years on the Shooting Times question-and-answer panels, answering readers on ferret feeding, welfare and working, and wrote features on rabbit control, including shooting alongside the combine harvester.

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