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Right out of the pages of animal world’s best fashion magazines, ferrets bring a large array of coat colors with them.
Albino is white with red eyes and a pink nose.
Dark-eyed white (sometimes called a black-eyed white) often has very light eyes and can possibly be confused with an albino.
Sable has rich dark brown guard hairs with golden highlights and a white to golden undercoat.
Black sable has blue-black guard hairs with no golden or brownish hues. It has a white to cream undercoat.
Chocolate is described as warm dark to milk chocolate brown with a white to golden or amber undercoat and highlights.
Cinnamon is a rich light reddish brown and a golden to white undercoat. This can also be used to describe a ferret with light, tan guard hairs and pinkish or reddish highlights.
Champagne is straight tan in color.
Silver starts out grey, or white, with a few black hairs. The ferret may or may not have a mask. There is a tendency for the guard hair to lighten to white evenly over the body. As a ferret ages each progressive coat change has a higher percentage of white rather than dark guard hairs. Eventually the ferret could be all white.
Blaze and badger ferrets have a white stripe on the top of their heads. Both are prone to deafness, although nobody can say why.
Panda has a fully white head.
Siamese has an even darker color on the legs and tail than usual and a V-shaped mask.
Self is nearly solid in color.
Albino is white with red eyes and a pink nose.
Dark-eyed white (sometimes called a black-eyed white) often has very light eyes and can possibly be confused with an albino.
Sable has rich dark brown guard hairs with golden highlights and a white to golden undercoat.
Black sable has blue-black guard hairs with no golden or brownish hues. It has a white to cream undercoat.
Chocolate is described as warm dark to milk chocolate brown with a white to golden or amber undercoat and highlights.
Cinnamon is a rich light reddish brown and a golden to white undercoat. This can also be used to describe a ferret with light, tan guard hairs and pinkish or reddish highlights.
Champagne is straight tan in color.
Silver starts out grey, or white, with a few black hairs. The ferret may or may not have a mask. There is a tendency for the guard hair to lighten to white evenly over the body. As a ferret ages each progressive coat change has a higher percentage of white rather than dark guard hairs. Eventually the ferret could be all white.
Blaze and badger ferrets have a white stripe on the top of their heads. Both are prone to deafness, although nobody can say why.
Panda has a fully white head.
Siamese has an even darker color on the legs and tail than usual and a V-shaped mask.
Self is nearly solid in color.
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my ferret started out sable and changed to what i have heard called silver-tip, apparently all silver-tips start out darker in color and then molt to this white with gray and black tip hair.
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