If you ever want to try and buy a ferret try and get as young as possible this may not make sense to you but a lot of breeders do stupid or bad things to ferret such as
- Give them no food or tiny amounts of food or water
- Put them homes covered in muck or poop or other things
Ferrets develop very fast or grow fast meaning if you get a young hob or jills they need feed quick or they can develop body or health issues, for example, all my youngest ones I got my current ones they both doubled in length within like 1 week of when I first got them.
When I got Tsar ferret he was about the size of like hamster being at most hamsters sort of sizes like 5 inches but now he's like 3 feet in length someone dropped him at my house who was carried in a hoodie which I found kind of interesting way to delivery a ferret in a hoodie jacket
The other guy I got Crommarty he was a little bit bigger than him but he grow like 6 inches to around 2,3foot in length but like the other guy, he took his body length or growth fast down to the right diet or lifestyle overall.
IF you get ferret who not being feed right one can die any moment as a baby ferret, for example, a healthy ferret can live between 10 to 16 years if you get one on the right diet or lifestyle.
Un feed or well one can basically pass away instant for example I found on a Facebook group a while ago I thought was a joke but American based ferret vet recommends all ferrets eat Quaker Porridge Oats instead of meat, I thought it was joke but he actually does that to all people who go to his vet patience he suggests they all eat that food which will end up shorting a ferret life or even kill one since it has no meat in it .
I saw a 19-year guy posted about why meat bad for ferrets but instead the recommended food of choice is Quaker Porridge oats as stated by his vet I thought was joking or being sarcastic since it sounded to stupid to be real but he was serious by that meaning his ferret probably never reached even 1 year old.
Ferret years work like this human year 1 year in Human year for ferrets equals 8 years or for 2 human years equals 16 years in Ferrets for 10-year-old ferret is basically aged 80 in ferret years.
Weak fur or ferret fur which looks very weak or thin means he's probably never being feed enough unless they have a health condition but if you get healthy ferret young one they should not really develop any health conditions normally such as some can get cancer but that's normally down to bad breeding forms or bad food as a ferret baby often.