I’ve been interested in ferrets since I was a child. I got my first ferrets, Nata and Rambo, after long consideration when they were already 3 years old, in 2019. With them I got to know the good and the bad; Rambo was very social and cuddly when Nata was independent and wary of me, because her background from petting zoo. She was nippy and loved toes, but eventually we were able to co-exist, when I had my socks on. I lost them both 2021 due to health issues.
First pair of our current business came in 2023, albino siblings Ketku and Kelmi. These were my first kits to own and we had amazing time bonding with them and watching them grow. Year 2024 we waited new kit from two different breeders. One of the pairing didn’t succeed and the other litter had many casualties and with agreement of the breeder we went to Spain to get Lurjus. Lurjus is my first hybrid, on paper 20%, but he’s an angel! Spring 2025 he had two dates with two different jills. The first pairing wasn’t successful, but the other one made Lurjus father of four. There might be more plans for him after his implant stops working. I will not be using him in my own breeding, but he’s available to other breeders.
We live in a house on the countryside and our ferrets have their own room. We let the ferrets to free roam in our ferret proofed living room / open kitchen area several times per week. Our ferrets can’t free roam all the time, because our older dogs don’t get along with them. This summer 2025 we hoped to build outdoor enclosures, so the ferrets can decide if they want to be inside or outside, but we decided to start looking for new house to buy. We feed raw and evolutionary diet, so our ferrets and future kits will eat raw meat, organs, meaty bones, whole prey animals (mice, rats, rabbits, chicks, quails), eggs, frog legs and some insects.
My goal is to breed short haired standard colored ferrets, mainly focusing on sable/black sable color. I will use other colors, like albino, champagne and chocolate, in my breeding, if the ferret is promising in other aspects as well. I will not use ferrets that have white markings such as DEW, blaze, panda, mitt and other fancy colors (no self, point, roan, black) and longer hair lengths in 3 generations. The ferrets do not have the same ancestor/s present in the 3 generation either. I breed healthy ferrets resembling wild polecat with good personalities and I use ferrets with a maximum 25% hybrid percentage. My intent is to breed ferrets under 12,5%. I will communicate openly about possible health problems and I aim to minimize these by not combining lines with known hereditary health problems. I won’t mate two ferrets with difficult personalities (nippy, easily scared or stressed) and I use cautions to breed these kinds of individuals at all. I seek playful, brave, easy going ferrets who love human contact. I will have one litter per year and I will breed jills in their second or third year and hobs older, if possible. The jill will have only two litters before age 5, if there isn’t a very good reason to make a third, and the hob will have maximum of four. I use jills that are 750g to 1200g and hobs that are 1800g to 2500g. My intention is not to breed micro ferrets or breed ferrets that get too big. My breeding animals won’t be sold after retiring from breeding, they will continue to live with us as loved pets till they die. I want to bring more standard ferrets in Finland and help widen the gene pool. I’m open to cooperate with other breeders, so don’t hesitate to contact me.