Can ferrets have blue eyes?

Question

Can ferrets have blue eyes?

Answer 1

Yes. To check the true color of a ferrets eye, hold a flashlight at an angle so the light bounces off the edge of the iris. Unlike humans, the visible part of the eye is not colored this way (it is either black, red, or burgundy,) but the inside does have a hue.

One of my ferrets, Ranger, has blue eyes when tested this way. I have seen green, brown, blue, burgundy, and red.

Answer 2

The iris of a ferret is usually dark brown (for a sable ferret), burgundy (dark-eyed whites, blazes, or pandas), or red (albinos). On rare occasions, a ferret will have blue eyes (usually a blaze ferret). The red eyes of the albino are not really red; they are actually clear and have no pigment at all, so the red color you see is blood circulating. Similarly, the burgundy or cranberry-colored eyes of the dark-eyed white only have some pigment, so you see a combination of brown coloring and red circulating blood.

I know the Black footed ferret (cousin of the domestic )has green eyes but the only ferrets I have seen with blue eyes are the mink crosses from Europe.

Answer 3

It is possible.

Answer 4

Well I am saying yes because I have seen ferrets with blue eyes in pictures

Answer 5

I doubt it. I think they shall only have black/dark or red if albino.