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Title: Fur-farming in Canada
Year: 1914 (1910s)
Authors: Canada. Commission of Conservation. Committee on Fisheries, Game and Fur-bearing Animals Jones, J. Walter
Subjects: Fur-bearing animals
Publisher: Ottawa, The Mortimer Co.
Contributing Library: NCSU Libraries
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the critical period of whelping and rearing theyoung. The keepers own character and disposition will have muchto do with the success with shy and nervous foxes at this period. Agood manager is always studying his animals at the breeding seasonand he carefully notes the dates of mating and whelping. He treatseach pair according to their dispositions. In some cases, he separatesthe male and female before whelping and, in other cases, he leavesthem together. He must be observant, resourceful and faithful, forhe is dealing with animals which have had only several generationsof domestic breeding or possibly none at all. The critical period of each year in breeding foxes isGestJfio^n *^ between the dates January 1 and June 30. At this time, as the wild nature of some of the foxes rendersthem exceedingly sensitive to strange sights, noises and smells, allranches are closed to every one but the keepers. All domestic animalsare kept at a distance from even the outer fence. Strangers are warned
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1. Fox Kittens Two Weeks Old u_,„^ 2 A Three-quarters Black Fox Badly Frightened; No HidingCover to Retreat Into3. Keeping Watch on the Strangers 4. A North Shore (Que.) Fox in August FOX-FARMING IN CANADA 47 not to approach the ranch premises on pain of being fined for trespass.In New Brunswick, Prince Edward Island and Quebec, laws havebeen passed making it an offence punishable by a heavy fine to approachnear a fur ranch.* The keeper should move cautiously and quietly about the penswhen feeding. He should have a post of observation from which hecan see the pens and yet not be seen. A dark chamber with a hiddenapproach and a small window to look through may serve. From thispost an experienced breeder can ascertain when mating occurs. At theearliest, whelping will take place fifty days after mating, though it maybe fifty-two days, or, in rare instances, fiftj^-three or fifty-four days,especially with the first litter. Fifty-one days is the usual period ofgestation. If the keeper pl

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