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69-521: (Redirected from Silver Fox ) [REDACTED] Look up silver fox in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Silver fox or Silver Fox may refer to: Animals [ edit ] Silver fox (animal) , a melanistic form of the red fox Arts and entertainment [ edit ] Silver Fox (character) , in Marvel Comics "Silver Fox",

138-496: A clear contrast to the dense and short undercoat, which is quite light-colored, slightly shaded blue at the bottom. High-quality and large blue fox pelts come from Poland, they are similar to the good Norwegian ones. Because the guard hair is often particularly dense, they are perfect for dyeing. In 1988, the range consisted of one third each of extra large, large, and medium or small pelts. The main colors were pale, medium, dark and extra dark. Compared to other breeds, there were only

207-404: A few days, the two mutations were easy to distinguish, one remained pure white, the other had the characteristic markings and color of the platinum fox. Farmed blue foxes have a completely different hair structure to their wild ancestors. The wool fleece is thinner and the hair thickness is greater. The color is also different. The base of the coat is practically white and only tinged with gray in

276-524: A few sub-varieties. As with other foxes, the dressing is carried out with the fur removed in a rounded manner and not cut open. In addition to its natural color, the blue fox fur is perfect for dyeing in all colors, mainly for the textile industry in the respective fabric colors of the season, due to its light coloration, up to white, and the regular fur surface. Single dyeings in plain colors and natural tones as well as all fancy shades up to black can be produced as desired. Lead-based double dyeings allow for

345-543: A former Canadian Junior "A" ice hockey team Silver Foxes, a former name of the Kent State Golden Flashes football team Silver Fox , an LNER Class A4 steam locomotive Silver Fox, in Miwok mythology Topics referred to by the same term [REDACTED] This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title Silver fox . If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change

414-475: A fur material for a slightly flared coat in European size 46 (as of 2014). The maximum and minimum fur amount can result from the different sizes of the sexes of the animals, the age groups and their origin. Depending on the type of fur, these three factors have different effects. As with most types of fur, every piece of fur from the blue fox is used. Fox pieces, fox belly parts and fox paw plates are made from

483-542: A limited extent. When exposed to strong light, especially in the high mountains, the hair fades or yellows relatively quickly and then contrasts unattractively with the original shade of the garments that have not come into contact with the light. Entirely natural products are considerably less sensitive to sunlight. Blue fox-like refinements were found on red fox, white fox, American opossum, hare, rabbit, flying squirrel and lynx fur. The processing does not differ significantly from that of other noble fox species, just as all

552-473: A meagre remnant”, while the white foxes remained almost unharmed (according to Georg Steller ). The same shifts caused by this targeted hunting can also be observed in the Siberian Arctic Ocean region. One of the areas most populated by arctic foxes is the west coast of Greenland. In the past, 7 white foxes were caught for every 10 blue foxes. In 1961 it was stated: “For some time now, however,

621-476: A moral lesson, portraying the silver fox as a wise being and creator of sorts while suggesting the coyote as a lazy, greedy and impulsive animal. Similarly, the silver fox has often been represented on totem poles. The silver fox also appears as a symbol on the Prince Edward Island coat of arms. In the late 1800s, the rare silver fox was native to the region, and its pelt was highly valued around

690-604: A more carnivorous diet when meat is available. When meat is scarce, they rely more heavily on plant material. Like the red morph, the silver fox adapts different strategies when hunting different prey. When hunting smaller mammals, the foxes adopt a "mousing position" from which they can locate prey based on sound. They launch themselves, pin prey to the ground using their forepaws, and kill it by biting. Quicker terrestrial prey requires more practiced behaviour, often involving stalking and rapid pursuit. When prey escapes to hidden caches or burrows, foxes are known to occasionally nap beside

759-416: A myth about two creators: the wise silver fox stemming from fog and the amoral trickster coyote from the clouds. The myth reveals that while the coyote slept, the silver fox used its hair combings to create landmasses. It then thought of trees, rocks, fruits, and other resources, and created those too. However, the coyote could not employ self-control and ate everything up at will after it awoke. The story tells

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828-628: A number of factors contribute to their breeding success. These include age, food, population density, and the mating system ( polygyny or monogamy ). Higher population density leads to a higher incidence of failure in producing pups. Silver foxes have litters that typically range from 1 to 14 pups, with the average being 3 to 6 pups. Litter size generally increases with age and abundance of food. Scientists have observed an increase in reproductive success with age in silver fox morphs, which may be attributable to yearlings breeding an average of nine days after adults. Success in larger litters depends highly on

897-512: A play of colors between the upper hair and undercoat. For middle range shades using metal complex dyes , the required heat resistance is achieved by chrome tanning of leather. Dark shades can be produced with good coverage using oxidation dyes, usually based on a chrome potash stain. Pastel variations are created using acid dyes from the Alizarin group by reason of lightfastness. Blueing, also known as white dyeing, should only be carried out to

966-595: A purposeful crossbreeding of wild and bred animals, initially of purely Greenlandic origin. The pure silver comes from the Icelandic fox, the abundant, short, smooth and soft upper hair and the dense, strong undercoat from the Svalbard fox and the clear blue color from the Jan Mayen fox. In addition, the body length has now increased by 15 to 20 centimetres (6 to 8 in) due to constant breeding selection. In America,

1035-521: A result, the breed has been significantly improved so that the pelts fetch a good price. Around 500 animals are now killed there every year. Blue foxes are now also bred on various other islands on the coast of Alaska in so-called fox farms, for which the land is leased from the government for a very nominal sum. These ventures are paying off very well. About 3000 to 4000 blue foxes from the Alaskan coast are now traded to London every year, but this number

1104-501: A song by RJD2 from the 2002 album Deadringer Military [ edit ] Operation Silver Fox , a German-Finnish World War II military campaign BAE Systems Silver Fox , an unmanned aerial vehicle People with the nickname [ edit ] Ayaz Memon (born 1955), Indian sports writer Basdeo Panday (born 1933), former actor and Prime Minister of Trinidad and Tobago Anderson Cooper (born 1967), CNN News anchor Barbara Bush (1925–2018), former first lady of

1173-456: A symbol for the ingenuity and perseverance involved in the industry. The silver fox has also been represented in different forms of media. On television, in films, and in comic books, Silver Fox is a character in the Wolverine superhero series. In cartoon, the characters Scarface and Lady Blue from TV animated series The Animals of Farthing Wood are silver foxes. The term silver fox

1242-484: Is 10 to 25 thalers per piece." In parts of northern America, blue fox pelts were still “almost a kind of fur money in a barter trade with the native Eskimos” around 1900. In Thule, Greenland, Inuit women still wore full-body furs made of blue fox in the 1920s, which were made of 14 pelts and were worth the “considerable” value of 7000 Danish crowns at the time. Almost at the same time as the silver foxes, blue foxes also began to be bred (1890s), but breeding did not reach

1311-463: Is also a fur commodity. The blue fox, an arctic fox variant, is considered more valuable than the matted and smaller fur of the white fox. Almost white blue foxes with only a slightly darker middle of the fur are traded as shadow foxes; pure white fur is usually sold to the end consumer as white fox, like that of the arctic fox. In the jargon of the fur trade industry, the dark, bluish winter furs of all types are referred to as "blue", not just those of

1380-531: Is dark black-brown and usually slightly browner than the winter coat. The moulting process often begins towards the end of the rut period and is particularly visible on the coats of pregnant females. The first hair falls out on the shoulders. The winter coat begins to form in August. The fur of young blue and white foxes from the wild is initially completely dark; Russian fur hunters call this age group nornik (“cave dweller”). The late summer pelts are lighter on

1449-431: Is expected to increase considerably soon. Also from northern Siberia come blue foxes of good quality and color, large pelts, but somewhat dull in color. I have not been able to determine the exact number, but there are probably no more than a few thousand a year. Almost all of the pelts coming from the polar region to Seattle and San Francisco stay in the country. The value of a blue fox is 60 to 200 RM per piece, depending on

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1518-405: Is unusually long and dense, measures in some places five centimetres (two inches) and is exceedingly fine. It surrounds the whole body even to the tail, where it is a little coarser and woollier. The fur is shortest on the forehead and limbs, and is finer on the fox's underbelly. When viewed individually, the hairs composing the belly fur exhibit a wavy appearance. There are scarcely any long hairs on

1587-447: Is used to describe an attractive older man, specifically one who has (or is beginning to show) grey hair. The name "Silver Fox" was used on LNER A4 steam locomotive no 2512 (later BR no 60017), designed by Sir Nigel Gresley . Blue fox fur Blue fox fur is a type of fur obtained from the arctic fox (most specifically, its blue variant). The other of the two zoological morphs is called white fox, whose fur (the white fox fur)

1656-418: The fabulous wealth of furs , which far exceeded that of Siberia. The most important beneficiary was the merchant Gregor Schelechow from Okhotsk. From his very first visit, he brought back 17 tons of walrus teeth, 8 tons of fish glue, 2000 beaver pelts, 4000 sea otter pelts and 6000 blue fox pelts. The wife of Henry II of France, Catherine de Medici (1519–1589), owned a very expensive blue fox fur coat during

1725-492: The former Soviet Union , silver foxes occur mostly in forest zones and forest–tundra belts, particularly in middle and eastern Siberia and the Caucasus mountains. They are very rare in steppes and deserts. In the richness and beauty of its splendid fur the silver-grey Fox surpasses the beaver or sea otter, and the skins are indeed so highly esteemed that the finest command extraordinary prices, and are always in demand. For

1794-783: The "blue" foxes, in contrast to "red", the lighter and therefore usually less valued color variants of the same fur type. The fur trade classifies the blue fox fur among the so-called noble fox furs, such as the silver fox fur, the arctic fox fur and the cross fox fur. The blue fox pelts from wild-caught specimens are around 50 to 65 cm (19.7 to 25.6 in) long, and the tails are 25 to 35 cm (9.8 to 13.7 in) long. The pelts of male foxes are only slightly larger than those of female ones. Pelts from breeding farms are considerably larger. The long and very silky-like hair varies from blue-brown and lightest “café au lait” to light blue-grey and deep dark brown, sometimes almost black with shades of rusty red and loamy-dirty, sometimes with silver hair. The summer coat

1863-633: The Alaska type is usually bred, in Norway and Finland a very light-colored blue fox type, in Sweden the Alaska and Greenland types (as noted in 1988). Blue foxes from Norway have been traded as a separate fox type under the name Norwegian Blue Fox since 2017. They originate from a cross between the Alaskan blue fox and the Arctic blue fox. The type is characterized by a short, blue and black-tipped upper hair with

1932-741: The Aleutian Islands, Amilia Island and the Cascade Mountains to let them develop there, initially in the wild. In 1885, the Semidi Propagation Co. of Kodiak began farm breeding with ten pairs of wild animals living on the Pribilof Islands , which were brought to Chowiet Island, later known as South Semidi Island, off the coast of Alaska for breeding. The company itself was not financially successful, but by supplying other islands with breeding stock, it laid

2001-546: The Fromms' had was over 20 pounds (9.1 kg). Silver foxes in Russian fur farms are of North American stock, and are selectively bred in order to remove as much brown from the fur as possible, as the presence of brown fur lowers the pelt's value. Estonia began farming silver foxes in 1924, after receiving 2,500 foundation specimens from Norway to Mustajõe farm. The numbers of Estonian silver fox farms steadily increased in

2070-645: The Second World War in 1939/40, fashion turned away from longhair fur (in Germany only at the beginning of the currency reform in 1948) and the era of the karakul and later the mink began. It was not until around the 1960s that blue fox breeding began to increase again As with other types of fur, the appetite for blue fox fur has changed over the years. Before 1940, there was still a demand for particularly dark, technically blue, foxes. In 1970, Fritz Schmidt described

2139-740: The USA. A well-known silver fox ranch of North America was that of Fred Colpitts from Salisbury, New Brunswick . Known as the "Colpitts Brothers", Fred and James raised silver foxes in the early 1920s and used selective breeding to refine the fox colour. Fred developed the Platinum fox (a colour variation of the silver fox) that was recognized for its unique colour and markings worldwide. These Platinum foxes brought top dollar from sales in Montreal , New York and London, with one pair of foxes selling for $ 5000, and winning major awards at shows across Canada ,

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2208-1061: The United States Peter Costa (poker player) (born 1956), British poker player Mel Judah (born 1947), Australian poker player Ed Kelly (born 1948), Irish-American former soccer player Jim Northrup (baseball) (1939–2011), American Major League Baseball player Jesse Petty (1894–1971), American Major League Baseball pitcher Charlie Rich (1932–1995), American singer Ray Knight (born 1952), American baseball player, manager and broadcaster David Pearson (racing driver) (1934–2018), NASCAR driver Duke Snider (1926–2011), American baseball player Robert L. Stephens (1921–1984), United States Air Force test pilot David Taylor (snooker player) (born 1943), English snooker player Eduard Shevardnadze (1928–2014), Soviet politician and former president of Georgia Chase Utley (born 1978), American baseball player Other uses [ edit ] Silver Fox Island , Newfoundland, Canada Regina Silver Foxes ,

2277-404: The availability of extra-parental care via the assistance of unmated females. This is especially the case in higher density populations, where some females fail to produce pups. Silver foxes engage in a system of bi-parental care, which is associated with their seasonal monogamous mating scheme. For a given litter, males contribute a large investment in the offspring by both feeding and protecting

2346-529: The breeding months of December to April, and most matings occur in January and February. Female silver foxes are monestrous (having one estrus cycle per year) with estrus lasting 1–6 days and parturition occurring after about 52 days of gestation . During or approaching estrus, the vulva of silver foxes increases in size and tumescence , indicating the sexual readiness or condition of the fox. Female silver foxes generally breed during their first autumn, but

2415-404: The colours of mixed foxes blend rather than segregate. The blended offspring of a silver and red fox is known as a cross fox . Dark colour in the Alaskan silver fox is caused by a mutation to MC1R , while in the standard silver fox the dark colour is caused by a recessive mutation to agouti . Red foxes, including the silvery form, are one of the most widely distributed carnivorous species in

2484-477: The den. While the pups are early in development, the male secures food for the nursing vixen. Whereas males are more vigilant in defending the den, females also defend their offspring aggressively. In captivity, differential reproductive success can be attributed to variation in the competition capacity among individual females. Competition capacity is defined as the ability of individuals to dominate resources such as food or nesting sites. The competition capacity of

2553-401: The ears, which are thickly clothed with fur. The soles of the feet are so thickly covered with woolly hair that no callous spots are visible. Silver foxes tend to be more cautious than red foxes. When bred with another member of the same colour morph, silver foxes will produce silver-coated offspring, with little variation in this trend after the third generation. When mated to pure red foxes,

2622-595: The entrances and lie in wait for prey to reemerge. The domesticated silver fox is a form of the silver fox which has been domesticated —to some extent—under laboratory conditions. Domesticated silver foxes are the result of an experiment which was designed to demonstrate the power of selective breeding to transform species, as described by Charles Darwin in On the Origin of Species . The experiment explored whether selection for behaviour rather than morphology may have been

2691-565: The following decades. During the Soviet period, the silver fox industry boomed due to government subsidies and a focus on selectively breeding foxes for greater fertility than fur quality. The silver fox morph is behaviourally similar to the red morph. One common behaviour is scent marking . This behaviour is used as a display of dominance , but may also be used to communicate the absence of food from foraging areas as well as social records. Silver foxes exist in seasonally monogamous pairs for

2760-563: The foundation for blue fox breeding in Alaska. The actual upswing began in 1916, after the temporary reduction in demand caused by the First World War. In 1911, Emil Brass reported on blue foxes on the Pribilof Islands of St. Paul and St. George , among others. The native foxes kept free-range there are "large and well colored. The animals are properly bred there and only the best specimens are allowed to breed... As

2829-612: The foxes' monogamous habits and permitted their studs to mate for life with a single female, contributing to their success. The fur of captive-bred foxes was of better quality than that of free-ranging ones (worth $ 500–1,000 rather than $ 20–30) because of improved care and diet. These silver foxes were bred strictly with members of their own colour morph, and by the third generation, all residual traces of red or cross ancestry disappeared. The silver fox price boom in North America ended in 1914, but by 1921, there were 300 farms throughout

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2898-534: The introduction of the fur sewing machine before 1900, often in the fur-saving taping technique. The shape of the pelts can be altered as desired with the so-called letting out . Narrow V- or A-shaped cuts are used to cut the pelts to any desired length at the expense of the width, right down to a floor-length evening coat. In times when sheared and plucked furs were fashionable, foxes were repeatedly sheared for this look without much commercial success. As with other types of fur, sheared fox furs are now usually given

2967-407: The ladies with greater ambitions inaugurate their first silver fox collars.“ Blue fox breeding developed very slowly, the relatively large supply from the wild kept the price of fur low, and despite larger litters, breeding proved more difficult than that of the silver fox. Today, the furs come mainly from Scandinavia, Poland, the former Soviet Union area and North America. With the beginning of

3036-426: The link to point directly to the intended article. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Silver_fox&oldid=1211802218 " Categories : Disambiguation pages Nicknames Hidden categories: Short description is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages Silver fox (animal) Historically, silver foxes were among

3105-416: The lower area. The guard hairs’ ends show a more or less bluish-brown coloration. In the trade, individuals caught in the wild are divided according to their origin: The durability coefficient for fine fox fur is given as 50 to 60 percent. When fur animals are divided into the fineness categories , among which are silky, fine, medium-fine, coarser and hard, blue fox hair is classified as fine. Only

3174-539: The most valued fur-bearers, and their pelts were frequently worn by nobles in Russia, Western Europe, and China. Wild silver foxes do not naturally reproduce exclusively with members of the same coat morph and can be littermates with the common red variety, although captive populations bred for the blue fox fur and as pets are almost exclusively mated with members of the same colour. The silver fox's long outer hair can extend as much as five centimetres (two inches) beyond

3243-427: The mother directly influences the fitness of her offspring. In one experiment where vixens (whose competition capacities were categorized as high, medium, or low) were bred under standard farming conditions, competition capacity was positively associated with the number of healthy offspring raised to weaning. The findings have led to the use of competition capacity as a more encompassing measure of reproductive fitness for

3312-544: The mountainous regions of Pennsylvania and the wilder portions of New York . They were occasionally found in Nova Scotia and New Brunswick. According to Sir John Richardson , it was uncommon for trappers to collect more than 4–5 silver foxes in any one season, in areas where silver foxes were present, despite the trappers' tendency to prioritize them above all other fur-bearers once they were discovered. Silver foxes comprise up to 8% of Canada 's red fox population. In

3381-513: The name “velvet” or “soft”, i.e. velvet fox or soft fox. A shearing height of around 14 to 18 millimetres (0.55 to 0.70 in) is recommended for blue fox. In 1965, the consumption for a fur plate sufficient for a blue fox coat was given as 14 to 16 larger or 17 to 20 smaller furs (so-called bodies , i.e. semi-finished products). This was based on a plate with a length of 112 centimeters (44 in) and an average width of 150 centimeters (59 in) and an additional sleeve part. This corresponds approximately to

3450-616: The natives of New England to be worth more than 40 American beaver skins. A chieftain accepting a gift of silver fox furs was seen as an act of reconciliation. The records of the Hudson's Bay Company indicate that 19–25% of fox skins traded in British Columbia in the years 1825–1850 were silver, as were 16% of those traded in Labrador. The fur was almost always sold to Russian and Chinese traders. The silver fur of this fox

3519-440: The new type of fox: “A fox that is well covered from the head to the end of the tail with soft and pure-colored guard hairs, which must have a black tail tip for the desired contrast effect. Its color ranges from very light to deep dark blue or blue-grey with a white or strongly blue-toned undercoat, and a mostly widespread silvering completes the soft, silky character of this coat." The Greenland type came closest to these ideas, with

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3588-462: The peak price period of blue fox fur. The blue fox fur has always been considered more valuable than the fur of the white fox, only in the 1920s did the white fox also experience a heyday as a glamorous piece of clothing. In some areas, the targeted hunting of the blue fox led to the former balance shifting in favor of the white fox. Around 1742, almost only blue foxes were captured on Bering Island , which led to their population being destroyed “down to

3657-437: The pelt to be considered of suitable quality, certain criteria must be met: There must be a section of glossy black fur on the neck with a bluish cast. The silvery hairs must contain pure bands that are neither white nor prominent. The most valued furs had an even distribution of silvery hair, as patches of silvery hair gave the coat a flaky appearance, which was considered undesirable. The fur must have "silkiness", which refers to

3726-403: The process that had produced dogs from wolves , by recording the changes in foxes when in each generation only the most tame foxes were allowed to breed. Many of the descendant foxes became both tamer and more dog-like in morphology, including displaying mottled or spotted coloured fur. The silver fox appears in the stories of many cultures. The Achomawi people of Northern California tell

3795-438: The processing and usage of silver fox fur and arctic fox fur for the production of the once so popular animal-shaped fur scarves. Blue fox pelts are processed into all types of fur clothing, mainly for trimmings, scarves, muffs and fur stoles. In Western Europe, the pelts are still mainly used for trimmings on garments and small items, until around the 1970s more frequently, today still occasionally for coats and jackets, and since

3864-701: The quality." In 1926, there were six groups of Alaska Islands on which blue foxes were bred. The first group was formed by the islands southeast of Alaska or the Alexander Archipelago ; the second group was on Prince William Sound , the third in Lower Cook Inlet, the fourth in the Kodiak-Afognak District, the fifth on the Alaska Peninsula itself and the sixth on the Aleutian Islands. At that time, however, it

3933-607: The ratio has been 5:5. The white fox has always predominated on the east coast. Catch result is 2 blue foxes to 10 white foxes”. The Russian Arctic Research Institute observed on the Commander Islands that “big” blue fox years with unusual numbers of animals occur about every four years. In 1858, a Russian decree ordered the killing of all white foxes while at the same time restricting the hunting of blue foxes. The first commercial interest in blue fox fur emerged in 1835 when Russians brought blue foxes to Kiska Island in

4002-432: The resulting cubs will be fiery red in overall coat colour, and will have blacker markings on the belly, neck and points than average red foxes. When one fiery red fox of such a pedigree is mated with a silver one, the litter is almost always 50% silver and 50% red, manifesting as a Mendelian incomplete dominant trait. Fiery red parents may occasionally produce a silver cub, the usual proportion being one in four. Occasionally,

4071-550: The same level until the Second World War. The Italian fashion writer Irene Brin recalls the appearance of Marlene Dietrich at the bar in Colony, dressed in the first red fox coat to be seen in public: “It was only a few years ago, in 1932, that people began to wear light-colored foxes, which in spring replaced the traditional mole stoles, pine marten stoles or stone marten scarves: and now everyone wants two whole foxes with their muzzles side by side and their paws tied together, while

4140-406: The shorter underfur on different parts of the fox's body, particularly under the throat, behind the shoulders, on the sides and the tail. The hair of the underfur is brown at the base, and silver-grey tipped with black further along the follicle. The hair is soft, glossy and was once reputed to be finer than that of the pine marten . The uniformly blackish brown or chocolate coloured underfur, which

4209-530: The sides, belly and legs, while the dark gray shade remains on the neck, shoulders and back, where it creates a cross-like pattern. These pelts are known as krestowatik (“cross-bearers”). In 1960, the first cases of white foxes being born in Poland were recorded, and their systematic breeding was pursued further. Such animals are also said to have occurred in Norway. The young foxes that appeared in Poland were probably two genetically different mutations. After just

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4278-515: The silver fox, and the revelation that some vixens engage in infanticide . The vixens generated more weaned cubs during their next reproductive cycle than those who did not engage in infanticide. This may suggest the conservation of efforts or investment to increase future reproductive success. Infanticidal vixens infrequently adopt and help to raise the young of neighboring vixens after eating their own. While silver foxes are opportunistic feeders and will consume any food presented to them, they prefer

4347-406: The softness of the fur, and was judged by a client running his hand over the pelt. The coat must have a sheen, which reflects the health of the coat and the animal from which it came, as well as the finesse of the hairs. The fur must weigh at least one pound, with value increasing along with size. Heavy fur is considered to be more durable and handsome. The fur of a silver fox was once considered by

4416-418: The two brothers sold foxes for breeding stock throughout North America . In the 1930s, scientific advances led to increases in fox health. The Fromm brothers funded the development of the distemper vaccine and vitamin D tablets to prevent the foxes from getting rickets. They also allowed the foxes to roam relatively free as they would otherwise damage their pelts and they were fed daily. The largest silver fox

4485-404: The winter pelts of both blue and white foxes are traded. Hunting and trapping of young specimens in their summer coat is prohibited. General hunting and trapping bans for arctic foxes have existed in Sweden since 1928, in Norway and Finland since 1930. The fur trader Stepan Glotov managed to reach the coast of Alaska via the islands of Unalaska and Umnak in 1759. Others soon followed to exploit

4554-486: The world, ranging over much of the northern hemisphere and Australia . Their abundance in a wide variety of habitats can be attributed to introduction by humans into new habitats for fox-hunting. In North America , silver foxes occur mostly in the northeastern part of the continent. In the 19th century, silver foxes were sometimes collected from Labrador , the Magdalen Islands , and they were rarely taken from

4623-525: The world. Scientific developments for breeding fur-bearing animals took place on the island. Fur farming became an important part of the 20th century economy of the province and Wisconsin. The Fromm brothers started their fur trading company in Central Wisconsin in the 1930s, which led to the development of the distemper vaccine. The silver fox has come to symbolize the wit and wisdom of the islanders. Its fur-breeding history resulted in its status as

4692-669: Was already becoming apparent that enclosure breeding was probably less costly than island breeding. Among other things, breeders were not only losing foxes to birds of prey, but it became apparent that the foxes were good swimmers and disappeared to nearby islands or the mainland. In 1801, Buse wrote about blue foxes: “Their rarity makes them worthy of appreciation. Their hair reflects a beautiful shine.” And about their use and value: “...White ones are used to lining Hungarian furs. ... Blue ones are used to make furs and lapels for ladies. Because of their high price, they are only used by rich and distinguished people ... The current value of these furs

4761-698: Was the most sought-after pelt due to its colour and style. In 1830, the allele frequency for a silver pelt was at 15% but due to overhunting, this number had fallen to 5% in 1930. The silver pelt is still hunted for and the population of foxes with this silver pelt continues to fall. Before the practice of fur farming was eventually refined on Prince Edward Island , it was standard practice to release free-ranging silver foxes into small islands, where they quickly starved to death. Fur farmers on Prince Edward Island gained success by breeding and caring for their foxes in captivity. Charles Dalton and Robert Oulton began crossbreeding experiments in 1894. The farmers recognized

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