As much as I’d love too to tell you about all my experiences I simply cant, there’s just too much. At this current time, I own 16 ferrets 9male 7female, I used to keep a mechitza between them but then gave up because the bochurim just kept getting around it anyways. I would definitely getting pair of ferrets 1male & 1female, and then force them to breed that way when they have kids you feel like they’re your kids as well (you’re then free to do whatever you’d like with the original parents, I flushed them)
Advice #2 give them cute silly names, like curly, jimbo, tobias, or shmendrik, honestly whatever you come up with.
Advice #3 If you get the point where your breeders are popping out with 3or more babies a week, and you happen to be low on cash, your local Asian market is always looking for fresh rat alternatives and theyre more then willing to pay good money for some nice Ferret specimen, you do feel a bit bad because they are like your babies, but hey, $20 is $20🤷🏻♂️
Good luck with your decision(the correct decision is Ferret, never ever ever get a gerbil!
You’re achi