Since we then had some NZW bucks to breed, the pressure was off about trying to find breeding age bucks and I had some time to think over what we would need to start working toward breeding Silver Foxes only. In purebred Silver Foxes, I had one difficult-to-breed Blue SF doe, Misty Blue, who was turning four years old just before Thanksgiving Day, and one junior Black SF buck, Comet, that would not be ready to breed until the end of January at the earliest and that is being hopeful. Not a very good start!  For one, it was questionable that Misty Blue would even be able to get pregnant. She had more than a year off from breeding, which might have worked against her being ready to be bred, and then there was her age...perhaps she is too old to get pregnant? Then there was the common difficulty I had with her in accepting a breeding and this time with the inexperienced young buck Comet, when he was ready. The odds were not in my favor, but having offspring from Misty Blue w...