On Thu, 13 Jan 2000 16:23:26 EST, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
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>Taliah had her 3rd litter today! :O) 5 cutie pies :O)
>
>I have a few ?s though:
>
>1) one of the pups has its umbilical cord still attached as well as the
>placenta, which has a ton of shavings stuck to it and really seems to weigh
>the pup down--T has made no attempt to chewit off as of yet, sooo what do I
>do? do I leave it on and hope it allfalls off, or should I at least try to
>cut the shaving covered placenta off?
>
Yes, but be careful! Don't tear it off, or the pup might bleed to dead. You
can cut it with your nails, if they are long enough. Cut through the cord,
maybe you can use a nailclipper, if it doesn't work with your nails.
It might be that the pup is not OK, though, that might be the reason for
the mother not to take care for her. But it might also be that the mother
is too tired.
>2) I put a divider in yesterday evening b/c I didn't think she would be
>having pups so soon (she hadn't made a nest or anything and I didn't see
>very much movement of the puppers inside), I have the daddy, boys from st
>litter and boys from 2nd litter allon one side---they will be either getting
>theyre own tank or leaving (cept for Zorion and one of his boys ;) ---- mommy
>and the girls onthe other side (right now i have the girls out b/c they were
>too excited about the pups and 2 of them i found across the tank freezing
>cold--so now T's up there sleeping w/ her new babies all cozy,warm ,and fed;)
>anyway: the divider is only temporary so when she comes into heat again she
>wont mate, but I cant make the wire mesh divider until the weekend b/c my dad
>is busy all week--will it be ok to leave these guys like this for a while?
>
Sounds OK to me, but be aware that the gerbils could mate through mesh
wire! :-)
This is known in mice.
>3) I am still stumped about the color of Meg's lil girls, they still have the
>coloring they did when they were pups (the greyish color mixed in w/
>black--see my website in my signature for pictures), they have dark nails and
>theyre heads and tails seem to be dark (almost black--well their tails are
>definate black and the heads are black w/ just a little bit of the grey,
>compared to whats on theyre body)
>their bellies definately have the most grey you can see it w/o looking for
>the color when they stand up on their hind legs---any ideas anyone? genetics
>unknown since both parents were petstore gerbies but Meg is nutmeg and Mo is
>black pied--pretty sure he's the daddy ;O) (ill have recent pics up as soon
>as i can)
I'm not sure what pictures to look at. Could they be just black, but
molding. They often look partly greyish at that point.
Karin.
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