On Sat, 19 Feb 2000 17:11:57 -0600, Rebecca Allbritton wrote:
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>I noticed that the pre-first molt Schimmels I have gotten from Evon (well,
>the one I got from Evon was in the process of molting) & from James Starr
>(Ridge Road gerbils -- he's not on the list) are much lighter in appearance
>than the pictures on Vera Bruckman's pages. Maybe it's the light, or the
>difference between cameras (I'm using an Olympus D220L digital camera)? I
>have two silver schimmels, which I understand is from gg. Does the c[h] or
>c[b] gene have any effect on schimmels that you know of?
I have not purposely bred those animals yet, but since one c[h] or c[b]
have an effect on ee animals, one could expect an effect on e[f]e[f]
animals as well.
> I was also
>wondering if there might be some small difference between A- & aa schimmels?
Not that I have ever noticed.
>I put 3 pictures of Asper Gillis up at the bottom of
>http://people.tamu.edu/~rda3507/schimmel.html
>
Looks like a normal schimmel to me. The animals on Vera's pictures look
somewhat darker because their fur is a little greasy, didn't took their
sand bath before being photographed! After scanning the pictures it made
them look darker.
Karin.
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