Paige McDonald <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote
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>Julian and Jackie wrote:
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>> <Renee> <Braden> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote
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>> >How do you tell the difference between slate and black?
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>> Slates have brown nails whilst blacks have black nails. This does not
>> work if the gerbil has white markings as the nails will then be clear.
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>Do you mean hairs of white like almost all blacks/slates have or do you mean
>spotted/pieds? I need the same question answered for my female, but she has
>white
>hairs with no spotting/pied gene so I'd like to know.
>
>Paige
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I meant genetically white marked, like pied, patched etc.
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Julian
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