In a message dated 3/1/00 9:14:50 AM Pacific Standard Time,
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<< I've noticed most black pieds are heavily pied, and have splashes
of white on their back and rump. However, my pied agouti and her
pied agouti baby never had that, and I've never seen any other
heavily pied color with splashed. I thought maybe it was genetic,
but it can't be. Anybody know?
Paige McDonald
The Hanson Clan
Breeder of rare gerbil colors as well as common colors.
http://members.xoom.com/paigemcd/gerbils
http://members.xoom.com/paigemcd/gerbils/pups.htm
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Paige,
Well, all I can tell you, is that I have black pied as well as spotted
gerbils that do not have the extensive white hairs throughout the coat, and
of course- some that do! If a pied mother has a litter (just assuming the
father has no pied/spotted genes..), we know that most likely about half of
the litter will be spotted OR pied, as in my case with one of my breeding
pairs. Some of the pied gerbils will have the extra white splotches of white
elsewhere, and other won't.. but my guess is, if you took the gerbil that had
the extensive markings and bred with him/her, some pups in those litters
would have even more extensive markings, and so on. I just think it's
something that happens with many generation of pied in the gerbil's history..
but i could be wrong (:
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