Hi Rachel,
I know the white chin -- and I believe the socks, too -- is a normal
variation of the self colored (aa) gerbils. Both my slate and nutmeg
have the white chin (and their two pups both did two). The white chin
on the slate is a spot and on the nutmeg a line that goes pretty far
down.
When I first got the slate I thought it meant he had the spotted Sp
gene, but no -- a white chinned gerbil is spsp.
-- Donna
Rachel Wall wrote:
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> Okay, my gerbils recently had a litter of five pups. Two of the
> pups are male and normal golden agouti like their parents. Yet the
> other three are black females. I know what you're thinking: so what?
> Well, each of the three black females have little white socks on their
> feet and a white stripe that starts at their chin and goes down to the
> bottomof their neck. I've never seen that kind of coloration before.
> Has anyone else? Could this possibly be a new breed, if not, clue me
> in! :)
>
> -Rachel and the rest of the Puji Puji gang,
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