Mary McDermott <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote
>Sorry I didn't use a charter code for this question, I didn't know witch
>charter code would be for color questions. Anyway, I have gerbil that I
>don't know if its pied or patched. I have two pied gerbils that have white
>on their forehead, the tip of the tail, belly, collar, and paws. But I have
>a sapphire/dove gerbil that has white in same places expect it has a BIG
>patch of white on its back and butt. It has a lot more white on it then
>gray, would this be a patched one? Or a pied?
>
> ~~~( 3:> Mary <:3 )~~~
In the UK patched was a term for gerbils with less white than pied. The
conclusive feature was that pied gerbils had to have a collar.
This has been changed now. In the UK the pied standard covers all
gerbils that do not have the "classic" markings (ie spots on only the
nose, forehead, neck and tip of tail.
--
Julian
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