george champlin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote
>I would like to thank everyone for their wonderful
>emails but i hate to inform everyone but when i went
>to the pet store this morning i was informed that
>Tripod died overnight and that the other gerbils were
>eating him. I almost cried.....i think i am going to
>tell them that any time they have a injured or
>deformed gerbils to call me. Well we bought three
>gerbils for my daughter they are called Chocolate
>Chip,Brownie,and creamy. I was wondering if these
>gerbils who are from the same litter mate would there
>be mutations. Or is it best if you are going to breed
>to buy a male and female from seperate litters
>
The simple answer is that any breeding could result in undesirable
characteristics showing up. The chances of this happening increase with
the degree of inbreeding. One generation of inbreeding almost never
results in problems, but unfortunately, if you have bought from a pet
shop you will not know how inbred these gerbils were before you got
them.
--
Julian
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
National Gerbil Society
http://www.gerbils.co.uk/
