Any other ideas anyone (on colours)
Hi Sarah -- I have had very good luck in introducing male and females when they are a bit older and the hormones are kicking, you might want to try again at 10 weeks. Be careful of the bites. I had one get a nick from his father and it is infected now. I am worried he might even lose the tail. I don't know the color of the chocolate brown one. I have a CP slate that is chocolate but the nose and tail are darker. Any time you breed an agouti you could get all agouti (and with spots if you have a spotted parent). The gene predictor puts in undefined for most color points and light colorpoints (except say siamese), for example lt color point nutmeg which is a nutmeg with a chcb would be "undefined" to find out what the undefined colors are -- look up the genetics for the CC version and then add "colorpoint" to the front of the color name. Good luck to you! Donna [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hi! > I was wondering if you could help me. > Today I have acquired two new Gerbils that I have never had in those colours > before.One was an Agouti Spot but I am not sure about the other one.He is a > Dark Chocolate Brown with dark nails,black eyes and white stripes on his > paws.I was thinking possibly Burmese as that was the nearest on the Gerbil > Colour Palette.What do you think? > These two are Male and Female and I was hoping to breed them, what colours > can I expect? I went on a gerbil gene predictor program and all it said was > 89% undefined colour and 11% Agouti.Any ideas what the unspecified could be? > (I put the mystery gerbil as Burmese) > I tried putting them together earlier and they were getting on in the split > cage and as they are only 6 weeks old I thought they were ready to meet, > everything was fine until I went away for 5 minutes, when I returned the > Burmese Male had a bloody nose, a bite on his back and a bite right at the > base of the tail.I know that bites on the rump are serious so do you think > there is any hope for this pair?In all the introductions I have done this has > never happened before(some have accepted eachother without a split cage at > all and produced several litters) > I do have several young pups I could pair up with these but I am unsure > whether to do it with the female because of what she has done to this > male.What do you think? Would an older male be better? > I could place either a Black,Agouti or Grey Agouti with my Burmese Male. > which would give me the most colour possibilities? > Thanks > Sarah > P.S If anyone remembers my Tyzzers epidemic, these new Gerbils are in a > seperate building in Quarantine for a fortnight.
