a gangi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote
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>Would any fanciers on this list who have Blue gerbils be agreeable to
>sending soem blue gerbils to the USA?
As far as I know there are only five people with these gerbils, of which
one is on this list. The Blues are held in laboratory like conditions
and none have been released to even house guests yet.
I understand that the plan is not to release them until the researchers
have seen the combined effects of each other mutation on the suspected
dilute gene. This is because when they started work on the Burmese
mutation people had been breeding them to various other colours and
there was a multitude of new colours. They had to do many years work to
establish the genotype of each of these colours from heterozygous
populations which delayed them very much. This time they want to
discover each new colour for themselves using pure bred strains they
have developed.
When this is complete this mutation will be released to fanciers and I
am sure there will be several people who will help them pass across the
Atlantic. However I have no idea when this will be.
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Julian
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National Gerbil Society
http://www.gerbils.co.uk/
