On Tue, 13 Mar 2001 23:22:03 EST, you wrote:
>Well, I'm a little late in getting this piece of news out, but apparently my
>first litter (just two of the little critters) died. I know that sounds like
>I don't care at all, but it happened a few days ago, so I've had time to get
>over it (and besides that, they were only 2 days old, so I didn't even have
>enough time to grow attached to the poor things!)...anyway, do the parents
>usually eat their young if the babies die? I was checking on them the other
>day, and the babies were nowhere to be found. I didn't want to be too
>intrusive, so I let it go for a little while, and when I came back, I checked
>again. Nothing. I was still afraid to do anything, because I didn't want to
>upset them if their babies WERE hidden somewhere else, but by the next day, I
>was really worried. So I picked their bedding apart piece by piece, and
>there were no babies. Nothing! The only thing I could assume from it all
>was that the parents must have eaten them. Unfortunately, I don't know if
>the babies were alive or dead, but I would think they had died....
>
I am not an expert or anything and I have been lucky so far, with the
4 litters my gerbs have had, only 1 dead, about 3 or 4 days after
the birth, and well I had to pick to poor cold thing out of the nest,
the parents did not eat it, but they did bury it.
