Sharon Fazi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote
>I recently purchased an unusual colored adult female gerbil at a pet shop.
> She is black from her ears forward and from her hips back. In between
>her ears and hips she is dark brown (not agouti), a lighter shade of black
>with a hint of brown. She has a brown spot one-half cm diameter
>between her eyes. She has about 15 white hairs between her ears. She
>has the white on her front paws and on her chin like a black would. No
>white on the tip of her tail. She came from a litter of two male agouti, one
>female agouti, one female black (possibly spotted) and her. I don't know
>what the parents were. She may be pregnant from her brothers. What
>color is she? What would her genecode be? What color mate should I
>get for her or her pups so as not to loose this unusual anomaly?
She is spotted. Spotting can change the other colours. Also young
gerbils do not always have their adult colour and your gerbil may be in
the middle of the moult to adult colour. I would wait a few weeks to see
what happens.
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Julian
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National Gerbil Society
http://www.gerbils.co.uk/
