I apologize for forwarding from another list, but this person isn't getting much help from the other list. The other list is less active and less experienced. Maybe someone can e-mail directly to anwer the questions and give instruction to subscribe to this list. > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > I have a few questions. The first one is > one of our female gerbils seems to be having trouble with her right hind leg. > When we first got her we already had the two males and another female. I > wanted to put them together according to color but the male I wanted to put > this one with was unaccepting of her. The other one accepted her very well. > However, a few days later she started favoring her right hind leg. I was > worried but didn't think much of it. Figured it was probably a minor injury > from being chased around the cage from the unaccepting male. After a week or > two she started doing good on it again and has been ever since until about > two weeks ago when she started favoring the same leg again. She's been > starting to put more weight on it for about the last week or so but she still > tends to do more hopping than actual walking. I have a couple ideas about it > but I don't know how acurate they could be. My first one is maybe it's > something genetic(like leg problems run in the family) and the second is > could it be something permanant from the chasing that will just kick in once > in a while. > My second question is(I've gotten an idea on this one but it doesn't seem > to fit). I'm concerned about two of our cages. One of them seems to get > smaller babies in it. I know it can't be something genetic because I've had > both pairs of gerbils in it and whichever pair is in that one cage always has > smaller babies than the pair in the other cage. I've washed both cages since > we discovered this was happening and not one thing changed. I just don't > know what is wrong. I could be worrying about the wrong cage but I don't > know. I wish I had some measurements for you in comparison to the difference > in size of the babies at the same age so that maybe you could tell me which > was "right" and which was "wrong". > My last question is when a female is too old for breeding will she just > stop on her own or do you have to separate the pair? > If you or anyone else has any ideas/answers to any/all of these questions, > I would very,very much appreciate hearing them. Once again I thank you very > much for answering me. I look forward to any suggestions you may have for > me. Thanks again. Gotta go now. See ya around. Bye! > > Sincerly, > Kerri
