Hi and welcome to the list. You might have all black
pups depending on the recessives of the black gerbil.
Here are urls to sites on predicting colors,
colors/genetics, and breeding.
Gerbil gene predictor to figure out what color pups
your pair could produce:
http://www.netxp.com/rick/gerbils/frameset.html
then click on "gene predictor"
Gerbil colors and pictures:
home.wtal.de/ehr/gerbils/colors.htmolors.htm
http://www.agsgerbils.org/Color_Strip/index.html
http://www.gurlpages.com/other/emandkel/colors.html
http://www.geocities.com/Heartland/Plains/9792/spectrum.html
http://users.bart.nl/~fredveen/colours1.htm
http://www.gerbil-info.nl.com/genetics1.htm
Breeding information:
http://www.geocities.com/Heartland/Plains/9792/how2breed.html
http://www.rodent.demon.co.uk/gerbils/gerbfaq.htm
Best of luck,
Donna
ABC Gerbils
www.abcgerbils.com
--- Tony Pottrell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hi there,
>
> I just subscribed to this list, mainly because of my
> partner who has been
> taken up by my love of gerbils and has decided to
> try and breed from our
> lonely Albino female :)
>
> What I'd like to know is are there (or are there any
> plans for) any gerbil
> shows in the South West of the UK? The only ones
> I've been able to find are
> in Enfield and the like...
>
> I'd also like to find out if there is a cheat sheet
> for predicting what the
> young may be like by looking at the two parents? I
> mentioned earlier that
> the female is an albino, the male we've managed to
> rescue (from the RSCPA,
> same place as the female) is what appears to be a
> black variety. Am I right
> in thinking the young would be Dove/Lilac? Is there
> a website somewhere
> that provides guides? (Other than the gene types,
> those things are mind
> boggling!)
>
> Thanks :)
>
> Tony Pottrell
__________________________________________________
Do You Yahoo!?
Make international calls for as low as $.04/minute with Yahoo! Messenger
http://phonecard.yahoo.com/
