At 02:39 AM 1/11/00 -0600, Ubu Noir wrote:
>Hi, just a curious side-question during all this colour talk.
>When i bought Key, she was really small, really still just a baby. One of
>several reasons why I picked her out as a friend for Spoo was her
>colouring. I thought that since she was so young, her colour would
>change. I've had her over a month now and she's still the same odd
>colour. She's the same Agouti(?) (generic gerbil-brown) as Spoo, but she's
>got a PURPLE cast to her fur! It's sort of her under-fur that is purple,
>but in the light she's more purple than brown. So, is this just a
>different brown, or is this another specific colour of gerbil? Just
>wondering,
>
Sounds to me like her upper coat, the long agouti hairs, are not yet fully
developped. Because of that the underfurr is still very visible. Blow in the
coat of a normal agouti, and you will see the greyish undercoat. She was
probably rather underdeveloped, the runt of a litter. Often you see that the
fur takes very long to develop in those animals. Keep a good eye on her, she
might still be weak!
Karin.
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