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!
Yeah, she was pretty runtly... :)
She's still fairly scrawny, but I see to it that when I feed them, I take her fat roly poly cagemate out and let her eat first, because I've noticed that Spoo gets at it first. She's still terribly small, but she can hold her own now, which is good, and she heals quickly (Spoo bit her near her ear several weeks ago, and it had healed up in around two days, Spoo's nose is still healing from the Aspen bedding allergy). Should I supplement their food with vitamins or something? I noticed that they're not eating their green pellets from the gerbil mix food (I wouldn't either, they look gross :).
Thanks,
Kelly, Spoo, and Key
