Sheesh, gerbils are quite characters, I must say. Mating all day
long is insane, and my first litter came after 3+ hours of mating.
Observing is *so* fun. I have enough info to send to a research lab
:P Whenever I'm bored I plop down in front of my gerbil shelf and
take notes. I have a notebook full of notes, drawings, the beginning
of my gerbil story.. I must say, I'm a gerbil fanatic ;)
Paige
"M. Sherryandra Soderquist" wrote:
> I had stopped breeding gerbils. I really had. I haven't had a
> litter of gerbils in my house since January.
>
> Well... I had some of males, and some young females, and I got to
> thinkin'. So now I have a pair on my desk here. The male is a
> pied apricot. The female is a DEH. They've been mating ALL DAY.
> Expect a litter report in 25+/- days. Maybe I will observe them,
> take notes, and write "A Gerbil Pregnancy: Day-by-Day". They get
> observed a lot anyway, being on top of my computer desk.
>
> So, is gerbil breeding some sort of sick compulsion or what? :)
> Actually, to tell you the truth, I missed having gerbil pups
> around.
>
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