GemStar L <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote
>I have some questions about introducing gerbils. The
>first one is if one gerbil is 10 weeks old and one is
>5 weeks old, do you need to do split-cage? I know
>that usually if they are both between 5 and 8 weeks
>you don't, but 10 weeks is two weeks older than that.
I would use the split cage. We have had plenty of ten week olds that
would fight young introductees.
>
>The other question is how old is a gerbil before it is
>considered an "adult"?
It depends on the context. They are not fully grown until about four
months, maybe longer, but they behave like adults from some time between
ten and thirteen weeks.
>
>and the third question is, has anyone ever had any
>luck with more than two females in a cage? I haven't
>tried to put more than two in on cage that weren't
>juveniles (had four sisters togetehr for a week but
>they were only 5 weeks old) because I've heard so much
>about females being more likely to fight than males.
You can be lucky and have no trouble. But trouble at four to six months
and at two and a half years is likely with larger groups. In our
experience, the larger the group the more likely there is to be trouble.
>
>Hope these questions aren't "dumb". just wanting to
>know what options I have as the babies get older.
Not dumb at all.
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Julian
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National Gerbil Society
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