>She's in with a male, the same one she's been with for the past year. This
>has never happened before, and I'd never heard of it happening before, so I
>am a little nervous. There's not a LOT of blood, really. I'm really
hoping
>it's just from her cycle (though why would she start doing that all of the
>sudden, if she'd never done it before).
Age.
>It's not from her mate breeding her,
>they haven't done that lately. A couple of weeks ago I thought she might
>have been pregnant, but then a couple days later decided it was just a
false
>alarm, so it's most likely not from a miscarraige or a delivery. And I'm
>really hoping it's not a cyst or tumor. Would there be more blood with
that?
Gerbils can be awfully quick about 'whambam' and done. She could
have delivered just one pup or miscarried just one pup and the male
did the dutiful thing, which was to try to rebreed her.
More likely, she might have actually carried, delivered one or two
pups, had problems with those and destroyed them; then was
rebred and now miscarried.
>Thank you for your reply. I'm glad to know that at least someone has had
>experience with this. I've been breeding gerbils for about 4 or 5 years
now,
>and this is the first time I've ever come across anything like this.
Keep a close eye on her. If you pick her up and she has an off
smell to her (like rotting something) then take her to the vet for
a check. Or she bleeds more. Or she starts acting strangely,
or lethargic.
Is she over the last two weeks either gotten plump and thin,
or now has a concave stomach?
Deb
Rebel's Rodent Ranch
