My friend has a male gerbil, that is albino, and i have a female that is white with black spots, (really cute!) we were talking about breeding them, but i know nothing about gerbil breeding, only rabbits and dogs. How long are they pregnant for? Anything special I need to do in the cage? How long do we leave the pair together? How soon do I seperate the babies?? Thanks so much, any additional info will be greatly appreciated!
Answers:
Check out the care handbook on www.AGSgerbils.org. It has a whole section breeding gerbils that would answer your questions. It also tells you how to introduce two gerbils, gradually and carefully with a split cage.
You'd need to leave the dad in with the mom to raise the first litter, then a couple days before the babies hit five weeks take out dad and sons and let mom and a daughter raise the second litter.
Gerbil males are great dads, and lone mothers sometimes don't do well without help of the male or an immature daughter.
PS - half of the babies will be black and half spotted black. You could get other colors too if the parents have some recessive genes.
you can seperate the babys after 6 weeks.
It takes 7 months to breed.
Gerbils are usually pregnant for 24 days and then mate again after they deliver the pups. The only special you need to do to the cage is leave it alone as much as possible once the young ones are born. We had a silver male and a female that looked like a Siamese cat and they turned out pups that looked like
It's probably best to remove the pups after they have their eyes open and are a good size. Sex them first, and separate them, unless you want tons more gerbils.
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