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Post by aminalkrazy03 on Mar 22, 2004 17:53:39 GMT -8
I feed my gerbils lots of food and sunflower seeds and sometimes an occasional carrot but they're still skinny. What's goin' on here?
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Post by butsam on Mar 23, 2004 4:46:32 GMT -8
I've had the same problem. However, my gerbils are also fairly young, not yet full-grown...and I noticed that the coat and body of one of the gerbils has grown longer. If your gerbils are still relatively young, then they probably are still growing *up*, and not yet growing *out*. I'm no expert though, anyone else have a good analysis?
My gerbils are really skinny too, though I feed them plenty. I recommend not giving them tons of sunflower seeds though...they are high in fat and low in nutrition. Treat them like candy. Pick out the sunflower seeds, and hand-feed one or two a day per gerbil. This will make sure they eat other things in their food dish, too, so they stay healthy.
Sam
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Post by Ritzie/Admin on Mar 23, 2004 8:51:05 GMT -8
Younger still growing gerbils are indeed most of the times skinny! They use their energy for their growth!
After that they will most likely gain weight! If they eat a lot, are lively, good fur, not become thinner, etc. than I should not worry if I was you!
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