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Post by giggles123 on Apr 17, 2011 8:01:33 GMT -8
we had 3 baby gerbils and all of them died, mama tried to take care of the last baby one and past away today, tried to put mama with daddy again, daddy was trying to breed with mama again but apperntly mommy was chirping at him and running away from him what does that mean??
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Post by doug on Apr 17, 2011 8:07:52 GMT -8
This just sounds bad from the short post you did.
1. under normal circumstances the father is NOT removed when babies arrive so my question is why was he removed, this could be a factor in the pups dying.
2. gerbils cannot just be dropped in together, a split cage in nearly always required.
3. the "chirping" is very well the beginning of a fight, gerbils generally forget anothers smell in about 24 hours, so they have no idea they were in a cage together before or if it was just another random gerbil being put in a cage.
Doug
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Post by giggles123 on Apr 17, 2011 8:12:13 GMT -8
what happened was the first night was 3 days ago she had her first one and it died right then, and that was when the father and the mother was still in the cage and we read up that they still mate after they give birth or every time they do give birth, then the second night we took the father out and put them in separated cages and the mother gave birth to 2 more, the 2nd one she gave birth died and she ate half of it, then the 3rd one was still alive and she made a nest and was cuddling with it and this morning the baby died, so we put them back together, and thats when that running away and chirping happened, so we though she might be pregnant again but we dint know yet, but the weird part was the dad was still trying to mate with her
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Post by doug on Apr 17, 2011 8:27:40 GMT -8
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Post by belldandy on Apr 17, 2011 12:27:04 GMT -8
hhhm sure sounds like that other thread??
if i were you i would do a lot more reading up on breeding in the breeding section on this forum .
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Post by giggles123 on Apr 17, 2011 15:06:44 GMT -8
thank you everybody =)
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