cinnycinnamon
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Post by cinnycinnamon on Nov 17, 2004 18:02:19 GMT -8
I have noticed that a few of my boy gerbils seem to be on the chubby side, whereas my two girls are not chubby at all. I take them out just about everyday to play and run as well. They all eat the same food so I don't understand why they are fat. ![???](//storage.proboards.com/forum/images/smiley/huh.png) Is this happening to anybody else here or is it just something effecting my gerbils? ![:-/](//storage.proboards.com/forum/images/smiley/undecided.png) Cindy
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Post by sandy on Nov 17, 2004 18:16:53 GMT -8
If your overweight gerbils are housed together, try giving them just lab block for a while, and giving them an exercise wheel in their tank. No more sunflower seeds for a while until they lose weight, I guess.
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Post by doomgerbiluk on Nov 17, 2004 23:48:50 GMT -8
Boys get 'chunky' reducing the fat in their diet will help, or use alfalfa (I use the hay) as a subustitution for soem of their mix!! but tbh I think some gerbils are going to get chunky whether you put them on a diet or not could you weigh them and give us a range of weights please?
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Post by andrea on Nov 18, 2004 0:19:59 GMT -8
we have two boys that are chunky and seem to be getting chunkier as they get older. But hardly eat much compared to some of our skinner gerbs. I think that some times there natural variation, kinda like humans I guess. Heres our two fat boys. Although the siamese in the piccy, you can just see him bum at the right of the piccy. marianna now has him and hes now with a female, he seems to be trimming up.. ;D ![](http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v281/brooksgerbils/Mongolian%20Gerbils/100_1545.jpg)
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Post by queenofthenile on Nov 18, 2004 5:16:23 GMT -8
My overweight gerbils have slimmed up now that I make my own gerbil food. The problem is that the mix bought from the store has *way* too many sunflower seeds. They still get sunflower seeds, but only a couple a day.
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Post by andrea on Nov 18, 2004 5:36:05 GMT -8
The sunflower seeds is the main reason why I switched to rat mix, it doesn't have sunflower seeds. I tend to give them sunflower seeds loose.
I think the batchelor males tend to get more portly. I guess they have to keep there wifes impressed.
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Post by sweetie on Nov 18, 2004 16:58:53 GMT -8
I notice that my boys are bigger than the girls. I think that even though they get the same amount and type of food and get teh same amount of excercise, the girls are just way more active than the boys. The boys are rather lazy. The girls are usually moving alot and keeping busy.
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cinnycinnamon
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Post by cinnycinnamon on Nov 18, 2004 17:09:48 GMT -8
I have noticed that too about my girls-much more active then the boys. I also give mine alfalfa once a week and try to cut out on the sunflower seeds. I do see the boys sleeping alot more then the girls as well. As for the exercise wheel, none of them used it. In fact, they just buried it so I no longer keep it in their tanks. My camera is charging up right now so just as soon as it is charged, I will snap a few piccys of my boys. I don't have a scale to weight them, either. ![:-/](//storage.proboards.com/forum/images/smiley/undecided.png) [quote author=Andrea I think the batchelor males tend to get more portly. I guess they have to keep there wifes impressed. [/quote] That's funny! Good one, Andrea ;D
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