Guess What, More Baby Gerbil Pix

About six days old now, and the first hint of fur starting to appear. Having reassured ourselves from several books and websites that yes, you can handle baby gerbils without too much hazard to them (or the state of mind of their parents) we carefully extracted them to see if we could tell the sexes apart yet. Answer: no, not so far, although a couple had what might be tiny nipples and so may be females. They're definitely going to be a mixed bunch in term of colour though; hardly surprising as their parents are almost certainly siblings so recessive genes will be being expressed in the offspring.

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