Dear Everybody, i'm really sorry for not checking for replys sooner and thankyou very much for the advice, especially on waiting till 9 weeks. I found good eventual homes for 3 and have to keep at least a single girl to keep the mother company as the litter was unplanned AKA Pets at Home. If the degu is still on her own I could travel over to gravesend with a single girl.

Ps spanking tiger thanks again and I really am very sorry for wasting your time, just didn't realise it would have such a quick response. How many degus do you have and did you have any problems keeping cages of different sexes close together in terms of infighting?