I<3Snakes

u got any other pics of ur little furry gerbils ???

Well if you want to have gerbil babies you have to learn to have patience because they often have a varied pregnancy time, depending on if they were nursing a litter already when they became pregnant. It's not like humans or dogs!

Sigh...nope, still one big fat belly and no babies! Wish she would hurry up lol!

Heh Glad I could help!

I have a care guide I give to people who are interested in getting baby gerbies from me. Would you like me to send you a copy of it? There might be some tips in there that you'd find useful. My e-mail addy is on my site, if you want a copy of the guide just e-mail me from there and I'll send it to you. There are also pictures of many of the different colours gerbils come in, so you can pick your faves and think about what you might like to breed if you decide to go that way. I hope you'd discuss it with your parents before you decide to breed small animals though. It's not all fun and games, things can and do go wrong, and you can end up with a whole lot of gerbils VERY quickly if you don't know what you're doing. The vet bills for sick baby gerbils will be much higher than what you'd get from selling them too. You can't make money from breeding gerbils unless you cut corners on care and do it on a huge scale - like a puppy mill for gerbils.

You should be able to find lots of people selling used fish tanks in the classifieds of your local newspaper, or other places like that - Craigslist etc. I've got lots of tanks for very little money by buying second hand.

It'll be tricky, you'll definitely need help and there's no guarantee it's going to work. If they're both adult males then they'll be trying to kill each other for quite a while before they calm down. A fish tank with a wire mesh lid is the best type of cage to use for this kind of thing - that way you can wedge the divider in diagonally so there's no easy way for them to just push it aside.

I would talk to your parents about it and see how they feel because it's a longish commitment to make, split caging two adult males.

You could also get two baby males from a good breeder and introduce Google and Pumpkin to a new baby each. Same method, but it won't be as difficult because the baby will always accept the big one as the boss. If you don't want to keep them with a pal, you'll have to just give them lots of attention and cuddles because gerbils live in big colonies in the wild and need company. If there isn't another gerbil friend in their life, you have to be their friend instead.

Yeah, if you want to put them together you'll have to do what's called a "split cage introduction" - it will take a few weeks or even longer. If you just put them in together they will kill each other.

http://www.petforums.co.uk/rodents/1...tml#post272846
I posted instructions on split caging here...

They're both boys right? It often happens that if you get two same sex gerbils that aren't littermates, they will dislike each other. It'd be a better idea to keep them in separate cages/tanks if they're biting each other. Once a pair of gerbils decide to fight, they fight to the death, rolled up in a ball, going for each other's necks. Not something very nice

Google's disability is probably part of the problem as well - he can't see where Pumpkin is and he probably gets a shock when he realises where Pumpkin is. Then he might lash out because he's surprised.

Go and look at my website then, www.geocities.com/stolenkiss.gerbils - if you click on the Babies tab or the Videos tab there's lots of gerbily baby action on there!

http://i175.photobucket.com/albums/w...reggykenya.jpg
Well this is what she looked like a few hours before she had her first litter, she's about one-third bigger now than she was when I took these.