How To Start Breeding Gerbils

How to start breeding gerbils. Before you start breeding your gerbils, ask yourself why you're going to breed them. There are plenty around, there are lots in pet stores, they're even in rescue homes.

You want to make sure, before you even think about breeding them, you want to make sure you have homes for the babies before they're even born. Obviously to start breeding your gerbils, you need a male and a female. Make sure they're a decent age, at least six months upwards.

They can breed from the age of six to eight weeks. This not only can harm them physically, it can harm them mentally as well. Breeding the mother too young can cause difficulty in taming the mother after she's produced her litter.

After you've put the male and female gerbils together within a week to two weeks, you can separate them out. Sometimes gerbils, when they are pregnant, they can get quite aggressive. So, you wouldn't want them to harm each other so please remove the male.

Once she has given birth, leave her to it, please don't touch the babies. She will do everything the mother should do. She will clean the babies up.

She will care for them, she will feed them. All you need to do is make sure that cage is nice and clean. You will find the mother will take one area of the cage up with the babies.

So, just clean around that area and make sure it doesn't get too smelly or dirty. When mum's producing those babies, it can take a lot of her proteins, her minerals her calcium out of her. So make sure you do give her lots of that in her diet.

Make sure there's a good supply of water and food and give her extra fruit and vegetables three to four times a week. As with anything regarding animals, please if you have any queries, consult your local pet store or your vet. So, that's how to start breeding your gerbils.

I'm sure you've got plenty more questions, either contact your local vet or give us a call in the store. .