New at eGerbil is the coat colour I.D. coat checker.  Built in Flash format, it's ideal for any beginning gerbil keeper or breeder and helps to identify the coat colour variety of your gerbil.

It's very easy to use and is in a question & answer style and takes you along an identification path for virtually all gerbil colours.

Either click the picture on the left or click here to take you straight to the page.

 A new spotting mutation appears

Read all about this probable spotting mutation that has appeared recently in Mongolian gerbils in the informative article by Kira Gysel on the subject.  The article explores its origins and subsequent breeding of the coat colour and explains how it can cause potential health problems.  To accompany the article readers may also find the new article "Further Notes on Spotting Genes in Gerbils" an interesting read.