Gerbil - a little small animal from family of group homyakovy. As they are easily tamed and care for them does not make special work, they became popular in many houses, especially where there are children. They are often confused with mice, jerboas or hamsters, but by the Mongolian gerbils – a separate look which in leaving demands special conditions.
It is required to you
- cage or aquarium, ball drinking bowl, ceramic bowl, forage for gerbils, sawdust
Instruction
1. First of all it is necessary to choose the residence – a cage or an aquarium. Cages for rodents inexpensive, have several tiers therefore often draw attention of owners of gerbils. In practice of a cage are not really convenient as rodents very much like to dig and throw a laying through cage rods. Also gerbils rather running animals than jumping to them the scope in the horizontal direction, but not multinumber of storeys of a cage is important. The aquarium or a terrarium are more convenient as are closed from all directions and the garbage does not take off. And also protects small animals from drafts. Surely there has to be an air access, the mesh cover for this purpose becomes. The optimum size of the room for one individual of 30*50 cm.
2. On a bottom of a cage or an aquarium it is necessary to lay filler. It is convenient to use sawdust or corn filler. Paper is very quickly soiled, and granules are inconvenient for small paws. Surely attach a ball (nippelny) drinking bowl, often change water. It is not recommended to put the open container with water as having become wet, small animals quickly catch a cold and get sick. Add paper to cold time, from it warm nests turn out, and it is possible to put a tile on which gerbils are cooled in a heat. As a feeding trough it is necessary to use strong steady capacity, ceramic bowls with high boards are very convenient. In a cage it is possible to put the container with sand for chinchillas, gerbils in it bathe and clean the skin. Usual sand cannot be used, it secht wool.
3. It is the simplest to feed with a purchased forage for rats, mice or hamsters. Also special forages for gerbils meet. It is possible to add to a forage gammarus, vitamins, delicacies. Well eat gerbils fresh carrots and apples.
4. If you are not going to breed gerbils, then to optimum contain them same-sex couples. On one to them it is not comfortable, and in collectives more than two individuals arise the conflicts, sometimes from the death.