Muscovys eggs are hatching.
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Today the gerbil babies were a week old, so today was the first day of socializing. They all came out and were held for ten minutes.

I appear to have two blacks, three agoutis, one mystery color that doesn't look quite agouti so we'll see what happens there, and one that I didn't find because it was likely buried in the bedding in the nest and I didn't go digging too much because I didn't want to disturb the parents a ton on the first day of baby handling.
 
Baby pictures!

Here's the first round I scooped up:

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And the second batch:

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A cute picture:

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And this little one on the top is the mystery color. I'm wondering if it might turn out to be Dove, which was the color of the male I had in first breeding pair. I'd like it to be a boy, so I can keep it whether or not I decide to split the pair.

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Baby pictures!

Here's the first round I scooped up:

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And the second batch:

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A cute picture:

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And this little one on the top is the mystery color. I'm wondering if it might turn out to be Dove, which was the color of the male I had in first breeding pair. I'd like it to be a boy, so I can keep it whether or not I decide to split the pair.

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