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Question: Strange baby tails.. Help :)

dudzie

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My babies are growing fine, but i noticed that their tails are quite different.

They are siblings, and approx 15 out of 25 have the short tail version..


Are they dwarfs?
Anyone that has seen this before?
Should i separate the short ones from the 'normal' ones? :)


Oh, and both parents are perfectly normal :)
 

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The first and last pictures look fairly normal, the middle 2 are a dwarf.
 
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