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Post by deguconvert on Nov 23, 2016 15:08:49 GMT
It has been suggested that it would be great to know what the ages of our degus are, so that we can see how long they are living. Please select all the appropriate ages for all the degu you have, both living and dead. I will not put a limit on the number of selections that can be made. So, have at it, and lets see what we learn! I have no idea how to allow for several of the same age, so if you can put a note in the comments below to specify now many, that would be great!!
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Post by deguconvert on Nov 23, 2016 15:12:26 GMT
1, six month old. 1, two year old. 1, three year old. 1, five year old. 2, eight years old.
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Post by deguconvert on Nov 23, 2016 15:14:05 GMT
Just realized I have made a mistake with my poll! How do I edit it?
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Post by ntg on Nov 23, 2016 15:20:51 GMT
What's the mistake DC? in your answers or something with the actual poll?
Living 2 males approx 4 years old.
Deceased 1 male 2 (nearly 3) years old, 1 male 4 (+3/4) years old, 1 male 5.5 years and 1 male estimated 11/12 years old.
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Post by ntg on Nov 23, 2016 15:26:04 GMT
It might be easier to have separate polls for deceased and living?
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Post by randomname on Nov 23, 2016 17:15:23 GMT
Had a rescue group of 5, never knew their ages, but one was around 8 months, the rest adult. They were with me for between 5 -7 years. I don't know how old the older ones were, but the youngest died aged 7, nearly 8. The others were probably similar ages when they died. One was younger, probably around 5 when he died. No idea how old BB was. The babies are currently 5/6 months old. They're the only ones I've ever known the proper ages of. Great to see a 10 year old on there - gives me hope
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Post by spottydegu on Nov 23, 2016 17:27:00 GMT
Both (two) of mine about 8 months!
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Post by vchan000 on Nov 23, 2016 17:36:12 GMT
Both Ozzy and Mac are approximately 2 years old.
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Post by ntg on Nov 23, 2016 19:17:12 GMT
Great to see a 10 year old on there - gives me hope It's a bit of an estimate - he's a rescue too but my other lad is one of his sons whose age I definitely know (4 and 3/4s) and I know when we got Gandalf he was certainly older than my other lad is. They still run (or ran in Smeg's case) at the same pace and show no signs of slowing down whereas Gandalf was a lot slower and older in appearance with an old gait to him. The rescue estimated 6 which I'm becoming more inclined to believe and I've had them for over 4 years now. Personally though, I think he's sucking the lifeforce out of the others to continue his reign of terror. At this stage I wouldn't be surprised if he was the last one with us!
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Post by ntg on Nov 23, 2016 20:24:51 GMT
I've fiddled with the voting and I can get it past the 20 votes mark so I think you set it up right. It's limited to 15 votes per user.
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Post by deguconvert on Nov 23, 2016 20:35:45 GMT
Ummm . . . so . . . the "edit" at the top of my description comment will also "edit" the poll?? D'UH!!! I'm not that far away from being too old to know how to use my phone it would seem!!!!
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Post by ntg on Nov 23, 2016 20:42:01 GMT
For some reason it wouldn't actually let me do anything to the poll but I could definitely get the vote number past 20 quite easily. I think you just misinterpreted what it said PS I didn't realise I had the ability to edit people's posts... That sort of power could go to my head
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Post by uglibug on Nov 23, 2016 20:52:37 GMT
The girls are all 5, Brian and Stu are 6 & 7 and Buddy and Mater are 12 & 13 (approximately). Dopey died aged 4, cause unknown.
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Post by moletteuk on Nov 23, 2016 21:02:20 GMT
I think a separate poll for dead degus makes sense. (OMG ntg, how long have you been a moderator?? - you'll have to come back full time now to make use of your powers! )
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Post by ntg on Nov 23, 2016 21:11:27 GMT
(OMG ntg, how long have you been a moderator?? - you'll have to come back full time now to make use of your powers! ) I know, I know. Truth be told I probably already knew way back when and completely blanked it. However, now that I know once again I can begin the dark days of censorship in the degu world Just a side note for anyone who doesn't know me - I take very little seriously, I don't know why I was granted this power in the first place
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Post by winic1 on Nov 23, 2016 23:19:54 GMT
I have 3 boys approaching 3 years old right now. Chitter lived to just over 6 years old, and Chester made it to almost 7. But because you started the other poll, I took them off this one.
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Post by Emziedee on Nov 24, 2016 0:47:29 GMT
1, 2 year old. 1 3/4 year old. You just never really know unless you get them from pups do you? I'm going to try and count the ring on the end of Tibbs bald tail 😝
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Post by klbishop on Nov 24, 2016 19:23:13 GMT
the triplets are nearly 6
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Post by yasmin on Nov 25, 2016 15:35:41 GMT
HELP! OMG – I hope I didn't screw up the poll. I clicked the 7 year old box once, then had trouble checking the 5 year old box because I have six 5-year old goos. I then noticed that the 9-year old box was also checked – probably by me – so I unchecked that.
As far as I know, I have so far entered: • one vote for 7-year old (for my goo Peridot) • one vote for 5-year old (for Makoto) • I can't seem to enter the rest of them which would be 5 more votes for 5-year olds for Ichi, Ni, Shi, Jin and Rei.
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Post by ntg on Nov 25, 2016 15:54:51 GMT
You can only tick one box once yasmin that's why we've been putting details in the comments And don't worry, you can only change your answers on the poll or at least certainly from the main screen, I haven't fiddled on my desktop. So you must have accidentally ticked 9!
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