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Post by degulover21 on Jun 10, 2023 8:06:19 GMT
What age would you consider old? In Degus
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Post by moletteuk on Jun 10, 2023 17:36:11 GMT
Hi DL, nice to see you  It depends what you mean by old and it varies quite a lot, but I would say that 6yrs is getting senior. |
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Post by teemu on Jun 10, 2023 18:33:51 GMT
My experience is that a degu will start to show that they're not young any more somewhere close to 4 or 5 years of age (but this is based on exactly one degu so far, so it might vary), and after that increasingly there will be signs of age. So I agree with Moletteuk that 6 years seems like a good basic guideline. But it will vary by the animal, of course. Evidently, some degus will live for closer to ten years after that, and some of them seem to stay forever energetic and spry.
I think it depends a lot on all of care, genetics and just chance.
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