Interesting ....

[ConcinusMan]

She just took a small meal ... I may wait and let her digest this for an extra day me thinks ... poor girl looked like she needed it.

I read about controlled studies done on T. radix and T. s. parietalis which concluded that the food intake after fertilization has no effect on the health and mass offspring but it has a direct effect on the mother's mass once she has her babies. This seems to support what I have observed. Last year, two of my girls ate very little and fasted for the last 3 weeks of pregnancy. Those two were all "caved in" after they had their babies. The girl that continued to eat vigorously during all but the last 5 days of her pregnancy didn't look so bad after she had them, and bounced back very quickly.

Did your girl not eat well during pregnancy?

[gregmonsta]

Did your girl not eat well during pregnancy?

Ate like a champion at the start and then refused food for the last 6 weeks of pregnancy.

[ConcinusMan]

Oooh. Not so good. Probably why she looks so caved in and starved looking. Hopefully she'll eat enough now and really pound down the food. I've had a lot of trouble with snakes when they don't eat during pregnancy and/or bounce back quickly. Seems like if they don't pull out of it and bounce back fast, they just never do well after that.

[gregmonsta]

[Stefan-A]

Damn that Fawn. Not planning on levelling out, eh?

[gregmonsta]

Damn that Fawn. Not planning on levelling out, eh?

What can I say ... none of my females seem to want to play by the book ... I do tend to go for the crazy ones ... appears to be carrying over to my squamata .

[Stefan-A]

Yeah, but those crazy ones make life a bit more interesting.

[gregmonsta]

Yeah, but those crazy ones make life a bit more interesting.

too true

[Mommy2many]

Go Fawn!

[gregmonsta]

Go Fawn!

She's going alright! 89g gained since mating. Will Mr. Greg finally get some snake babies to coo over?

It's a gamble ... first litter at less than 2 years old ... but she is one Hell of a grower. I still can't believe that she almost matched Suzy in length and weight in her first year.

Refusing to make predictions, what will be will be.

On another note - my typical luck has dictated that Suzy will not be able to see the vet until next Wednesday (Local vet on Holiday/other vet at a conference .... yet again )