They all have finally done it...

[Mrs N1ntndo]

Well as of tonight I know that finally all 7 babies have eatin. On July 29,2011 23 babies were born to Pheobe , my eastern garter. The next day I released all but 7. I have never raised babies before and was nervous about the whole thing and still am but today was a happy happy day. On the 3rd day after being born I had 4 of the 7 babies eating. I heard that it could take about 2 weeks to have the babies eating. But when 2 weeks came along the other 3 still hadnt eaten yet. All the advise that you all gave me help me out so much . I kept tring. I think about 2 days ago I had other eating so that left 2 that looked small and even though they acted like nothing was wrong I was still worried and just earlier I was tring to find ways to scent the worms to get the other 2 eating. I asked Rod (hubby) to get worms. He came home and I fed Pheobe and then on to the hungry babies. I got the ones done that I knew would eat and hat the 2 in a seperate take and I left some worm pieces in there also. I came out into the living room to get something and came back in and sure enough 1 of the 2 (sweetie pie ) ate finallly. So I took her and put her in with the other ones in the main encloser. So that meant 1 more needed to eat. I left the baby alone and came out and ate and watched some tv . Rod went into the bedroom for something and came out and said" why is there a fat baby in the tank" I jumped up and went in there and YAY all babies ate. Im so happy. Thank youu for the help and advice. I am looking forward to all eating tomorrw.

[katach]

Congrats!!

[guidofatherof5]

That's great news.
Keep shoveling it in. Babies can and would love to be fed everyday.
This is grow time.

[kibakiba]

My babies don't eat very much, and tend to only accept food every other day, to ever 3 days. Azul gets fed more often than the others due to his tiny frail size, but he's also the only one who will actually eat every day.

[guidofatherof5]

Baby radixes are chow hounds. I once had a group that got fed twice a day.
I did that for the first few weeks.
When it came time of dinner the little pigs acted like they hadn't been fed for a week.

[kibakiba]

Azul does that, I fed him some left over frog chow (cut up night crawler butts) and he acted like he's never seen food in his life.

[d_virginiana]

Good news! Do you have pics of the ones you kept or did I miss/forget that post?

My baby is constantly eating. She's like a bottomless pit.

[Mrs N1ntndo]

i will have some on soon. I took some but I need to put them from my camera to the computer . I will try to get some on in the next day or 2. Ill try to get closeups of all I have. 2 of the 7 babies are going to be my moms but she wants me to make sure there going good before I give them to her. I heard that the first 6 months of there lives is the most crucial(spelling?). So I dont know if I should wait til after that. I probably will to make sure.

[RedSidedSPR]

My babies would eat an adult nightcrawler. (try) They're pigs.

That's great stuff!! Glad thyere eating.

[Mommy2many]

Good to hear. I know we always seem to feel better when our charges eat well.