So last year this gal sort of surprised me with a clutch of eggs. She had locked with the male many times, but she never show any of the classic signs, no real cold side seeking, no bowl wrapping, she did do a perfect coil after shed and that's when I started to suspect her...but she didn't go off feed until two weeks before she ended up laying. So I was of the mind that if she didn't lay eggs I would have not have been surprised, but when she did I was like...awesome. I didn't catch her ovulation that year, at least not in an obvious sense.
On Feb 14 I woke up to this, suddenly looking nice and fat, she has shown no interest in the male since this day:
Today she has gone into blue for a shed and was doing this around her dish that I keep sphagnum moss in to help with humidity.
I want to say she's just doing the building thing except when I came home she was curled in a strange ball on the hot side like this:
Once she sheds I'm just going to go ahead and start my 27 day count down and turn the incubator on and such.
I'm going out of town for the next five days...so if she decides to do a proper ovulation in that time I'm going to miss it. But do they tend to go into shed like this when they are still building?
Thoughts?
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