Weighing a baby?

[Yzmasmom]

When do I weigh my baby?

She was 2.5 months when we got her in August and she ate for us, but it took 2 weeks to get a huge liquid pee, a urate and a small poop.
Then, she continued to eat and it took another 2 weeks to get a big liquid pee, a urate and a tiiiiiiny speck of poop.
Now, she's 3.5 months, still eating and after 2 more weeks, no poop, no liquid pee, just one small urate.

Do we weigh her after we find a urate? she is obviously utilizing all of her food and most of her liquids, but do I get a correct weight after a urate then?

My adult does huge pees (liquid and urate) about every other day and poops 1-2 times a week, so we KNOW when she is empty and can be weighed.

[cletus]

For an accurate weight it's best to weight them after they expel, but it doesn't matter much. Just know that if you do weigh them after a huge meal, the accuracy will be off. As long as you are noticing gains along they way I think it's all good.

[Nellasaur]

Honestly I just weigh my dude every week consistently at the same time and keep an eye on the general trends. If I see a weight drop from one week to the next, but a gain from the second week to the third, then I'll assume I weighed him full one week and after an elimination the next.

[Rikoku]

I use an excel sheet to keep track, like Nellasaur said above, you are going to see drops and gains.



As you can see in that graph, there are a lot of dips but the overall trend is upward.

[Stewart_Reptiles]

If you want to weigh your animals to keep track of progress that would be on empty.

I don't weight my animal's simply because I pay more attention to overall body shape and proportion than weight.

The only time I weigh animals it's a customer request.

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[Nellasaur]

@Rikoku Oh man, you know, I track Yigg's weight in Excel too but I never thought about graphing the numbers. I should do that!