Breeding Ages

At what age do BP females stop breeding? What seems to be their prime breeding age?

Thanks in advance.

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Originally Posted by ClarkT

At what age do BP females stop breeding? What seems to be their prime breeding age?

Thanks in advance.

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I don't think they ever stop breeding. I've heard of a 25 year old female breeding. I'm pretty sure on here.....

Now that I think of it, are there any animals that have evolved a "menopause" stage of life to conserve their bodies? I'm not sure that I know of any. I recently spoke to someone who bred their 13 year old lab because "she was so pretty", oh my gosh was I mad. I felt so bad for that old crippled dog. I don't know how she didn't die!

I have never heard of a female past the breeding age in ball's. They have a long life span and have heard of females breeding well into their 20's and 30's. I know that bearded dragons have a shorter breeding age as they start to decline on egg production after 3 or 4 years and will eventually stop producing.

Menopause has been observed in rhesus monkeys,[27] chimpanzees,[28] elephants,[29] short-finned pilot whales[30] and other cetaceans,[31] as well as in a variety of other vertebrate species including the guppy,[32] the platyfish, the budgerigar, the laboratory rat and mouse, and the opossum, as well as some whales.[33] However, with the exception of the short-finned pilot whale, such examples tend to be from captive individuals and are not necessarily representative of natural populations.

This is from wikipedia.

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Originally Posted by ed4281

Menopause has been observed in rhesus monkeys,[27] chimpanzees,[28] elephants,[29] short-finned pilot whales[30] and other cetaceans,[31] as well as in a variety of other vertebrate species including the guppy,[32] the platyfish, the budgerigar, the laboratory rat and mouse, and the opossum, as well as some whales.[33] However, with the exception of the short-finned pilot whale, such examples tend to be from captive individuals and are not necessarily representative of natural populations.

This is from wikipedia.

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Oh thank you!!! I forgot about rats and mice, duh :rolleyes: