anyone have a gravid female that still eats?

wondering how common or rare this is.

females that eat during breeding, most will stop around ovalution.

Mine typically stop eating a couple weeks before ovulation.

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Originally Posted by Dave Green

Mine typically stop eating a couple weeks before ovulation.

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Some of mine will stop a few months before ovy and some will eat all the way up until.
But I think more often than not they will stop right around the warm up stage, that is, if you use cool down in your breeding method.

I've got some that eat right up until nearly time to lay.

i've got one girl who has eaten one mouse (grrr) since i got her a few months ago (at 1500g) and has been locking up regularly. and one girl who has been eating non-stop, including all the rats the breeder males won't eat, locking up occasionally at 1700g (laid for me last year at 1200gs)

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Originally Posted by Dave Green

Mine typically stop eating a couple weeks before ovulation.

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Same here. Or they will have a meal a week or so right before ovu

Most of my girls eat up to ovulation, but after that they rarely keep eating.

I had one female I hadn't realized was gravid because she continued to eat up until 2 weeks before she dropped eggs. I thought I'd just missed her window for breeding and was kinda freakin out about how she looked (you know that raised spine look they get before dropping eggs), and then suddenly I came home and EGGS! My first couple years breeding were a collection of weird egg occurances, from eggs dropping 6 months after one lone copulation to that female continuing to eat for so long while gravid.

Aside from that one time though, most of my girls stop feeding around ovulation.

-Jen

My pastel girl never stopped eating last year, this year she took a 6 month fast.