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  • 04-23-2008, 12:23 PM
    Icatsme
    Female Feeding After Laying Eggs - Time Frame?
    A question for you experienced breeder folks...

    What's the average time between the female laying eggs and her first meal post-lay. Assume that the eggs are being artificially incubated and have been removed from the enclosure.

    Is it a few weeks, a few days, a month before she'll accept a meal?

    Thanks!
  • 04-23-2008, 12:29 PM
    SatanicIntention
    Re: Female Feeding After Laying Eggs - Time Frame?
    All of mine last year(3) ate within a few days to a week of being pulled off of their clutches. As long as they are washed off(dilute soapy water) and their tubs are cleaned very well, they seem to bounce back quite quickly :)
  • 04-23-2008, 12:31 PM
    Icatsme
    Re: Female Feeding After Laying Eggs - Time Frame?
    Cool beans, thank you.
  • 04-23-2008, 01:31 PM
    MATTI
    Re: Female Feeding After Laying Eggs - Time Frame?
    One female layed allready. It took a week before her first meal again, last year I think even longer.
  • 04-23-2008, 01:34 PM
    LadyOhh
    Re: Female Feeding After Laying Eggs - Time Frame?
    I usually offer after the 5th day.. They get settled in and usually eat by then.
  • 04-23-2008, 01:52 PM
    ShawnT
    Re: Female Feeding After Laying Eggs - Time Frame?
    Mine is a picky eater and she took 3 weeks to feed after laying :O
  • 04-23-2008, 01:58 PM
    jkobylka
    Re: Female Feeding After Laying Eggs - Time Frame?
    Usually about 4 or 5 days. One girl from this year held out for 2 weeks and I've had them go as long as a month. That's pretty unusual though. I have pulled them out and given them another wash down if they are being tuff, that has had mixed results.

    Justin
  • 04-23-2008, 02:19 PM
    Tosha_Mc
    Re: Female Feeding After Laying Eggs - Time Frame?
    Most of mine will eat the next feeding day - which can be anytime from that evening to a few days later - even my WC girls fed within a day or two of dropping. But you do have to make sure you clean them and their tubs really well.
  • 04-23-2008, 02:19 PM
    ShawnT
    Re: Female Feeding After Laying Eggs - Time Frame?
    Quote:

    Originally Posted by jkobylka View Post
    Usually about 4 or 5 days. One girl from this year held out for 2 weeks and I've had them go as long as a month. That's pretty unusual though. I have pulled them out and given them another wash down if they are being tuff, that has had mixed results.

    Justin

    Yea that's what I did...I soaked her tub and her in a tub w/ shallow water a second time and the next day she ate 2 mice :rage:
  • 04-23-2008, 02:50 PM
    jkobylka
    Re: Female Feeding After Laying Eggs - Time Frame?
    Quote:

    Originally Posted by ShawnT View Post
    Yea that's what I did...I soaked her tub and her in a tub w/ shallow water a second time and the next day she ate 2 mice :rage:

    Sounds good but get that poor girl some RATS!!! :)

    Justin
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