Starting her pre-lay shed!!!

Hey Tiff, I will race you.. I had one start her Pre-lay shed yesterday .. woo hoo..

Finally!!

Het Ghost to Spider het Ghost mating.

Congrats Tiff! :D

DN 4 evah! :rofl:

Looking good Tiff......Congrats

Best of luck to ya Tiff!

Thanks everyone!

Even if this isn't her pre-lay shed, it's still really exciting to see her lay inverted and chill out on the warm end so I know something is at least going on. If this is her pre-lay shed, then I hope to God she does not lay while I'm at the San Diego show:O

I have tried palpating, but I'm a novice so I couldn't even do it LOL. That video helped a lot though, thanks! I'll try that out on her tonight and see what happens, hopefully I'll feel something.:please:

At what point can you palpate and feel follicles? Can you keep feeling them after a while?

Good luck Tiff.

Have you seen an ovulation?

I ask because I had a girl look like she was ready to ovulate any day and that was in January :( . I couldn't palpate her cause she would tense up so I figured all the signs pointed to an up coming ovulation. They can really fool us sometimes.

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Two days a week (Sunday & Monday.. and Tuesday morning I guess) a go to my dad's place so I assume I could have missed the ovulation but I think this shed is the one before the ovulation. She lays in the strangest ways too, so I assume she's still building. But we'll see what happens. How long will it be until the ovulation after this shed?

By the way, she shed last night. I actually saw her shed her whole skin through the tub so that was real sweet to watch:)

As far as I know there isn't a set time between pre-ovy shed and ovulation. I checked some of my records and one girl shed on 1/31/10 then ovulated on 4/8. Her pre-lay shed was on 4/25.

Oh, and its really cool when you can watch them shed, it seems so alien. :D

When I palpate my females, I have a few that tense up when I'm handling them.. When that happens, I just let them hang out with me for a while and get used to slipping between my fingers. After a few minutes or so, they don't tense up while moving through my fingers and I can feel for follicles. Sometimes it helps to hold them with a thin cloth (I use a tshirt if I don't have anything else handy) to make it a little easier for the snake belly to slide on your fingertips. :) Hope it helps.