Re: Hatchling Hasn't Eaten First Meal
Hallelujah she ate. It's been 6 days since I last tried. She has 2 hides, water bowl, aspen, and a towel covering the front half of her cage 24/7. Put a live mouse fuzzy in with her undisturbed for three hours, checked and it was gone. :D
Re: Hatchling Hasn't Eaten First Meal
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Galaxygirl
Hallelujah she ate. It's been 6 days since I last tried. She has 2 hides, water bowl, aspen, and a towel covering the front half of her cage 24/7. Put a live mouse fuzzy in with her undisturbed for three hours, checked and it was gone. :D
Congrats! I was going to say when the skin at the end, about 1/3 of the way becomes slick and kinda wrinkly was a bad sign for us. We lost some babies when they got to that point. So we ended up assisting after 5-6 meal attempts on some babies. We did lose some babies due to the fact we just didn't know the signs. Now me and my boyfriend knows better and we are aware of the signs. Good luck on the little ones and I can't wait to see some pics XD
Re: Hatchling Hasn't Eaten First Meal
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Solarsoldier001
Congrats! I was going to say when the skin at the end, about 1/3 of the way becomes slick and kinda wrinkly was a bad sign for us. We lost some babies when they got to that point. So we ended up assisting after 5-6 meal attempts on some babies. We did lose some babies due to the fact we just didn't know the signs. Now me and my boyfriend knows better and we are aware of the signs. Good luck on the little ones and I can't wait to see some pics XD
Yeah... I was always afraid when I would peek at her these last two weeks. Not sure how long they can go without eating for the first time. She weighs 75g full now. We were going to assist if she refused tonight, so we're very thankful it didn't come to that. Her sister also ate her first f/t rat pup tonight, so we're happy to have her switched! Now we're just working on getting our 1200g girl back eating again. She's always been a super enthusiastic F/T eater that takes it from us instantly, but she hasn't eaten the past two months. We've been leaving f/t rat pups in her cage the past week and she's been gobbling them up, sometimes hours after leaving them in there, so we tried leaving an adult f/t rat in there tonight. Hopefully she eats it!
