Recently my adult female normal has been shedding every 8-10 days. Is this ok? Has anyone ever expirienced this before?
09-28-2013, 01:02 PM
sho220
Re: Shed
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Originally Posted by exoticballs
Recently my adult female normal has been shedding every 8-10 days. Is this ok? Has anyone ever expirienced this before?
Never heard of that...what kind of feed schedule is she on?
09-28-2013, 01:05 PM
exoticballs
I usually feed her medium rats weekly. I started feeding her 2 medium rats about 3 weeks ago to get her weight up a bit more for breeding. I feed her 2 rats a week last year before breeding aswell but she was shedding monthly
1.1 mojave
1.1 pastel
0.1 pastel %100 het clown
1.0 butter bee
1.0 lesser
0.1 normal
0.1 spider
0.1 fire
1.0 pinstripe
1.0 albino
09-28-2013, 01:28 PM
sho220
Re: Shed
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Originally Posted by exoticballs
I usually feed her medium rats weekly. I started feeding her 2 medium rats about 3 weeks ago to get her weight up a bit more for breeding. I feed her 2 rats a week last year before breeding aswell but she was shedding monthly
Weird. I've had girls on heavier than normal feed schedules and never had them shed that close together. I don't know??? :confusd:
09-28-2013, 01:43 PM
kat_black181
Re: Shed
This is definitely interesting. I've never heard of this either.
09-28-2013, 02:00 PM
sho220
Do you monitor her weight? If so, has she been gaining a lot of weight lately?
09-28-2013, 02:11 PM
Neal
Yea, even feeding on that shouldn't do that. I mean the shedding process itself takes about that so that would have to put her in shed immediately after another shed.
@OP - Do you mean when she shed's it normally takes that long from start to finish?
09-28-2013, 03:18 PM
exoticballs
Re: Shed
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Originally Posted by sho220
Do you monitor her weight? If so, has she been gaining a lot of weight lately?
I weighed her about a month ago and her weight wasnt that much of a difference
09-28-2013, 03:21 PM
sho220
Re: Shed
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Originally Posted by exoticballs
I weighed her about a month ago and her weight wasnt that much of a difference
How long has she been doing this? And has anything changed as far as feeding/housing/drastic temp changes/etc. I'm not sure if it may be something from an outside influence or something biological going on with her. :confusd: Hopefully some veterans will chime in that have heard of this before...
09-28-2013, 03:21 PM
exoticballs
Re: Shed
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Originally Posted by Neal
Yea, even feeding on that shouldn't do that. I mean the shedding process itself takes about that so that would have to put her in shed immediately after another shed.
@OP - Do you mean when she shed's it normally takes that long from start to finish?
No she sheds right away. I recently started marking down when she sheds. She shedded on 9/13 then shed again on 9/23 and she has blue eyes now
