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View Poll Results: Do your females eat between ovulation and laying?

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  • My females always stay on food after ovy and before laying

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  • My females never stay on food after ovy and before laying

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  • There is an even split - off feed is not the best indicator

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    Eating post ovulation?

    I had a female shed and start glowing about 2 months ago. She ovulated on May 9 last year. I didn't catch her in ovy but she is pretty fat right now. She is eating small meals every 5 days still.

    My question is this - what % of the time, in your experience, does a female keep accepting meals after ovulation? I am worried she has reabsorbed but she is pretty big and I keep catching her laying on her side, belly up, etc.
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    My females stop eating a couple weeks before ovulation and never show interest in eating after that.

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    On the upside, she is very fat right now... so perhaps the ovulation is yet to come! We are only 10 days past last year's date and we had a particularly cool winter/spring.

    Crossing my fingers.
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    Re: Eating post ovulation?

    Most people rarely offer food after an ovy...

    I have had a few eat after an ovy over the years...Most were girls that were being picky eaters while growing follicles, which is why I offered food after an ovy in the first place...

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    My girls, too, have stopped eating a few weeks to a month before they ovulate. The ones that have a pre-ovy shed usually refuse immediately following the shed, the (so far) one girl who hasn't had a pre-ovy shed still started refusing around the same time.

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    Re: Eating post ovulation?

    I had one girl eat all the way through, didn't turn down a meal so I kept feeding her and found eggs one day!

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    Re: Eating post ovulation?

    Quote Originally Posted by SlitherinSisters View Post
    I had one girl eat all the way through, didn't turn down a meal so I kept feeding her and found eggs one day!

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    I am hoping for this or that she hasn't ovulated yet. She is FAT but not with a distinct swell like an ovy, more like she is gravid. Thanks for giving me hope!
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    Re: Eating post ovulation?

    Yeah I thought it was crazy and miss took her ovy for building bc she was still eating.

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    Going through the same thing with my enchi girl. Showed all the progression signs and all of her behavior was spot on. Now she is 47 days after a what i believed to be a pre lay shed, and eating, I'm really confused. Just gotta wait it out I guess.
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    Re: Eating post ovulation?

    Quote Originally Posted by MrLang View Post
    Eating post ovulation?.
    I eat after every ball python ovulation.

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