well I will say this, There was some dispute as to if "Big Mama" was in fact female. for the price I paid for her she really should have been a male. But now that can be laid to rest and I can look forward to breeding her to my pastel next year.

so on to the next question... how do I keep her at a good healthy weight? keep up with what I'm doing now?

I'm almost certain that it was her weight that made this happen. she is still well over 2000 grams and he is only 5 years old so power feeding must have happened with the breeder I bought her off of. I was feeding her a x-large rat every 7 days, he was feeding her every 4 to 5 days on jumbos. I felt that was a little much so I knocked down her food intake and fed her once a week like every one else.