Girls that don't show make me sick...

[hardwired]

Most of my girls are very considerate. They are on a schedule and I know what is going on immediately. Occasionally I will get a rebel that will just confound me. One of my girls did that to me today. She is a hypo pos het amel, lav, and stripe. I crossed her with the same in male form and thought nothing more about it. Her shed came, she got a lay box and the day she was due to lay...she went into shed! What the...?!? Well that must have been her ovulation shed as this is her first year but I quickly put her back together with some boys with the same genetics. I have been watching for her shed but none ever came and this morning I found seven little eggs in her sani-chips! There was no shedding darn it! It turned out to be no problem as I check every day and I got the eggs safely transferred. I thought I was horrible for not filling her water dish last night (she knocked it over again) and I remembered as I was going to sleep. It turns out that because I didn't... she didn't lay in the water dish. That was small consolation as I am sure she would have liked a lay box! I can see I am going to have my hands full with this one! I wonder what will happen next? Pulling her out of my sofa? OOh wait..no that was my multi-het female!!! What a day!

[Tom Thompson]

Congrats on the clutch!

[hardwired]

Well it looks like this was the only clutch from this girl and only four eggs hatched of that clutch. There were three hypos and a hybino stripe out of this clutch. There were not enough eggs to really tell anything about this pair other than there is a stripe in there and albino so two out of four genes proved out in four babies is not bad really. I hope my rodent guy will like them!