So I came home from work for lunch and my female hog isle that I'd given up hope on being gravid... had produced a slug. One lonely, ugly, sent-to-confuse-stephanie, slug.
This female was bred for months by my orange male hog. He lost interest, she had swollen up... but nothing big and noticeable like an ovulation. So, I recorded both sheds since then. Based on the one I thought was the POS, she was due the 28th of last month... based on the other, only half-way through possible pregnancy. I am not sure about hog gestation, I went by the more common BCI averages as far as POS dates.
She slimmed down a bit all throughout her body, not just the upper half, but continued to HCcoil and would change location depending on temperatures shifting at night... all the right signs, (even refusing food all but twice), but on a very, NOT gravid looking boa. I realize hogs have small litters, but there was no sign of anything cooking in that oven... or so I thought.
Well, the saying you never know what you are gunna get... really proves out today. She started messing up the cage late last night or this morning and I thought nothing of it. I've watched her all day and she has continued to press against the floor with the side of her head, as if pushing around babies, since earlier when I arrived to find the one slug at 12pm-ish. A small amount of body twisting and very uncomfortable looking positions have also commenced, though not as badly. I think she may have had just one slug in her...
Any thoughts?? My first Hog breeding and my first partial (maybe) birth... does this happen for you other folks? A litter with one slug? When you folks have a one baby litter is there any slugs or dead young expelled with it? Ever had a litter that starts with one baby/still/pill and then continues hours later to deliver any more? I'm not expecting anything right now, but am still hopeful that this is just the beginning and not the beginning AND end... other experiences similar to this anyone would like to share?
Thanks guys!
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Steph S.
Boas...
1.1 Albino boas (Loki & Hope)
1.4 07 Het. albino boas (Petty & Lady,Sierra,Madeline,Lola)
0.1 Reverse stripe poss. het albino (Cookie)
0.1 Salmon/hypo (Scarlet)
0.1 Anery poss. het snow (Missy)
1.0 Anery (Reno)
1.0 Probable Super Salmontine
0.1 DH Sunglow (Bonnie)
0.0.1 Hypo het anery
1.0.0 Het. Anery (Guy & ?)
0.3 Normals (Ophelia, Sasha, & Lulu)
1.1 Surinames (Solomon & Surreal)
1.2 Hog Isles (Mr.Orange & Peaches, Tang.)
0.0.1 Central American (Sassy)
0.1 Emerald Tree boa (Jade)
1.0 ATB (Satan... seriously!)
Pythons...
2.1 GTPs (B., Monty & Jewel)
0.0.3 BPs (MJ, Precious, Houdini)
1.1 Carpet Pythons (Jackson & Charlotte)
0.1 Blood python (Akaia)
Misc.
1.1 Mandarin Ratsnakes (Jack & Jill)
1.0 Boxer/Pitt Mutt (Tyson)

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