Frank, I really don't think they are moving their hides to thermoregulate. The hides are so lite that they can't move past them or under them with out moving them. Besides, Aurora had the same set up. She had 17 babies but she also had 2 still born and at least a dozen slugs.

Interestingly, I wasn't going to breed them this year so I didn't start cooling them until a month before I introduced the male to them and I only got 5 females out of Auroras litter. Last year I bought Bailey from a pet store in February and introduced my male to her 3 weeks later. Neither of them were cooled for more than 3 weeks and I only got 4 females out of a litter of 15. Aurora and my male were cooled all winter the year before when she produced 28, I didn't sex them until I only had 14 left but 7 of them were females. I havn't gotten around to checking the sexes in this last litter yet but I'm starting to wonder if a short cooling cycle leads to a high percentage of males.



Dan

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• Another litter! - DanL, Tue Sep 30 19:33:08 2008
• RE: Another litter! - run26neys, Tue Sep 30 20:05:18 2008
• RE: Another litter! - DanL, Wed Oct 1 16:42:35 2008
• RE: Another litter! - rainbowsrus, Tue Sep 30 20:27:42 2008
• Hey Dan.... - rainbowsrus, Wed Oct 1 11:27:20 2008
• RE: Hey Dan.... - DanL, Wed Oct 1 17:16:54 2008
• brick on top of their hides .... - FRoberts, Wed Oct 1 19:31:26 2008
• Frank is right .... - Jeff Clark, Wed Oct 1 20:03:09 2008
• maybe.... - FRoberts, Wed Oct 1 20:12:29 2008
• why interfere LOL n/p - FRoberts, Wed Oct 1 20:13:25 2008
• I will ask them about it. n/p - Jeff Clark, Wed Oct 1 21:29:21 2008
• still talking to them I see... n/p - FRoberts, Thu Oct 2 13:35:57 2008
• RE: brick on top of their hides .... - DanL, Wed Oct 1 22:42:53 2008
• RE: brick on top of their hides .... - olstyn, Thu Oct 2 00:24:59 2008
• Meant that to say 8 male, 5 female, n/p - olstyn, Thu Oct 2 00:26:42 2008
• RE: brick on top of their hides .... - DanL, Thu Oct 2 10:53:27 2008
• RE: brick on top of their hides .... - rainbowsrus, Thu Oct 2 12:01:17 2008
• I find it hard to believe the duration . - FRoberts, Thu Oct 2 13:44:53 2008
• RE: I find it hard to believe the duration . - FRoberts, Thu Oct 2 14:01:38 2008
• also I like to add... - FRoberts, Thu Oct 2 14:12:37 2008
• RE: I find it hard to believe the duration . - rainbowsrus, Thu Oct 2 15:03:35 2008
• RE: I find it hard to believe the duration . - DanL, Thu Oct 2 18:41:24 2008
• I was kidding about them moving their .. - FRoberts, Thu Oct 2 13:34:20 2008
• Not to mention..... - rainbowsrus, Thu Oct 2 15:08:16 2008
• very good point n/p - FRoberts, Thu Oct 2 15:10:09 2008
• RE: Not to mention..... - DanL, Thu Oct 2 18:25:02 2008
• RE: I was kidding about them moving their .. - DanL, Thu Oct 2 18:22:08 2008
• RE: I was kidding about them moving their .. - rainbowsrus, Thu Oct 2 19:41:15 2008
• RE: I was kidding about them moving their .. - DanL, Thu Oct 2 20:09:29 2008
• Great Litter! Congrats! n/p - Jeff Clark, Wed Oct 1 08:38:17 2008
• very nice congrats n/p - FRoberts, Wed Oct 1 19:27:39 2008