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RE: Females have been with males. Now wh

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Posted by: toshamc at Sat Oct 18 19:52:28 2008   [ Email Message ] [ Show All Posts by toshamc ]  
   

There is no set standard for what you want to know.

The female is always developing follicles -- once they reach a certain size and if she has been with a male she will dedicate some of those follicles to maturation and fertilization -- if she hasn't been with a male she'll absorb them. Your job is to make sure that she is introduced to a male early enough so that she doesn't absorb her follicles and insure that when the follicles get to the right size - she has fresh sperm stored up to fertilize the eggs.

If your female's natural cycle puts her ovulation next spring it's not necessarily going to speed up just because you started breeding her earlier.
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