It was a great Father's Day for me! When I checked on my female Green Rat, this morning, she had two eggs out and more on the way! She ended up with a clutch of five, which surprised me very much, as this is her first clutch! I expected maybe three eggs at the most, for her first time.

She is part of a true locality pair from Mt. Hopkins in the Santa Ritas, given to me by my friend, Diego Ortiz.

Here she is before her pre-laying shed, which happened about ten days ago.


After the fourth egg was laid.


The final count. She vacated the nesting box as soon as I opened her tub - and did not seem tired at all!


Happy Father's Day to all the other dads out there!
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-Toby Brock
Southwestern Center for Herpetological Research

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• Green eggs, but no ham!!! - tbrock, Sun Jun 20 19:02:15 2010
• RE: Green eggs, but no ham!!! - BillMcgElaphe, Sun Jun 20 21:47:31 2010
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• RE: Green eggs, but no ham!!! - tbrock, Mon Jun 21 20:45:55 2010
• RE: Green eggs, but no ham!!! - mattkau, Tue Jun 22 00:25:44 2010
• RE: Green eggs, but no ham!!! - tbrock, Tue Jun 22 07:06:17 2010
• RE: Green eggs, but no ham!!! - mattkau, Tue Jun 22 08:52:18 2010
• RE: Green eggs, but no ham!!! - mattkau, Tue Jun 22 08:55:30 2010
• RE: Green eggs, but no ham!!! - tbrock, Fri Jun 25 21:17:07 2010
• RE: Green eggs, but no ham!!! - mattkau, Wed Jun 30 21:21:36 2010
• RE: Green eggs, but no ham!!! - tbrock, Fri Jul 2 07:13:44 2010
• RE: Green eggs, but no ham!!! - mattkau, Tue Jul 6 00:31:20 2010