>>Records are one of those funny things: no one *likes* putting the time and effort in, and 95% or more of the time they go unused...but when something *does* go wrong, good records can make the difference between a quick and accurate diagnosis and loosing an animal.
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I wholeheartedly agree!! Each and every one of my snakes, adults, subadults, babies, here visiting for a while etc. has it's own record card. I expend a lot of time and energy keeping up on them and yeah, I know I miss some entries. Busy cleaning and forget to enter a shed, feed a rack and forget to mark all the cards etc. For the most part though, every feed and shed is recorded. Anything odd is also recorded. During breeding season I have a secondary card for recording all breeding related activity.

And yeah, for the most part I don't go back and use this data. But, (there's always a "but" when I do, I find it invaluable. This latest event would not have been earth shattering. She couldn't care less about missing my miscalculated due date. When she's ready, she will drop her litter just like her ancestors have done for millennia without our help. Being able to figure out it was my mistake now is a huge relief to my piece of mind. Now I know she's right on track and I have to wait a bit longer for those last babies. Without those records to fall back on and find my mistake, I would have gone nuts over the next few weeks worrying about what was wrong.
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Thanks,


Dave Colling

www.rainbows-r-us-reptiles.com



0.1 Wife (WC and still very fiesty)
0.2 kids (CBB, a big part of our selective breeding program)

LOL, to many snakes to list, last count (02/01/2010):
42.61 BRB
27.40 BCI
And those are only the breeders

lots.lots.lots feeder mice and rats

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