Congrats on the litter! I thought ghosts right away from the post below, but then thought I remembered you telling me you would only have double hets this year...still very cool though!





Okay, questions...or mainly one, but I'll give you the whole thought process around it...



How much of a marker is the "waxy poop" as you described it for a girl about to give birth?



Here's why I'm asking, for one thing, I still have this "too good to be true" feeling about two ovulations in one day from back about four months ago...you saw the picture (if you remember?) though and even though the hypo girl wasn't as obvious as the anery, she still looked to be ovulating and there isn't really another explanation for why she would have looked that way. Since then, she's been a totally random feeder, might feed for a few weeks in a row, might skip a few weeks, might feed every other week sometimes...feeding on weanling sized rats. To me she hasn't really acted like I would expect a gravid female to act, right after the suspected ovulation (for lack of a better way to describe it) she spent a few weeks curled up on the hot spot, but then since then hasn't really been on it all that much, where the anery girl has been glued to it since her ovulation (up until about the last few days anyways, now she's back and forth between the heat and the waterbowl a lot, laying inverted, all kinds of crazy stuff like that).



Here's kind of where I'm getting to, and sorry to make this longer than maybe it should have been...



Hypo girl hasn't to me "acted gravid", I can't figure out if sometimes I see her laying and looking a little thicker, or belly hanging down if I hold her up is actually from being gravid, or me wanting to see something that isn't there. She doesn't really look swollen from being gravid right now, although she's a big girl and if she's just carrying a small litter it might not be so obvious to see, along with her being so light colored it could hide some of the scales being stretched apart some too possibly? If it wasn't for having seen/known about the suspected ovulation and someone just showed her to me, I doubt I would think she was gravid...I only feel very little in her belly and can't say if that's babies, or an upcoming bowel movement...either way, it's not much. A week and a half or so ago she fed on a weanling rat, about 4 days ago I cleaned up a "waxy poop" just like you showed a picture of...so that's where my question is coming from as for wondering how much of a marker that is for things to be coming soon, because I've been even questioning if she's actually gravid or not.



Thanks for reading, sorry if I type too much, but I wanted to try to share all the thoughts in my head behind what I was wondering...I do appreciate your opinion very much!



Charlie

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