hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha....



I just want to thank you all for participating in my 'study'. The whole point of this post, was to see where people stood on this apparently super-contraversial topic. Meanwhile, we got a pretty good debate out of it all, with logical points being made by both sides, not to mention the laughs. While I do feel it would have only gotten funnier if this thread was allowed to continue, I felt that it is necessary to come clean and tell the truth...



I do not utilize hormones or other chemicals for that matter with any of my monitors, nor would I ever contemplate using them on my animals. I do not think that monitors should be produced in such a 'factory type' situation. They deserve to be kept and treated as the monitors they are.



Going back to FR's original question, which I had started the whole debate from, I suppose the reason why my female has been so productive, is based on my husbandry skills, and allowing my female to be healthy to the point, where she is comfortable behaviorally, and physiologically, to cycle, and produce eggs. This is why my animals continue to breed, I have apparently found the 'niche' that they seem to do best in, as far as reproduction goes. WHile I have not found that niche for any of my other species, it is all a matter of learing, and testing new things.



Most people set their animals up in a fashion, where, even though their animals are not succeeding, or doing well, they fail to fix any problems or adjust their husbandry accordingly. My husbandry is in a constant state of change, where I am constantly adapting it to the needs of my animals, according to the behaviors and cues my animals show me.



So I hope that there wasn't anybody who ran out in the last 24 hours or so and bought some PGH's, and shot up their animals, as although it sounded clever(muwahahhahaha), and possible, it surely would not work. While it probably would force ovulation, you most certainly would never receive viable ova, as ova require certain physical conditions in order to mature. This has to do with food and energy uptake. So the chances of administering the hormones at the opportune moment is very unlikely to happen, and I would not recommend anybody trying it out for themselves...



So again, I apologize if anybody took me seriously, and to clarify, I certainly do not experiment with hormones on my collection of frail, easy-to-kill animals. I am not a person who is money hungry when it comes to monitors, and am not someone who would ever want to mass produce them through possibly harmful methods, just to turn a buck. My animals are doing what they are doing, as far as their reproductive cycling goes, I am doing something in my husbandry which favors that..



Again, thanks for the laughs, and for the debate. Cheers everyone, have a nice day..





Bob
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