Has anyone bred hondos with the female under 400 grams without complications? My female is 310 grams but is eating like a pig. She'll probably be at 400 in a month or two
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Think they'll go ?
davester
Feb 22, 2006 08:12 PM
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davester
Feb 22, 2006 09:09 PM
She just had a good meal and is at 340 grams.
Any replies appriciated.
Rtdunham
Feb 22, 2006 11:17 PM
>>Has anyone bred hondos with the female under 400 grams without complications? My female is 310 grams but is eating like a pig. She'll probably be at 400 in a month or two.
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i'd bet she'll go, especially IF you can wait til after her second post-brumation shed to start pairing her up. Maybe even til after her third.
terry
davester
Feb 23, 2006 12:27 AM
O.K., I remember you mentioning before about copulation after their second shed post brumation. I guess the females scent gets stronger with every shed? When I introduced the male he didn't really give chase but they did a lot of twitchen'
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Dawnrenee2000
Feb 23, 2006 09:27 AM
I will be breeding my hondo for the first time this year too. Yours are beautiful! Good luck with them.
I have been told also thats its best to wait till the second shed, which I plan to do. This will by my girls first time, but big daddy here is an ole pro at schmoozing the ladies 
davester
Feb 23, 2006 04:00 PM
Thanks Dawn, keep us posted on how yours are doing!
Rtdunham
Feb 23, 2006 05:06 PM
>>O.K., I remember you mentioning before about copulation after their second shed post brumation. I guess the females scent gets stronger with every shed? When I introduced the male he didn't really give chase but they did a lot of twitchen'!
males might twitch out of stimulation, but female twitching is more often rejection, throwing up curls to push the male off, that sort of thing, not unlike male combat behavior. when they're ready, you'll know it. also, i don't know that the scent gets stronger with every scent, i think the ovulation process reaches a point of readiness in a way that coincides with a shed cycle. the switch from non-breeding to breeding is not so much a gradual change, in my experience, as it is more abrupt: not ready, not ready, not ready, ooops: ready!
terry
davester
Feb 23, 2006 06:56 PM
So I am looking foward to introducing the male multiple times. No problem, thanks for the insight!
