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Had a litter while I was eating lunch!
Her third year in a row. 16 babies 3 slugs.
Will post pics tonight.
Odd thing (from my experience anyway) I thought she would drop later as she is completely in shed right now.

Mayday,
. Congratulations. That is a nice size maurus litter. Rainbows and their birthing dates are hard to predict. I have had BRBs lay while opaque several times. I keep track of shedding dates and delivery dates and find no predictable pattern at all.
Jeff

>>Had a litter while I was eating lunch!
>>Her third year in a row. 16 babies 3 slugs.
>>Will post pics tonight.
>>Odd thing (from my experience anyway) I thought she would drop later as she is completely in shed right now.

Thanks.
My success with rainbows pales when compared to yours though.

I also keep very detailed records and have found no real patterns either. This female had 17 babies in 2002 and 14 in 2001 but both of those litters were in the first week of March.
My other female always had hers in late February.
But at any rate, the shed dates have made no sense. Sometimes they have young a few days after shedding sometimes a few weeks after.
And the ovulation dates are equally hard to make sense of. I can't seem to be able to predict when they will have them like Jeff Ronne can with Boa constrictors.