My goodness, what a scale this turned out to be! It is meant for a laboratory and very complicated, but very accurate at these small amounts. At 13 days old, a male hatchling weighed 3.86 grams, then 4.63 grams at 18 days old. His sister is 2 days younger and weighed 3.12 grams at 11 days and 3.68 grams at 16 days. She had a setback, is a little behind her brothers and had to be isolated so that we can make sure of what she is eating. And the other male weighed 4.07 grams at 10 days and 4.99 grams at 15 days. He is already a little porker!
Our egg (which seems larger than usual to me) weighs 5.95 grams at 46 days of incubation. We will get a birth weight for you on this baby, it should be hatching very soon. I am going to guess that the average newborn weighs about 2 grams, but this one might be closer to 3. I don't understand why this egg is so big, but it was bigger than normal when layed and was the only egg of the clutch that came out with a good shell.
And I told you the wrong weight in an earlier post. We caught Celeste in late April and she could not have been out of her first hibernation for very long at that point. She weighted 4.5 grams, was 7 grams a month later and 10 grams after another month. She came from an area in Utah where all the collareds are smaller than what we normally see. She and the adults are dues for another weighing, we have not checked them since June.
This is Hobbs, the porker, right after he got out of his egg.
"It's been hard day's night and I've been working like a dog!" photo by oldcrota
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Valerie Rae
We may have all come on different ships, but we're in the same boat now.
--Martin Luther King, Jr.--
God bless the USA
hope he's getting his and Cochiti's bags packed for the trip to Jersy soon, hehehheee.
kinda meant to be maybe???? LOL 