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I put 6.14 down for brumation today and I was just wondering if anyone else has done the same and if not when do you?

I put the hogs down on the 1st of Dec. here.

-Chris
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Christopher E. Smith
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Captive Bred Herps
Wildlife Research & Consulting Services, LLC

I put mine down a bit late last season... This year I was thinking of putting them down December 1st and waking them up in mid March...

I put mine down from Halloween to Christmas. I'll also have a second later brumation for some I'm putting a little more weight on from December to March.

I didn't brumate last winter as we had an unusually long and cold winter and my Westerns seemed no worse for the wear because of it. I also had a fairly typical breeding season, in fact a little bit better than last years. I haven't determined whether or not I'm going to brumate this year or not because it appears that I still have several gravid females this late in the season.
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Troy Rexroth
Rextiles

I think we have to ask ourselves why we are brumating. I try to follow nature's cycles, believing brumation is a good rest period for the females, that enhances their hormonal activity in the spring. It is apparent that some females do not need brumation, as they ovulate and lay eggs anyway. I have heard that males need cool weather to produce viable sperm. This isn't always true, as I have had males that were never brumated, and they mated and produced offspring.

While I intend to brumate mine in mid-November, I don't think there is any purpose in keeping them brumated for 3 months. I'll bring them out after 6 weeks and see what happens.

Wendell

For Brumation, how anyone does this?
i really want to do this for my hogs,
but i don't have any cues to do so,
can anyone tells me for equipments, tools, or materials in order to provide a place for keeping the temperation from 12-15C ??
how to do that?!