With all this talk of communal housing why do you guys only keep one male with a bunch of females?
Why not multiple males too?
When found in the wild in groups (in mattresses as stated) aren't there more than one male in that group
I do keep more than one male with a group of females together. i mentioned that a few times below.
last year i tried bonding sevral males in a unit by themselves 9no females) more just an experiment to see what happens.
When all males were first placed in the cage they stayed restless for a few days. But they did calm down and they can be kept together in a group at any time.
But WOE to throwing a female in with 5 or 6 males. LOL!
Sometimes the things i post are just experiments. i would reccomend 3-4 females with one to 2 males (if you are going to keep larger groups0 otherwise it is not neccessary and you can just slpit them up.
When i do want to keep larger groups with ONE male , it is becaue it is a special new male and i want him to bond with the 5-6 females he will be breeding. If i want that rare high dollar male to breed that many females then YES I will bond them the season before. The females can alway be removed and put into seperate cages during breeding. But what is assures me is they are bonded and will behaive in a safe manner and not eat each other. So no worries.
Also IF is plit a bonded group up that is to breed to ONE bonded male. i will for example, take 3 out and leave the male in with that group for a day and swicth between the groups.
But what i most often do is leave all 6 females in a unit and the gravid ones get removed and that assures the attention to the females that are not yet gravid DO get gravid.
So lets say i have 1.6 in a unit.. If I leave them all together during breeding season and I open the unit and one female is gravid i remove her to her own uuit. Then in a couple days i will see another and remove her then there are 4 females left. Next couple days i see another gravid female and do the same. Then there are 3 left, and so on. So you see it is all common sense once someone start the bonding process the rest will fall into place with common sense. The female get their time alone and their are less females in a unit. UNTIL they lay their eggs. then it is back to that group. i may choose to seprrate the group or even add that breeder male to a females unit that already leyed. The timeing of the gravid females is not always at the same time. So after the initial clucth there is a lot of seperation.
So leaving them all together is just to get the females gravid. once the deed has been done the females go into their own unit.
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