Last week my pastel male and a normal female bred. They had cooled for 3 weeks and were locked up for 2 days straight. I separated them a few days and tried to put them together again this weekend, but didn't observe a second lock up.
My question is this, her cage, usually very stable in temps just recently rose like 8 degrees because the day was warm yesterday and the room is on the sunny side of the house. I had a cooling fan in the window on a rheostat but only because the temps here started to drop to 50 at night I removed it so I wouldn't get a draft through the fan grills.
Now I guess the real question I have is, the warmer temps for a few hours, would that be enough to throw her out of cycle or cause her to ovulate early? I found her today on her side and it does look like she ate, I won't dare say its ovulation because it's still mid way up and I will have to see over lunch if it moved down to her lower third, but if it is possible I was expecting a nice sized clutch because she is 2600 grams and he is 1400 but can one two day breeding be enough? and if it is ovulation is it so early that it will hurt her and or lead to only a really small clutch like one maybe three eggs?
Any help would be great. Hopefully this didn't do anything and since her temps are back down I can get them to lock up again and get a few more weeks into the season before she actually does something like ovulate.
Thanks again
