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Hi all,
Remember your first year breeding well please help me!!!

1. If ovulation is missed, how do you know a female might be gravid? Will she still be receptive to a male?

2. I have a large female who previously shed every three months and now she is shedding one month in-between this time. I haven't seen ovulation but she has bred over 7 times over the last four months. Is she gravid?

3. What can you palpate if she has already ovulated?

Please help me I'm sooo stressed...
Thank you all,
Jay

1) The female may lay belly up if she is gravid. She will show no interest in breeding.

2) It is possible she is gravid.

3) you can feel for eggs since she may have ovulated.

Good Luck and get the incubator ready just in case.

>>Hi all,
>>Remember your first year breeding well please help me!!!
>>
>>1. If ovulation is missed, how do you know a female might be gravid? Will she still be receptive to a male?
>>
>>2. I have a large female who previously shed every three months and now she is shedding one month in-between this time. I haven't seen ovulation but she has bred over 7 times over the last four months. Is she gravid?
>>
>>3. What can you palpate if she has already ovulated?
>>
>>Please help me I'm sooo stressed...
>>Thank you all,
>>Jay
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Thomas Jones
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Ok, thank you so much. But my female that you said might be gravid is currently breeding with my male. ??? Is that weird for a gravid female to still be copulating with a male?

Thanks,
J