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Tony D
at Mon May 10 14:10:39 2010 [ Email Message ] [ Show All Posts by Tony D ]
so I'm one year into my experiment and I have the following to report on providing animals with choices and communal caging.
When it comes to growth and weight gain I give this method a grade of 100%. Given a wider selection of temps to operate in, the animals made better use of the energy I gave them and were able to take more food, more often, and over an extended season.
When it comes to breeding I give the method a resound F. There is a lot that can go wrong any given year. This is the first season so there is time to bring the grade up but that EVERY snake I did this with threw slugs is just weird. I'm tempted to think that the biggest issue this season is that the change just threw my animals off their cycles but I just don't know. I honestly did not expect a bad result let alone one this bad.
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My experience with choises.. - Tony D, Mon May 10 14:10:39 2010
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