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Tony D
at Tue May 11 12:49:09 2010 [ Email Message ] [ Show All Posts by Tony D ]
"I know lots of people get their females as well fed and fat as they can but I have always had better luck with leaner females"
Me too. The idea to change things up was not so much to get them fat but to extend and better utilize their feeding season enough so that they would recover from the summer's breeding effort. Generally a second clutch could be handled, as long as they didn't go off feed too early, but a third clutch, though rare, always proved devistating to the female. In many cases they never recovered fully.
To me the big question is how do you or would you STOP the female from ovulating and laying a second or third clutch. That however is an avenue of inquiry that few "breeder" even care to follow. More is always better right? Maybe so but IMHO more is not better when you're tease feeding neonates for 6 weeks!
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RE: My experience with choices.. - Tony D, Tue May 11 12:49:09 2010