My first year breeding

I think I'm going to have to switch from tong feeding to drop feeding, one of the babies is super high strung and kept jumping out of the bin, caught it 3 times..but the 4th time, right on the floor. I had to dive to grab it before it hid behind something x.x Needless to say we're both traumatized after that lol.

Every baby after that, I just dropped the pinky in the bin. I prefer tong feeding but in such small tubs, it's too risky for the high strung ones. There's no where to go but out x.x

So far I am 13/13 eaters. I skipped Geronimo, after that ordeal, I moved to him tomorrow's group.

25/26 babies have eaten, I offered Geronimo a pinky but hasn't eaten it yet, I'll check again in the morning. 5 more to go tomorrow.

Originally Posted by inu009

25/26 babies have eaten...

That's a huge congratulations! I always breathe a sigh of relief after the first meals are inside the babies.

FWIW I don't even try to mess with tongs when feeding bitty babies. (The exception is if I'm working with a picky eater.) Too easy for things to go sideways.

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Originally Posted by Caryl

That's a huge congratulations! I always breathe a sigh of relief after the first meals are inside the babies.

FWIW I don't even try to mess with tongs when feeding bitty babies. (The exception is if I'm working with a picky eater.) Too easy for things to go sideways.

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yes I have learned my lesson lol. Geronimo ate last night thankfully.

Sooo right now I'm at 30/31 eaters. Hopefully by morning I'll be 31/31.

Finally getting to weight the babies so far averaging 7 grams, after first meal and first (mouse) poop. In terms of sexing, I thought I was going to use the light trick since they're all amels, but either I dont know what I'm doing (plausible) or everyone I've checked so far has been a girl lol.

Edit: 31/31!!

Have I mentioned how hard it's going to be to decide who I am keeping?

Cleaned out his tub and weighed this one today and they're GORGEOUS, all that red. Also I can now tell the difference between who does and doesn't have belly checkers and this one doesn't. So it's probably a (low expression?) motley right?

That's amazing that they've all eaten! Such a good feeling.

Looks like a typical motley to me. Very nice.

Originally Posted by inu009

Have I mentioned how hard it's going to be to decide who I am keeping?

Cleaned out his tub and weighed this one today and they're GORGEOUS, all that red. Also I can now tell the difference between who does and doesn't have belly checkers and this one doesn't. So it's probably a (low expression?) motley right?

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Awesome!!! It is really wonderful that they're all eating!! (Including your pretty Amel Motley.)

Deciding on keepers can really be difficult. How many do you plan to hang onto?

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Originally Posted by Caryl

Awesome!!! It is really wonderful that they're all eating!! (Including your pretty Amel Motley.)

Deciding on keepers can really be difficult. How many do you plan to hang onto?

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The plan is/was(?) 2, one snow, one Amel. But now there's like 3 amels I want to keep lol