• Hello!

    Either you have not registered on this site yet, or you are registered but have not logged in. In either case, you will not be able to use the full functionality of this site until you have registered, and then logged in after your registration has been approved.

    Registration is FREE, so please register so you can participate instead of remaining a lurker....

    Please be certain that the location field is correctly filled out when you register. All registrations that appear to be bogus will be rejected. Which means that if your location field does NOT match the actual location of your registration IP address, then your registration will be rejected.

    Sorry about the strictness of this requirement, but it is necessary to block spammers and scammers at the door as much as possible.

Signs of possible double clutch?

carnivorouszoo

carnivorouszoo

Crazy Critter Lady
I'm a little concerned about my anery female, Shade. Her first clutch just hatched. She ate on Sunday, I had missed her going blue and she shed on Tuesday. Well, she only ate half her meal. She has been a touch thin since she laid and was eating like a piglet. I had been givine her 2 hopper or a hopper and a weanling, sunday she only at the hopper. So I decided to offer her another mouse today since she was being VERY active and she is ignoring it and creeping along her cage, almost like she did before she laid her first clutch. I felt along her length but I am not sure if I feel eggs or not. Other than the increase in activity and decreased appetite, what should I watch for in the case of a natural double clutch? She just got back over 200 grams. I'm terrified I will lose her if she doubles on her own. . .I would not have bred her had I known it would take so much out of her. The female that laid for me last year did not lose so much weight and condition as Shade did this year, but she also had much smaller eggs. . .
 
what should I watch for in the case of a natural double clutch?
Click to expand...
The types of things you're seeing would make me put a laying box in with her, just in case.

I'm terrified I will lose her if she doubles on her own. .
Click to expand...
Sadly you can't prevent a Corn from double-clutching. It doesn't take any encouragement on your part, like extra mating sessions. Either they do or they don't. However, second clutches are generally smaller and can contain a higher proportion of slugs, which will be easier to pass.

Just give her a laying box and give her some space, offering smaller food items at her regular intervals. With the first clutch just hatched, she'll lay any day if she's going to. If she's been eating well, then she's in as good a condition as you might hope for. You just have to leave the rest to nature now.
 
This is exactly when they double clutch- right when the first clutch is pipping! She should be okay. Just really feed her up after she lays. You could even go to a four day schedule with small mice, but I generally do every five days/1 adult mouse until they have regained much of their weight.

A yearling female I bought last summer came to me gravid, as a little surprise. She laid when she was about 84 grams and went down to 62! She made it through just fine, and now weighs 311 and has taken the year off...
 
Definitely sounds like a second clutch is a good possibility. I was hoping for no second clutches this year for several reasons, but my stripe girl is developing some lumps underneath and I think I know what that means! Her clutch is around day 47, so it won't be too long.
 
I gave her a laybox and she made a bee-line for it. Went straight in and started moving moss around. Right now I could careless if she has all slugs or a bunch more good eggs, I just want her to be ok. If I breed her in the future she will be 400 grams at least next time. I really did not expect to have a double clutcher. I'll make note of it in her file.
 
You must log in or register to reply here.
Back
Top