I just weighed the kimbo again

Blotch · Postby **Blotch** » Wed Feb 27, 2008 8:44 pm

after 4 days (first weigh in was on Monday the 25th Feb @ 80g) the Kimbo is weighing in at 91.5g.

I also measured it and the total length was 26.2cm as opposed to 25cm four days ago.

Postby **Scotts1au** » Wed Feb 27, 2008 9:03 pm

Stop playing with it you'lle go blind :-)

Yeh my babies are growing about 1/2 inch a week.

Scott

Blotch · Postby **Blotch** » Wed Feb 27, 2008 9:29 pm

that's crazy!

He's not eating alot though - any hint on good food for babies? it seems the regular feed isn't good enough.

Postby **Scotts1au** » Wed Feb 27, 2008 9:48 pm

Mine go ape for eggs and raw meat (favourite it kanga), banana. Won't look at leaf veges. They are very fat.

Scott

Blotch · Postby **Blotch** » Wed Feb 27, 2008 9:55 pm

First time i fed it - it took dog food and finished it all.
Next it took egg but left some.
Then a little bit of banana and left the majority.
Then left the cat food and vegies.

if I don't feed it today - it's day 2 without food.

Lisa · Postby **Lisa** » Wed Feb 27, 2008 9:57 pm

Scotts1au wrote:Stop playing with it you'lle go blind

Scott

What was the previous owner feeding it on? Two days without food is alright, he looks healthy enough.

Blotch · Postby **Blotch** » Wed Feb 27, 2008 9:59 pm

yeah - it's just always hiding and i wanna make sure it's happy - i've never had a small one likethis - all mine have always been older.

The breeder fed it on fruit and cat food apparently.

Postby **Scotts1au** » Wed Feb 27, 2008 10:22 pm

Yeh frustrating my blotchies lick cat food, but leave it and the Easterns have a go at it in the morning.

Forgot to mention that they have eaten a few snails but not the reaction I was hoping for with chopped up one. The Easterns get into them though.

I still keep trying them with veges but I think they are spoilt. I would give them a spell and see if they eat veges if they get hungry enough but I'm trying to push them a bit in the lead up to Winter.

I figure in that case, if they are eating it, it is nutritious then go for it. Vit D etc aren't an issue being outside.

I'm chucking lots of bugs (beetles, slaters etc) in with them for sport rather than nutrition.

Scott

NomadOfTheHills · Postby **NomadOfTheHills** » Wed Feb 27, 2008 10:37 pm

Scotts1au wrote:Stop playing with it you'lle go blind Scott

and then the hair will start growing on your palms... :shock:

Postby **Scotts1au** » Thu Feb 28, 2008 3:03 am

This is a photo of Lizzy three weeks after I got her/it. The one in the middle. Note also the colour change - badly in need of a shed and currently in the process.

Three weeks ago.

A few days ago.

As you put it growing at an insane rate :-)

Scott

Tattoo · Postby **Tattoo** » Thu Feb 28, 2008 4:11 am

Wow that's some growth spurt on that blotched baby. Love the little chin it has. :lol:

Hockeyrulz48 · Postby **Hockeyrulz48** » Thu Feb 28, 2008 11:25 am

I love that pics of all the babies chillin out together. Blotch that sound like quite a growth rate. My are not really into food either. Like yours did they would lick it but not take. Although yesterday they started to really eat.

shingleback aus · Postby **shingleback aus** » Thu Feb 28, 2008 3:54 pm

wow thats an amazing growth in a short period of time and its coloring has even changed:D

Blotch · Postby **Blotch** » Thu Feb 28, 2008 5:43 pm

The colouring is the Same - however I've noticed more speckles over its body - but that could just be me paying attention to more as i study it closely.

Maybe the reason you say the colour has changed is due to the flash making the coulouring look lighter?

Fatal_S · Postby **Fatal_S** » Thu Feb 28, 2008 5:51 pm

Luke, how do you know Aus is talking to you, not Scott? :lol:

I don't know either.

Blotch · Postby **Blotch** » Thu Feb 28, 2008 5:54 pm

I don't

If he is - I replied - if not - he knows anyway.

*shrugs*

Postby **Scotts1au** » Thu Feb 28, 2008 6:28 pm

I think he was talking to me but I was just trying to illustrate that Blotch's baby's growth rate is in the expected range. Mine are gunna slow down dramatically soon. I expect that Blotch's will become a baby Huey in no time.

Yeh colour will bounce back after a shed. Lisa sent me some photos of Ralphies development and he started off similar.

Scott

Postby **Scotts1au** » Thu Feb 28, 2008 6:35 pm

They are similar sizes at the moment. Hey Blotch I'll give you a race :-)

better get out the roids.

Scott

Blotch · Postby **Blotch** » Thu Feb 28, 2008 6:46 pm

have you measured and weighed them yet?

If not - you should do so and we'll constantly compare. How old are they again?

I just weighed the kimbo again

I just weighed the kimbo again

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