Holy Smokes....Pearl is giving birth now.....

Pink T. Monkey · Postby **Pink T. Monkey** » Sat Jul 07, 2007 4:09 am

Hi Andrew,

Have you seen any of your other skinks i.e. different species / subspecies display this protective behaviour ?

Tigergenesis · Postby **Tigergenesis** » Sat Jul 07, 2007 5:17 pm

Pink T. Monkey wrote:Hi Andrew,

Have you seen any of your other skinks i.e. different species / subspecies display this protective behaviour ?

Hey there! :hithere:

How are you and your blueys doing?

JWSR · Postby **JWSR** » Sun Jul 08, 2007 10:19 am

Belated congrats Zach! Cool video! I love Pearls colors and pattern, very pretty! I didn't see Pearl in your photo album, but I sure did see a lot of real beauties! I can tell you put your heart in your babies!

Postby **Zach** » Tue Jul 10, 2007 9:32 pm

Dragontears wrote:yeah Zach....where are you putting them? Do you want to come up and get a tank or two...or three?

YES!!! We'd love to bring the van up. I DID NOT expect all these mothers to have successful births. I'm pretty sure Sassy is gravid now too. :tired:

Postby **Zach** » Tue Jul 10, 2007 9:34 pm

JWSR wrote:Belated congrats Zach! Cool video! I love Pearls colors and pattern, very pretty! I didn't see Pearl in your photo album, but I sure did see a lot of real beauties! I can tell you put your heart in your babies!

Thanks, Jerry! I just sent you a PM about silkworms and didn't recognize it was you until just now!

Postby **Zach** » Tue Jul 10, 2007 9:35 pm

Pink T. Monkey wrote:Hi Andrew,

Have you seen any of your other skinks i.e. different species / subspecies display this protective behaviour ?

Good question...

Andrew, do you think they're actually being protective mothers, or do you think it's just an instinct for something else.....I'm just surprised I've never heard ANYTHING about BTS mothers being protective of their young.

JWSR · Postby **JWSR** » Wed Jul 11, 2007 7:29 am

Thanks, Jerry! I just sent you a PM about silkworms and didn't recognize it was you until just now!

I'm being incognito.... :shy:

DeadEye · Postby **DeadEye** » Wed Jul 11, 2007 8:07 am

How r they doin Zack ..To lazy to read everyting ....Um yere Lizz still kicks it with the twins . A sleepy lick and they know thats mum.There going out doors now in that big wire cage..Cute :love:

pics asap

AndrewSeike · Postby **AndrewSeike** » Wed Jul 11, 2007 11:08 am

Hi Zach!

Thanks for the PM on this thread. Sheesh I tell you I miss everything and it's hard to even find the ones I responded to.

If I ever seem to ignore anyone it's because I totally missed the thread or lost it. Just PM me if you'd like me to respond but I would normally if I saw it.

Anyways,

For all the years I've bred these guys I've seen it many times. It's good to know because the majority of my skinks are all tame - really calm adults but when they are just about to give birth some of them get really aggressive and attack me the moment I try to enter their area. Once the babies are born - sheesh it's pretty wild then too.

This is my little secret of what I do to stop the behavior - i remove the babies and wash the enclosure with new bedding. A day or two later if not a few hours they are tame as pie - back to their normal selves.

Do all the females do this? Nah - I don't even get a twitch from the orange mothers - they are so sweet.

However male breeders can become aggressive during the breeding season also so I'm careful.

I hope this helps,

Andrew

aggiegirl · Postby **aggiegirl** » Wed Jul 11, 2007 1:26 pm

What do you mean by "orange mothers?" :doh:

Jenn · Postby **Jenn** » Wed Jul 11, 2007 2:54 pm

I'm pretty sure he's talking about his orange northerns.

Lisa · Postby **Lisa** » Wed Jul 11, 2007 6:10 pm

Zach, how are all the bebbies doing? Too busy to post pictures eh? What with preparing all those bottles, all the diaper changes, nightly feedings and all :wink:

What do you plan on doing with them all? You could go the Apu route and have them perform for TV :lol:

Postby **Zach** » Wed Jul 11, 2007 10:43 pm

Andrew, so no difference among species?

Lisa, I hope to find them homes...man, Ray isn't kidding when he says he's mad for having so many babies -- I didn't expect them ALL to give birth! I keep saying that, but sheesh, they're coming all at once. :lol:

KyleWeiss · Postby **KyleWeiss** » Thu Jul 12, 2007 1:06 am

I told you what to expect, Zach. :edward:

KW

Postby **Zach** » Thu Jul 12, 2007 3:11 pm

KyleWeiss · Postby **KyleWeiss** » Thu Jul 12, 2007 7:46 pm

Zach wrote::lazy:

Hey, you should have had a little talk with Pearl. I considered a baby if I saw speckling, but she um, well, held out on me it seems.

KW

Lisa · Postby **Lisa** » Thu Jul 12, 2007 9:04 pm

Zach wrote:Lisa, I hope to find them homes...man, Ray isn't kidding when he says he's mad for having so many babies -- I didn't expect them ALL to give birth! I keep saying that, but sheesh, they're coming all at once.

Well derr!! I didn't think you were going to eat them or make shoes and handbags out of them! I meant, for the ones you don't find homes for on here, what other methods will you use to find homes for them?

Please don't say petshops or I'll stop coming on here.

(Sorry to any petshop workers out there. I don't hate petshops or their workers, I just don't agree with any type of animal being sold in them is all)

Lisa · Postby **Lisa** » Thu Jul 12, 2007 9:06 pm

KyleWeiss wrote:
Zach wrote::lazy:

Hey, you should have had a little talk with Pearl. I considered a baby if I saw speckling, but she um, well, held out on me it seems.

KW

pff, it's all about looks with you isn't it Mister? :nono:

...Lucky your Zack is a good lookin fella :hehe:

Postby **Zach** » Thu Jul 12, 2007 11:09 pm

None of the babies have their regular or adult colors yet; I'm excited to see if they do develop specking (pearl babies) the Peach babies are starting to develop the colors right now...

Lisa, I would never sell to a pet store; we'll hang on to all of them until they're sold I suppose; or you never know, we may end up keeping some but I can't imagine that! 10 is the max we can successfully take care of and feel good about it.

Jenn · Postby **Jenn** » Fri Jul 13, 2007 12:19 pm

By Zach's standards I can handle two more blueys!!!! :spot:

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