Just thought I'd share our new little "baby" at 4 months old.

http://chaoscat.lowerground.net/hedgehog/

poor thing is quilling right now (losing baby quills to get adult ones) so
he's angry at anything and everything.

I'm also expecting 3 clutches of corn snakes this year (none from the female
who had eggs last year-she's resting!), and I have leopard gecko eggs in the
incubator (my first!! And they have veins!!!) so this should be exciting.

Now I just have to sell my 1.2 house snakes and 1.1 spotted pythons so I'll
have more space.

-cat

He's a cutie! Is the blue spot for temporary identification?

BTW, I've got two pairs of corns breeding, too. :-P I can loan the male
snow if you can use him, but I still haven't figured out who the boy is
in the other pair. :-/

Jennifer

Their tails don't look significantly different?

I bought probes this weekend (and had a good run of practicing using
them with D&N several weeks back, sexed half their collection!). I've
got Sunday off and am planning to come down to the warehouse - shall
we play pokey-pokey-what's-under-that-scale with your corns??

I also learned how to sex adult uromastyx by sight this weekend. Gotta
love the ol' Dr. Doug Dix lesson-on-the-fly!

fr0glet

I haven't gotten them out to compare, to tell the truth.

Sure, if you feel confident. You can come see the house, too! We
should get the keys Saturday night. We'll be gaming there Sunday night,
chairs or no chairs.

Is it the size of the femoral pores and the yellowish strands coming out
of the male's pores?

Jennifer

Yep, the blue was there so the breeder could tell the albinos apart.

3 of my females went this year, one is on a year's leave, and the other just
hasn't been interested. All my males are still ready and willing, though!

-cat

Oh what a cute little critter! Some years ago in Germany we've kept a small
hedgehog baby over the winter. He was so tiny that he'd stay in a hand. I
remember also that it was a smelly mess. How do you manage that?

Anna

If you think the two of us can control them enough to hold their tails
still. If they're all nutty wiggly and of significant size, I'd want
more hands to help.


WOOHOO! Count me in!


I think yellowish strands coming out of male's femoral pores (a waxy
discharge) is specific to much older male animals - I know I've seen
that in male leopard geckos, but only those that were already several
years old. My male leo is a 2002, and hasn't got the waxy monkey goin'
on yet.

Actually he showed me that males' hemipenal bulges down the tail are
precisely parallel - behind the vent appears like the letter H without
the cross bar. His big females have large tail tendons in the same
area as the hemipenes - but they're slightly closer together on the
vent end and farther apart at the tail end - like a letter V without
the point.

And of course, mali females are all mundane and brown, while mali
males are STUPENDOUSLY GORGEOUS!!

fr0glet

Err...
Sorry for butting in...
Gaming??
Like a Lan party or something?

AD
(currently addicted to Morrowind,formerly of Counter-Strike)

Oh, Cat, how ADORABLE he is!

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Barbara

Mine isn't smelly at all. He actually poos in one corner of his cage, and
nowhere else. I just make sure to pick it up quick!

-cat