| wintre cooling
hi everyone..
nicole a few basic things to think about with cooling...done wrong it will lead to problems with repertory infections etc..
firstly lets say a animal thats found in the north..while night temps in these type of areas may drop to 10 or below..the days temps are back up to mid to high 20s by the middle of the day. so with animals like this dont get entirly shut down
with diamonds how ever there cooling is far more improtant. and they need to be reduced to lower temps and longer periods at that temprature.
how ever on the age part we never wintre yearlings or for that matter 2 year olds of any species. we havent found this to have any differing effects on breeding at a later age. but with diamonds we didnt breed at three years old so they still had 2 years of cooling before breeding.
with species like jungles they dont get wintred at all..but the do have what we call a quite time..which is no feeding no added heat and little or no stimulation of any kind..
just some thoughts..
cheers paul.
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