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19-Mar-06, 06:55 PM
|  | Subscriber | Join Date: Mar-06 Location: Figtree, NSW Age: 33 | | | |
Guinea Pigs are prone to just karkin' it from a scare (loud bangs etc). We've kept GP's for years, bred and showed them once upon a time too.
My concern with breeding any animals inc. rodents is if you continuously breed females so they are popping out babies every cycle, it becomes cruelty at a certain point, because she is always pregnant (and all the women in here who've had babies will know what I mean) and that is tiring and stressful on a female, whatever the species. And even though I can hear the arguments about them being always pregnant in nature, this is not so.
Thats why when we decide to breed reptile food, we will rotate our females so they are less stressed and get at least one cycle off. (I mean that they will have at minimum 21 days rest, before we allow them to breed again). Call me a bleeding heart, but I love ALL animals, all animals deserve to be treated humanely, regardless of their species.
Guinea Pigs don't have many babies usually, you'd be better off with rabbits from an offspring point of view. They can breed from a young age, but it is risky to allow it, as it can kill the pregnant mother. You also can't breed females after a certain age as their pelvis's fuse or something like that. (Its been a while since I did GP physiology).
If you already have rats, and are breeding them- have you thought of getting more if your problem is that your other snakes eat all the small rats before they get a chance to get bigger? Then you could keep one lot to breed for your large snake/s....
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