losing too much weight

[smeagel]

My male pastel and one of my females are losing too much weight. Should I warm them back up and try to put some weigh back on them, then cool them back down to breed again, or will it be too late to try and breed them again?

[BoidKeeper]

Are you cooling them or cycling them?
Cheers,
Trevor

[Tim_Cranwill]

You should be warming them up and cooling them down each day (12hrs warm, 12hrs cool). How long do they go without heat?

[smeagel]

sorry i should have said this. they warm up each day at 7am. then the heat and lights get turned off at 5pm. my other female and het male are fine. breeding and not loosing weight. they are cycling now

[mykee]

What do you consider "too much weight"?

[smeagel]

the male lost 150 grams and the female lost 100 grams.

[smeagel]

sory i forgot to mention they lost it in 2 months time.

[zero&stich]

I ran into the same senerio smeagle. I vouched to keep her away from the male and bring her back up to par. If I have to wait until next year, so be it, lol.

But I'd like to hear what others have to say since I kinda in the same boat to an extent.

[smeagel]

so any advice on what might be the best to do? any advice is greatly appeciated

[mykee]

Well, if the two in question lost that weight without a poop or a really big pee, that seems like a lot of weight. If they're still a good weight (what weight are they?) I would keep them together and keep trying, but if they're borderline breeding weight, then I would seperate them, and try to get them eating. It all really depends on the females weight now.

[smeagel]

right now she weighs in at 1300g.

[zero&stich]

That seems small to me. My female is at 1800g's right now. And from the good advice I got from here I decided to get her higher in wieght.

[smeagel]

yeah it is small for breeding i think, but i wanted to make sure on that. Oh well there is always next year.

[mykee]

Weight isn't always the 'be all and end all' of whether or not to breed. I've got a few 1200-1500g girls that I'm attempting to breed this year jsut because they've got good mass on their bodies. It's about more than just the scale.

[Jeff_Favelle]

I'm with Mykee. Weight is not the be all end all. I have two 2000g females that I wouldn't even think of trying for this year's breeding. Yet, last year I had a 1300g female give 6 perfect eggs and a 1220g female give 5 perfect eggs.

There's more to breeding than weighing the females.

[BoidKeeper]

I agree with mykee and Jeff too. It's a weight lenght thing, not just a weight thing. A 1500g female that is 4' is one thing but a 1500 female that is 5 feet is another story altogether.
Cheeers,
Trevor

[smeagel]

well she doesn't have mass on her. when you look at her u wouldn't guess that she weighs that much. she looks long and slender.

[Jeff_Favelle]

well she doesn't have mass on her. when you look at her u wouldn't guess that she weighs that much.

THAT'S what you should be going by. Not weight or weight loss. You can tell if a female will go just by looking at her. That is, you can tell if she has a CHANCE of going. Whether or not she actually goes.........

[smeagel]

thanks for the advice everyone, now i have more than enough time to get her nice and thick for next year.