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Post by Deleted on Apr 11, 2016 9:04:51 GMT -5
Just had all of the girls out, and took one glance at Nutmeg and freaked out! She is losing her fur and got a real good tum on her .... but she went to my vasectomised hob AND we sent the bits off for histo so I KNOW we took the right pieces out of Barley.
Had a good feel, and it's all squishy so I'm 95% sure she's falsing after going to Barley. She'd better be because she had a late litter last year and she's down for having a well-deserved break this year.
I had a serious panic for a moment there. Her sister went to an entire hob on the same day, so got a decent comparison for palpation .... and it's reassured me. I might just set her up in a birthing suite with a nestbox just in case though ...
Does anyone else have this panic when they first use a v-hob?
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Post by crazylady on Apr 11, 2016 13:04:51 GMT -5
lol often lol they are good at pretending there pregnant and also good at pretending they are not lol fingers crossed he did not have any viable sperm when you put them together only time will tell ! but don't worry your not alone most breeders cross everything when they use a new vas for the first time I was once caught out a vet took muscle instead of tube I ended up with a litter the hob had a free visit for another vasectomy lol take care bye for now
Bev
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Apr 11, 2016 13:49:29 GMT -5
Post by Heather on Apr 11, 2016 13:49:29 GMT -5
Yah, Lady Lola's really good at the whole...guess if you can. Last year when she falsed she looked like a wee melon. This year she was with Tico but he was mean to her and it was early so she falsed. She was in the nursery though, as I wasn't sure what her daughters might do if she delivered a litter. She was behaving and looking like she might be, so to the nursery with her. I will be in the sweating it out in a couple of years because I need to have another v-hob done and the surgeon has never done the procedure before on a ferret.
ciao
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Post by Deleted on Apr 11, 2016 13:49:55 GMT -5
Mine seem to be especially talented at fooling me!
Had several jills false after matings last year and they truly had me duped. I was bouncing with excitement waiting for the squeaks. I was so convinced about one of them, that 4 days after her due date I took her into work for ultrasound and x-ray because I wondered why the babies hadn't arrived ....
Naughty girls!
Glad I'm not the only one who has to play the 'is she, isn't she' game. I have to resist the temptation to take them all into work for scans (giggle)
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Apr 11, 2016 13:58:23 GMT -5
Post by Heather on Apr 11, 2016 13:58:23 GMT -5
Lady Lola seems to have passed this on to her one daughter (I knew she was with an experienced v-hob) but man did she look pregers, right down to the swollen mammary glands, naked belly and everything. She actually looked more pregers than her mom who'd been with a hob. This of course had me second guessing and wondering if I'd put her in with her father instead of her mother (and what kind of idiot was I that I can't tell my jills apart). Those girls once they've dropped their winter weight are really too close in looks for my liking lol. There are subtle differences but ouch and I couldn't feel Lady Lola's micro chip. The girls will be chipped in the fall as I'm hoping to breed one of them next spring.
ciao
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Apr 11, 2016 14:06:22 GMT -5
Post by Deleted on Apr 11, 2016 14:06:22 GMT -5
Lady Lola seems to have passed this on to her one daughter (I knew she was with an experienced v-hob) but man did she look pregers, right down to the swollen mammary glands, naked belly and everything. She actually looked more pregers than her mom who'd been with a hob. This of course had me second guessing and wondering if I'd put her in with her father instead of her mother (and what kind of idiot was I that I can't tell my jills apart). Those girls once they've dropped their winter weight are really too close in looks for my liking lol. There are subtle differences but ouch and I couldn't feel Lady Lola's micro chip. The girls will be chipped in the fall as I'm hoping to breed one of them next spring. ciao It does seem to pass down. Mischief (Nutmeg, Daisy and Petal's Mum) is a superb falser. I'm hoping she is pregnant at the moment, she's doing a good impression of it, but she has fooled me with that before! She gets the biggest belly and blows all her coat and nests down and then .... nothing! It appears to have passed down to Nutmeg, and has also passed down to another of her girls Bandit who is owned by a good friend. She was having a panic because she'd not seen her in season, then she showed me a pic and she looked preggers ... turns out Bandit must have snook into season and her half sister must have brought her out of season by ragging her around by the scruff and Bandit went straight into a false pregnancy! That's a new one on me, I have to say. They love to have 'air babies'! |
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Apr 11, 2016 14:18:51 GMT -5
Post by Heather on Apr 11, 2016 14:18:51 GMT -5
Oh, I've got the 4 poleys who are great at taking themselves out of season. I was giving the girls a hard time last year telling them that they had no need of any males {sigh} I was wondering if that was a fail safe built into the polecat (just in case there isn't a suitable hob)??!! It was Lady Lola's off season last year so it was a v-hob for her and her daughters were just a year old. They were hugely enthusiastic and decided to come in a couple of times but decided after the first time that hobs were highly overrated and took themselves out. It didn't mean they were any less likely to deliver airbabies and be really bitchy for the couple of weeks afterwards.
ciao
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Apr 11, 2016 17:26:17 GMT -5
Post by nancyl on Apr 11, 2016 17:26:17 GMT -5
Kaina is doing a fabulous job of incubating her airbabies. I let Kailen drag her around when she came in and I'm 99% positive it's a false since she was barely swollen and I don't think he was able to actually breed her. I'll put her in the whelping cage for a couple of days just in case. She's normally very sweet so I wonder how she'll be after she "delivers". Her mama becomes a raging h*ll-b**ch.
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Apr 11, 2016 19:37:40 GMT -5
Post by Heather on Apr 11, 2016 19:37:40 GMT -5
Oh, Nancy that's my Lady Lola. That's how I know she's had her airbabies. Up until the weekend, Lady Lola was sweet, snuggly, you'd reach into her nest and she'd give head rubs and kisses. I reached into her nest on Sunday and she bit me and chased me out of the nest. We were snuggling a bit later and she bit me again....yah...airbabies and I've lost my wee snuggly girl until the next time
ciao
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Post by crazylady on Apr 13, 2016 12:34:58 GMT -5
LoL she will come back and then you will have to go through it all over again lol I have quite a few in air baby mode funny thing is they take it out on keith ( my son ) as if its all his fault lol ( guess they can taste male hormone and were not impressed with the vas hob lol) I think the best is she isn't she jill I have ever had was ebony ( yes a poley lol) she never gained an ounce looked just like a drain pipe and we all thought nope not this time her due date came and went she was four days over ( they arrived april fools day lol) three huge hobs ! those babies must of been tucked up in her rib cage how still beats me lol but I know who the biggest fool was that year and it certainly wasn't ebony I swear she had a grin from ear to ear as if to say you humans don't know a d** thing lol take care bye for now
Bev
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Post by Deleted on Apr 30, 2016 9:13:39 GMT -5
Good news is that Nutmeg was falsing so Barley is fine to carry on his job!
Daisy was also falsing and turns out only Mischief was pregnant. Nutmeg and Daisy are nursing air babies right now! Silly girls!
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