Beau Knows

Here you see a fired up Beau.  Notice the jet black beard on partial display.  This photo was taken shortly after I woke up Lolly from her long winter sleep.  Despite appearances, he was happy to see her and love blossomed quickly (and frequently) shortly after.

So Lolly and Beau have finally become better acquainted.  I am hopeful that one of his amorous advances will have been enough to consummate the relationship and in a bit over a month the fruitful results will become self evident.  With Lolly being a bit older this year and in great condition, we may even see several clutches in the season.  Wouldn't that be awesome.  I have plans this year to keep the babies a little longer with a view to picking out some good babies to work on producing some fine looking young. Without knowing the origins of Lolly's bloodlines, she is a fine looking animal.  Beau has some great pedigree behind him and has some fantastic potential in regards to producing beautiful babies.

So the house is a jumping.  All our critters are awake and active.  I picked up Bruce tonight and he felt like an absolute fatty!  I'll weigh all our reptiles at the start of next month, but if the feel of Bruce is anything to go by, he will have put on a ton.  I fed Lacey the last of the pinkie mice that I bought her to begin with.  For the last two weeks she has been scoffing 3 one after another without blinking at her weekly feed.  That was again the case last night.  Tonight, I couldn't even see any bulges where the mice would be digesting.  As a result, I bought some fuzzy mice (the next size up) today with a view to feeding them to her next week.  I am going to try and get some footage of her first feed of them to post up.  Should be really interesting with any luck.

Lots of critters.  Plenty of feeding and cleaning up after.  They are all happy and healthy, what more can you ask for!