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2mm makes a bit of a difference at 205mm Tilly should be 1678g so she is underweight. Torty should be 773g and Shelly is a great weight.
I'd just feed twice a day and add some pellets to the diet if you haven't already. So say weeds at one feeding and pellets at the other. I'm not seeing any need to x-ray her right now Danny
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02-04-2013, 08:31 PM | #12 |
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Thanks Dan Ill give more feeding a go When Tilly first layed eggs she was 190mm and 1410 grams and went down to 1360....so im guessing she was underweight then aswell? Ive been trying to fatten them up over the past 6 months but it doesnt seem to be happening anytime soon lol! slowly but surely im hoping they'll put it on soon
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You have to put the extra 5mm into the calculator so 205 would be 20.5cm etc
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Yeah....i put 20.5 for Tilly, 15.5 for Torty and 11.4 for Shelly
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Dan.....where do you get your calculations from? Is it a particular website or....? Would love to be able to keep a track of their weights and whats good and whats not without having to ask on here all the time lol!
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That's why I like Hailey's caculator better as it takes into account sex
Here you go http://www.ahailey.f9.co.uk/cond.htm Danny
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Thanks Dan
I suppose ill give x-raying a miss if you think its for the best Scott
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http://www.ahailey.f9.co.uk/menu.htm here it is
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Its been 3 months since i weighed them all and this is what came up today......
Torty - 760 grams (70 gram increase) Tilly - 1760 grams (190 gram increase) Shelly - 490 grams (130 gram increase) Admittingly Shelly has been having a growth spurt as of late and has got noticably bigger so i can understand her weight gain I havent got round to measuring them today cuz they're so wriggly i cant get it accuratly lol The day i posted (2nd April) i changed their normal stip bulb and heat lamp to a 160W combined bulb and they have been eating so much better and more active overall. This is the only change ive made so this must be the reason why they've gained weight Just updating this for Danny
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Everyone seems to be doing great now with the new bulb.
Danny
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