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Sukie, Dr. Judi Bell may be onto something. I have a menagerie of
fuzzbutts-MF, Unknowns (no marks or tattoos, but altered and decented),
jills and hobs. I have controlled the lighting on all of my fuzzbutts. I
have yet had a problem with adrenals and a couple of my older ones are MF
and no health problems as of yet. (Knock on wood). My jills are always a
year are more in age before their 1st heat cycle. That way the jills only
has 1 litter a year. Less stress on their bodies and I get healthy, large
kits from the litters. I have also found that less lighting on my hobs,
doesn't stress them out either. They can actually play together a couple
of months a year, without the vicious fighting. Their scrotums shrink
almost down to the size of a tack head (with form as a usual scrotum). I
just received a 6 month old jill and a 5 month old hob. I will keep her
lighting down to a very minimum until she is over a year old to be bred.
Now the 5 month old hob is another story. He plays like a kit, but has the
scrotum size of an adult hob in rut. He can be kinda testy with the other
fuzzbutts when out to play, so I have to watch him or he starts getting
aggressive with my alters and jills. Sometime he calms down once I say no
Chesty. I'm not sure of their lighting before I got the 2, but each day
that goes by, Chesty seems to settle down a little more. I'm hoping it is
because of my lighting and not the 'no' word. I don't want him going
ballistic next year before he is a year old and in early rut. I check his
scrotum every day and it has not gotten smaller yet. Now that this subject
has been brought forward, I wish I had kept a journal. I would like as
much info that comes out by Dr. Bell as possible. The more the better. It
could be a very good way to reduce the instances of adrenal and other
susceptible illnesses.
ANON
[DH]
[Posted in FML issue 2508]
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