Dood":a4yvuwjo said:
However, what they do have is a 14 to 16 day cycle of peak fertility meaning every 14 to 16 days is when the most ovum will mature if she is bred and the litters will have the greatest number.
Does often know when this time is since a larger number of ovum that are ready to be fertilized will be putting more hormones into her system and making her more sexually receptive.
So a doe can pretty much get pregnant at any time but you will have the biggest litters when she is receptive and the signs to look for are shown in Heritage Homesteads link.
I hope you're right about the litter size because Zira was receptive and bred today!
Never thought of this as a "method" as a potential for bigger litters.
I tried to breed her for the first time a few days ago but she wasn't into it so i thought i'd try everyday until she felt ready and put acv in the colony water.
Today i saw her mounting the neutered buck, which is a big thing to do for her considering that she is more of a classy, outsider with dignity where the oter girls are more random and hyper.
Put her in with the buck and it seemed as if she was dancing around him, i don't know what it was but she was playful and the first time i was witnessing that kind of behaviour.
It looked like dog foreplay.. when they run around before getting to bizniz.
Later she lifted, and her mood gradually changed with every take.
She looked annoyed, ignored the buck unless he tried to mount her and then warned him by stomping with her both front feet with against his face, like she was intimidating him. Somehow she lifted one more time unwillingly. And that was it.
I then decided to film them because the whole scenario looked like a musical but she was done with it.
She behaved panicky, snarled, growled and grunted if he approached her. She scratched his face.
So i tried to hold her down so he could do his business but she wasn't having it. Desperately trying to get away so i took her out for a couple of hours and tried again later.. it became a mess.
She now lunged at him, grunting loudly, and trying to attack me when i reached my hand to her, i thought the the whole neighbourhood heared us so that was enough.
Normally i try to breed them as much as i can within 2 hours, which is suppossingly another method to increase litter size but it hasn't really worked for me. But yesterdat i read an artictle on the website of a dutch breeder, who has also been a show judge.
And it sait that it takes 10 hours for the released eggs to arrive in the uterine horn.
So i tried to stretch the limit of 2 hours to 10 and do as many repeats as i could within that time but Zira had enough after 3 takes.
So wasn't ably to try this method, maybe when Amber becomes receptive.. waiting for her now.