Cannabilism !!!!!!! :-(

[karen]

I woke up this morning to find three quarters of one of my baby axies inside the other one with just his head and front legs sticking out.

I have no idea how he even managed it - there is only a cm in size between them.

I managed to get him to spit the other guy out - but he died as soon as he was free :-(

I was upset at leg biting - but I feel differently about them since i saw this :-(

 

[daniel]

Aw. i cant immagine how upsetting that must be. sorry to hear that.

 

[jinny]

This is why I spent money on dividers and isolation chambers. They're very capable of injuring or killing each other until about they're about 3 inches (7.5 cm) long (and even at that size I was paranoid).

 

[karen]

The big one was 4 inches and the slightly smaller one was just under :-(

 

[karen]

I'm still really mad at the big guy ! The smaller one was half digested :-(. It was really horrible he just gave 2 gasps then died :-(

 

[anna]

Yikes, I have around 40 babies at the moment and and have noticed one is missing his leg, and two others are missing their feet.

If I am to divide them, I'm guessing I divide them based on their size? To divide them so axi has a space each will probably be impossible.

 

[karen]

Yes you need to divide them by size - these guys regularly chewed off each others legs and ironically I was just thinking the night before that I should seperate them again - I was 12 hours too late !

 

[trisha]

LOL - I know it's not funny but that is why nature makes them produce so many babies - it's survival of the fittest! - one of our babies was caught with just the tiniest tip of a tail sticking out of his mouth - we chased him with a net and he spat the whole thing out alive!!! You have to keep them Extremely regularly fed or you will lose bits or whole babies!!! a very expensive time consuming job but very rewarding!!