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Date Posted: 15:43:10 11/09/01 Fri
Author: Beverly
Subject: Reproductive frequency in Glaucomys Volans

Greetings, and Best Wishes for much luck with your new forum, Mark. It's my understanding that you are a commercial breeder of domestic GV's, and wonder if you've found the reproductive cycle to be as close as I experienced. My female, a fall '98 herself, produced her first litter this February,(1 m & 1 f), and her second litter just 12 weeks later (2 m & 1 f). She has been with a same-age male since her arrival here. All 5 youngsters were well cared for, and developed nicely. The first litter, I kept. The second, I kept the female, and found an excellent home for the males, with the local BOCES Outdoor Learning Lab, separating them from their family at 7 weeks. I was especially glad to see them go together, and thus far, they are doing very well, and helping introduce youngsters to these wonderful creatures. I was concerned about the quickness of the female's second litter arrival. I was expecting a longer fallow period. I am on L.I., so I realise my breeding months may be a bit different than yours (You are in Texas, yes?), but I would expect you would experience a similar fallow. I researched, by way of a doctoral thesis obtained through City College, NYU, Queens, the habits of the GV's here on L.I., but of course, the breeding in the wild bears little resemblance to captive breeding. Predation, habitat competition, and nutrition factors place considerable stresses on the wild population that the domestic population do not suffer. Will you share your knowledge of this issue with us? TYVM!

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