I missed a wonderful picture today. I woke everybody up in the middle of the day, and was able to get a lasting view of the baby's head attached to mommas teat and happily sucking away. The inside of her pouch is interesting looking.

I took the mother out last night and put her on my glider tummy viewer and was watching the baby. It is growing bigger and can be seen wiggling inside of the pouch. I have learned that if you pick the animal up and hold it by its tail so that it is hanging, you can get a great view of the pouch. The animals will stretch themselves out as if they were gliding, which will stretch the opening of the pouch so that you can see inside. I was able to seethe baby's nose and his legs and feet.

The baby is already much bigger than it was a few days ago. I have taken the mother out a few times and she seems normal. She wants to jump around just as usual. I am finding her sleeping on her back now which I find interesting.

Wonderful news! I just found out that my female has a baby! I took her out tonight to play, and noticed that she had a lump in her tummy. Further inspection revealed an already birthed little one crawling around in her pouch. I have been busy this last week with a new job and havent given them much attention, so she could have had it anytime. I was surprised that she was very complacent around me. I remember my hamsters biting when they had babies, but she was much calmer than usual and even looked tired or sad. I put her on top of a clear plastic photo holder so she could sit still and I could see her underside. I could see the baby stick his feet out and move around the pouch. After I put her back into the cage, she sat still for a long time, and as we were staring at her, she hung herself by her feet from the top of the cage with her belly exposed to us and hanged there for about 5 minutes. The whole time we could watch the baby crawling around inside her pouch. It is almost as if she wanted us to see, or maybe she was begging for us to take it out for her.

The animals have been acting a bit strange the past few weeks, but things seem to be getting back to normal. I guess they havent mated yet, but I hope they do so soon. My favorite thing to do with my animals is to feed them by hand after they wake up for the evening. Mine are usually awake by 10:00pm and are hungry. I was feeding them tonight while they were in their bed and they were stealing corn pieces out of each others mouth. It is so fun watching them chew on something, especially when it makes noise. Their little eyes relax a bit as they relish the days food.

I have noticed that the female is now curling her tail up on her back constantly when awake. It seems like she is making it an easy target for the male. I am very curious to see the results of all of this. Maybe I will see an outcome in 16 days or so.

I came home tonight around 10:30pm and fed my animals, and I noticed that they hadnt come out of their nest yet. I saw that the male was on top of the female and he had the back of her neck in his mouth and was clamped around her with his legs. He was also moving his head back and forth in a hypnotic fashion tugging on her neck. To get rid of any possibility that he was sick or anything, I opened their nest and got them out, and the male just held on to the female tightly as she jumped around the cage. I can only assume that they are FINALLY starting to mate. It will be very interesting to see their mating instincts. I think I have seen one so far.

I have noticed that the animals seem to have opposite gender personalities. The female is the one that never sleeps, is on constant watch for danger, wants to explore, wont trust me, jumps all over the place... Whereas the male sleeps through anything, trusts me easily, accepts food from me, will sit on my shoulder patiently and so on. The male is also the one that barks at night occasionally. I think it is because he wants my attention. When he does bark, I am able to stop it by shining a flashlight at him once... That's all that is necessary. The female has gone to biting me terribly. This morning I got very angry of it and I tried to find some way to scold her, but everything that I tried just made her more and more angry and offensive. Short of beating her senseless, I can think of nothing to tell her 'no', so I have decided to do the opposite and let her bite me to her hearts content through a glove. I am going to over handle her and hold her tight in my hand until the point that she realizes it is going to happen anyway and she doesnt bite. I cant help but wonder if it is her natural instinct since she might be having young soon or something motherly like that.

The female seems to keep biting me when I pick her up, so I think I have decided to not touch her for play anymore. The male should be enough company for her anyway. The male is very tame and loves to run around outside his cage. He has proven to be very fun, and I think it will be time to take him to my office soon to share with others.

I have been feeding them a mixture of seeds and nuts and so forth designed for large birds. I am trying other things to see what they like. I do know that they like apples and pecans.

   

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NUTHOUSE (3) Pican 4/30/2002, died 6/02/2010 Buddy 5/01/2006 Hazel 2/01/2007, rehomed 11/28/2011 Maya 4/25/2007 Pili 4/25/2007 MISFITS (3) Big Guy 9/23/2003, died 1/29/2014 Lil Guy 9/23/2003, died 5/13/2015 Hunter 4/19/2006, died 3/23/2014 JP 8/12/2006 Shikoni 2004 Kioko 2003 Washi 2003, died 5/27/2014 SUGARSHACK (3) Chico 1/15/2006, died 9/14/2011 Cookie 10/15/2005 Kimmie 10/15/2005 Lucky 5/25/2007 Spritz 8/24/2007, died 7/06/2011 Ginger 8/24/2007, died 12/16/2012 Rock 9/09/2007, died 3/23/2013 Crystal 9/09/2007, died 11/01/2012

   

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