Well, I caught 'em at it. When I went into the library this morning everyone was awake; I wasn't sure at first about the brothers because I only saw one, he was hanging on the top of the cage, and then I saw two tails! Kioko was mounted on Washi, I could see someone's little red genitalia (probably Kioko's). No one seemed to be in any distress at all, so I left them at it. Got Shikoni, he came right onto my hand and we went to play.
He's gotten pretty adventurous! His new game is to glide from my knee onto the sink, scurry across the counter and jump to the door; up the towels and back down; run across the floor, up my leg, onto the curtains; back down onto me ... and repeat. He must have done it twenty times. I like that he's getting so much good exercise and having fun, you can tell; he finally got tired and I took him home and gave him a mealie. The other two were in their pouch; I left them there. I checked on them a few minutes ago; both were eating. One's on the wheel now, I can hear it rattling.
Have to clean cages today. They got shrimp last night, so there'll be a nice fishy smell. I have some clean fleeces and a corner hammock; no clean pouches, we'll see where everyone sleeps and I'll wash what's available.
Dinner last night: shrimp, black and blue berries, spring mix, a few radish slices, snow peas and carrots. Also strawberry yogurt. I'll get some other flavors today, I need some to take to work for breakfasts. Sure wish we had more grocery stores; there are only a few flavors available without artificial sweeteners. Makes me crazy that both grocery chains have essentially the same thing, for all the groceries; there's just not a lot of variety around here.
I'm giving them V-8 Fusion about every three days, diluted half-and-half with water. It's a big hit! It's been peach-mango. There's strawberry-banana, but I know I won't like that, and since I also have to drink the stuff, it's gotta be something acceptible to me.
I found a website that gives a very detailed nutrient analysis of (so far) every food I've wondered about. It's WHFoods.com. Click through three screens, and up comes the chart with everything: trace minerals, vitamins, fats, amino acids, other components. I was surprised to discover that many of the meats (like chicken and shrimp) are lower in calcium than phosphorus; I wonder if this is also something we need to track, like we do the vegetable kingdom. Even eggs: 22:76 mg. I don't know, before long we'll only be giving them sesame seeds and molasses! Wonder what the ratios are for crickets and mealies ...
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