Well, the hedgehogs are almost ready to be taken from their mom. All except the pinto. Her eyes are just starting to open and she's starting to get fur. I really like the albino. I might end up keeping her if she doesn't sell right away. I really need to buy a champagne male. Then I could start cooking up some nice high-end champagne babies. That would be really cool. I separated Scrat and Eric's Champagne today, and I'm going to stick Tiggy-Winkle & Scrat together tomorrow.

I put together a rough breeding schedule for 2007 so that I could try to have babies available every month of the year. That would be really awesome. Then I would really have to get a table at one of the reptile shows. I think I would almost be better setting up at the Lake County Show, since I don't think there is a hedgehog dealer there yet. The baby with the light mask has a FULL set of teeth! She was chewing up my finger today. All of the babies were, but she's got the most teeth out of all of them.

The baby's are 32 days old now! It's gone by really fast. They're at the stage where they are chewing on my fingers from the minute I pick them up. They're so much fun at this age! As you can kinda see from the 2 bottom pictures, they're venturing out of the nestbox on their own. That's always fun to see.

Here's some pictures of the pinto. The babies are doing fine. The albino has some eye crusties in one eye, but I don't see any big issues ahead. I was hoping to have more than 5 babies to sell this spring, so I was planning on setting up a table at the reptile swap. I don't think I'll need to do that now that I only have 5 babies. Most will probably sell just by word of mouth, and I'll walk the neighborhood with some of them during our community garage sale and try to get some people interested that way. I'm going to breed Scrat and the champagnethatIgotfromEricthatdoesn'thaveanameyet in the very near future. I'm debating whether I want to breed Antic's & Bilbo at the same time as the above pair, or space them out a bit.

Caramel's babies are now 22 days old, and the pinto baby is 11 days old. Caramel's babies eyes are almost all the way open. My EBCC was right, I have 3 Salt & Peppers, 1 Albino, and 1 Salt & Pepper Pinto. That's pretty cool, considering I've never had any colors besides Salt & Pepper. I probably will not keep any of these babies. They are all females except for 1 Salt & Pepper. I got 1 picture of each baby. More to come!

Here's pictures from the past two weeks. Towaco had 2 babies about a week ago, but she cannabalized one of them. I fostered the other one to Caramel, because I figured she'd have a better chance of survival. It's working out quite well. Caramel has accepted the baby, and it's turning out to be a nice looking pinto. Caramel's baby's are all doing great, and I'm dying to see what the white one will turn out to be. I'm putting my money on albino. Here's my EBCC (Estimated Baby Color Count) as of right now:
1 Albino
3 Salt & Pepper
1 Salt & Pepper Pinto