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Originally Posted by Formula Outlaw
I didn't know snakes had "seasons"....  |
Heck yeah they do. Breeding season started in March. Eggs were being laid beginning in mid April. Hatching started a couple of weeks ago. NONE of those events can be missed or I am probably out of business. I guess it's much like farming. At certain times of the year, you HAVE to do what needs to be done, no excuses, or there ARE no crops that year.
Then when those periods are over with, I have to feed ALL the babies every 5 to 7 days. Doesn't sound like much except we are talking about around 3,000 babies. Hopefully I will be selling them (which means pulling animals and packing shipments Monday thru Wednesday each week) but still, EVERY night I have to be cleaning containers and feeding 1/7th of all the babies here to stay on that 7 day schedule. Normally during the peak of the workload, I am cleaning and feeding 300 babies every night. That's on top of everything else needing to be done during the more normal times of the year.
August and September are pretty darn nuts around here. When October comes around, I celebrate surviving yet another season.