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Old 05-03-2008, 09:07 PM   #82 (permalink)
Lori P
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Re: Garterbabies 2008 !!

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Originally Posted by Gijs & Sabine View Post
@ Lori: You're right about the moisture you see in the pics. When garterbabies are born they will shed right away and most of them do it immediately after the birth when they are still moist. But some of them wait too long and when they are dried up it's a lot more difficult to shed, because the first shed is very thin and most of the time doesn't come of in one piece. In that case they look like little ghosts with pieces of skin everywhere or they look totaly wrinkled.
You can imagine that's not very plesant for them, so we leave them on moist papertowel for one day and everything is just fine
Thanks so much for explaining it to me.
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