Some pics of the girls

[kueluck]

So sorry to hear about your Dad passing. It's hard losing a family member no matter what the circumstances are, weather it be better for the individual or not. But on a good note........B-flat, happy to hear the girls are doing good.

I wonder why you aren't getting e-mail notices on the threads you're subscribed to? Unless you accidentally clink on the unsubscribe link, I've done that before when in a rush. Guess you need to go back and do some input on some threads to see if that will reboot it.

[yoshimi]

Some time between last night and this afternoon, Ukulele passed away. I was hoping she was maybe hibernating, above ground but under log hide. Banjo was right next to her, but she is fine. Banjo was the last one to eat a worm and I should have known then.
I don't know how old she is/was, but old enough to have been gravid. Was a chubby little thing. Not that little really. The guy I adopted he from had had her for 4-5yrs, and found her in NH woods. Always ate like a champ.
When I held her, I thought, hey she's breathing, but it was just my hand shaking. Opened her mouth, nothing stuck in there, tho her tongue was white.
Changed Banjo's dirt, and Uki is in a box with dirt, hoping she'll wake up but her eyes are closed... Waiting for a thaw on Fri to bury her. Post-mortum pics coming, I apologize in advance...

[Mentat]

I'm very sorry for Ukulele's death Crystal !

[yoshimi]

Yeah, not a hibernation... I go her mouth open for pic (thoiught thery were always pink) and cleaned he up for burial...
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[kueluck]

So sorry to read about this. I lost my Rosie in May of 2012 from being egg bound, she was huge like Uki was. Guess that's why I prefer boys.

[yoshimi]

Banjo is still OK, gonna get a fat worm before work, or on break or at some point today. She's sitting (I dunno about enjoying) new dirt but it's entirely her kingdom (queendom?) now.

Uki was always a chubba, I'd assumed she'd had eggs at some point, certainly old enough. I thought maybe bloat but touching her sides always just felt soft. And she looks especially massive in that post mortum pic, not holding herself up. I'd like to know what happened, but unless someone has an idea before she goes into ground tomorrow (thaw, we're putting her under a new tree in backyard that will be her tree as it grows), I have to assume old age or she ate moss or mealworm that just didn't pass. The moss has been gone for a while but I'm sure there were remnants. I felt nothing abnormally hard touching her sides and tummy.

She was always the best eater, but last feeding, I had to put her worm back in cup. That was a first, and I blamed it on winter.
I can't even tell the guy I adopted her from, cuz his email was a craigslist email and invalid now. He thought it was his personal email addy but i never bother to inform him otherwise. Maybe better he doesn't know. About uki, I mean.

[kueluck]

I would have to know what would cause this. Have you thought of cutting her open to look? That's how I found out Rosie was egg bound.