Pygmy Shedding Time Lapse

[ferretinmyshoes]

Pygmies shed their entire skin within an hour or two! They split down the middle and then stretch their little heads and tails all around to loosen the split and eventually end up pulling it off! Sometimes they will eat the entire shed so you don't even know it happened. I got lucky and caught one of my cb adults right as she started shedding! Enjoy

 

[laurie]

That is really cool. Thanks for sharing. Were you able to locate more pygmy's? I bought some for my sister. She has a group of nine so we are hopeful. let me know if you want/need some.

 

[ferretinmyshoes]

I have 5 currently with 4 eggs incubating and hopefully more on the way. Our heater went out earlier so the eggs dropped a little too low, and then when I got an incubator for them came up a little too high...I hope they're okay. I'm so happy to see pygmys more available now! I hope your sister has success with her group. Maybe we can trade offspring.

 

[Hoj]

Awsome!! Great pics Ferrit

 

[ferretinmyshoes]

I just loved watching her reach up and scratch her head like a dog! But no love for the pygmies I guess...

 

[c81kennedy]

I have never seen my pymies shed good find! Thanks for sharing.

 

[squeekz1992]

That is so cool!! Thanks for sharing!!

 

[absolutbill]

Those pics are super cool - I've never really felt the love for pygmies, however they seem to be growing on me lately

 

[ChamomilleCame]

Really neat! Pygmies are absolutely adorable!

 

[pssh]

Thats neat! One of my fat (maybe gravid?) temporalis pygmies just shed but hers split right down the bottom of her belly! She had a cape of skin on her back that was gross and yellow from the wild. Hers only took an hour or so too but it got stuck on the very top of her back so I found her with the cape still on this morning.

 

[Ace]

damn, i need to find a way of keeping pygmies in my dormroom LOL

 

[ataraxia]

Really neat pics ferret. You have some fat little pygies

 

[ferretinmyshoes]

I think she would be offended by that.

 

[ataraxia]

hahaha, im just sayin

 

[ferretinmyshoes]

She's the only one who's laid eggs so far, maybe I need to fatten the other ladies up!

 

[draftgirl]

Those are great pictures! I had no idea they did it so quickly. Thanks for sharing.

 

[ferretinmyshoes]

So I watching the same pygmy shed again yesterday and caught these hilarious photos! To help stretch the skin around their eyes they can bulge them out to ridiculous sizes! It went back in after about a minute and the other one would pop out the same way. So funny to watch!

Wanted to post in case anyone else experienced this and thought there was something wrong.

Also, Ataraxia, I noticed this time that she inflates her body quite a bit to try to stretch the rest of her skin. So that's why she looks so fat!

 

[coldbloodedAL]

LOL! Thats pretty crazy lookin! Nice shots

 

[CamiGirl89]

LOL hilarious photos, Ferret! If any of you know of anyone who sells R. Temporalis pygmies, I am looking to purchase a male! Love the pygmies, I don't think they get enough credit for their goofy personalities

 

[crocky]

LOL...That is some crazy stuff right there, glad you were able to capture it....amazing animals!!