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[neverfinishanyth]

Hello again! I am in need of some advice. I recently caught a Hoothoot, a decently sized round owl, and she seems to have trouble sleeping unless she is kept in a pokeball, staying up at all hours of the day. Is this common for such creatures? Are there perhaps better methods to assist with sleeping?

Oh, and another thing, I almost forgot! The egg I purchased at the fair hatched a few days ago. Are there any strategies for speeding this process up? I tried wrapping the egg in a warm towel, but I am not sure if it had any measurable effect.

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[schachmeister]

There are some pokemon that can help you speed up the hatching process. If you have a pokemon with the ability Flame body, Magma Armor or Steam Engine, keeping them near an egg will halve the time needing to hatch it.

As you can probably tell from the names, the pokemon with these abilities are fire types. Personally, I use a Camerupt to help me when I am hatching eggs. If you are planning on becoming a professional breeder or are hatching eggs with long egg-cycles, it can be really worth looking into owning a pokemon with one of these abilities.

[neverfinishanyth]

I see! I am not planning on any breeding experiments myself, or at least at the moment I'm not, but my traveling companion is, so I will pass along your advice to her when I am given the chance.

It's good to know that pokemon can assist with the process. I'd heard pokemon came from eggs from the index, of course, but it is different seeing such a thing in person, and especially when a small dog walks out of the shell instead of a bird.

[schachmeister]

No matter what kind of pokemon you breed, owning a pokemon with flame body/magma armor/steam engine and a Ditto is highly recommended to all breeders. Of course, there are those who say that is cheapening the experience, but I don't see a good reason not to take advantage of things like this.

It's a bit of a shock, yes. Though I'd argue pokemon eggs aren't *really* eggs. At least, not in the way bird eggs are.

[neverfinishanyth]

I wonder what makes them different from the eggs of a bird, aside from their size. Is it the coloration? The way that they hatch or how they are formed?

Such fascinating creatures, these pokemon.

[schachmeister]

[aww yeah, let's talk Egg Lore. Or more like Egg Hypotheses.]

A bird's egg can never contain a creature bigger than the egg itself, but pokemon eggs do so very frequently. Same with weight; a newly hatched bird will weigh the same as it did inside the egg, but pokemon eggs all weigh the same, while a new hatchling could weigh many times more than the egg itself. And, in fact, no matter the size of the parent species, all pokemon eggs are always the same size, regardless whether they were laid by a Cutiefly or an Onix.

None of this would make sense if they were like bird eggs.

Instead, I believe pokemon 'eggs' are more like a pre-evolutionary state shared by all pokemon.

It seems that new pokemon are created through their parents combining their energy (which is why even pokemon with enormous size differences can still create an egg together and physical copulation has never been observed), probably the same sort of energy that also allows pokemon to evolve. I believe that while the new energy form develops, it presents itself in the egg shape we see. But there is no real developing creature inside the 'shell' like you'd have with a bird. And the hatching isn't really hatching either. It's a type of transformation much like evolution. And as we all know, the transformation that happens when evolution takes place has very few limits in place in terms of size or weight, which is why the egg stage can give rise to pokemon many times bigger and heavier than the 'egg'.

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[tearsofademon]

What sort of trouble sleeping are we talking about? Does she just not sleep, or is she such a light sleeper that she keeps waking up when she tries?

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[neverfinishanyth]

It seems she only sleeps for an hour or so before waking up and hooting.

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[tearsofademon]

And I'm guessing it's not something obvious waking her up...

It could be her ability. Some Hoothoots have the ability Insomnia, which prevents sleep, so if that's the one she has, that might have something to do with it. Not all of them do, though.

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[neverfinishanyth]

Nothing I can think of, except perhaps the movement of the sun.

Though I suspect her ability might be the cause, now that you've reminded me.

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[cometkin]

Huh. Have you tried warm milk?

I mean, for your owl, not your eggs. Though I dunno, maybe floating them in a milk bath couldn't hurt. I think Armin's already mentioned most of the things the book Rose and I got on breeding talks about. It also says that riding a bike around in circles doesn't really speed up egg hatching times. That's just a myth.

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[neverfinishanyth]

Should I ever obtain such a thing as a bike, I will try to keep that in mind.

I cannot see how warm milk would hurt, either. Perhaps there's a type of berry one could put in the milk that might make it even more helpful to the pokemon.

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[cometkin]

I know there's one kind of berry that if a human tries eating them instead of a Pokemon they zonk you right out. I think it's Chesto? Maybe if you steep that in the warm milk it'll help with your owl.

[neverfinishanyth]

Oh, that's an excellent idea! I'll give it a try and see how it turns out!

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[epitaffio]

Keeping the egg warm definitely helps! It still seems like it takes a while though, doesn't it?
I wonder if having the parents around would help too...

Oh yeah, speaking of warm, have you tried wrapping your Hoothoot in a blanket?
I don't know how little she is, but babies like that a lot.

[neverfinishanyth]

Having the parents around probably couldn't hurt the situation, but it wasn't possible this time. Next chance I get, though, I will see if there is any difference.

A warm blanket sounds nice. If nothing else, I'm sure Minerva will be much more comfortable that way.

[epitaffio]

Great!
I've only had to take care of one egg so far, but it was kind of nice.
It's not the kind of thing you get to do with most pets.

[neverfinishanyth]

No, only with the birds. And you cannot keep a bird if it does not want to be kept.

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[mightdoriya]

I would ask if she gets any sleep at night and is just an anomaly- assuming she's nocturnal like normal owls would be- but you probably would have mentioned that if she was I imagine...I would try to find someplace quiet and dark for her to go to sleep though, even if it's during the day. From what I understand they're pretty light sleepers anyway, so she might just be getting frequent naps in instead of sleeping for a full eight hours like a person might.

[Or eighteen or something, if you're a cat.]

As for your egg, keeping it warm is really the best option. I've been told that Pokemon have certain abilities to make the process faster, but I don't have any myself just yet. It took a little over a week for Thirteen to hatch because of that, but I think the time it takes might depend on the species of Pokemon inside the egg too.

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[neverfinishanyth]

All very sensible advice. I'm not sure how long Pokemon need to sleep, so perhaps her little naps are just something she enjoys.

[mightdoriya]

Hopefully that's all it is. As long as she doesn't seem to be tired all the time or unhappy, then I wouldn't worry about it too much.

How does she seem to be doing right now?

[neverfinishanyth]

Right now, she's entertaining herself by trying to sneak up on some Caterpie. So I think she's doing just fine.

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[maplecourt]

Are... owls not supposed to be up at all hours of the day? I swear I've seen them awake during both the day and the night. But maybe the ones here are different than the ones I'm used to.

... Afraid I'm not any use for the rest of that, though! I haven't had an experience with these eggs just yet! Or ever, hopefully.

[neverfinishanyth]

Perhaps there are many different types of owls. The ones I knew tended to sound more awake at night, or at least, that's when I could hear them hooting. But maybe some owls like to do their calls during the day, too.

Are you not fond of eggs?

[maplecourt]

I've seen both, there's some you only see at night and others during the day. Some during both.

I'd rather not think about these creatures boning, eggs or not.

[neverfinishanyth]

They're so quiet when they aren't loudly announcing their presence, it can be difficult to spot them.

And if it helps in any way, I'm not certain these eggs are produced in the typical fashion. There's a lot of odd things about them and their function, things that I am not sure of yet.