Post by HG on Sept 20, 2010 5:21:12 GMT -5
Wher-handlers are not searched like candidates for dragon Impression. Any person who can afford the price of an egg can take a try at bonding with a wher. The only exception to this rule is if you have entered within the Wher craft and you have been chosen by the Masters to take charge of a Wher. The general method for choosing a wher egg from a clutch is to first approach the queen wher and bow. Making clicking and chirping noises can help. Queen whers are more likely to hand their eggs over to humans who will 'talk' to them. If the queen decides to allow it, she will reveal her eggs and the wher-handler-to-be may step forward and take his/her pick from the clutch. Once an egg has been chosen the egg-receiver will then bow and walk backwards away from the queen.
Wher eggs are roughly half the size of dragon eggs and have wrinkled, rumpled skin. Like dragon and firelizard eggs, watch-wher eggs must be kept warm until they hatch. However, it is generally the warmth of the queen wher's body and wings that keep the eggs warm, rather than hot sands. Eggs that have been purchased can be kept warm by hot sands, or by beds of straw that are heated with warmed bricks.
Upon hatching, baby whers must be fed, although they are not as voracious as dragonets. Hatchling whers have no teeth, and therefore can easily choke on chunks of meat. The best meal to feed a newly-hatched wher is a porridge of oats, water, and blood. Upon hatching, it is safe to feed a wher as much of the porridge as it asks for, for they do not allow themselves to be over-fed. After hatching, about half a pail of the blood-porridge a day is sufficient food for the first three months. After three months a wher will have enough back teeth to chew meat chunks, and can graduate to a diet of raw meat. However the porridge feedings should continue every morning until the wher develops the second coat on its hide.
While not essential, a baby watch-wher can be 'blooded' and allowed to drink some of its newly-bonded human's blood. Although this has not been definitively proven, blooding does seem to strengthen the bond. Whers can also be blooded to any human to help the wher become more familiar with that particular person.
And a special thanks to Laura H. from www.islandsofpern.org who was kind enough to compile this information from The Dragonrider’s Guide to Pern by Jody Lynn Nye and Anne McCaffrey as well as from Dragon’s Kin by Anne McCaffery and her son Todd McCaffery.
Wher eggs are roughly half the size of dragon eggs and have wrinkled, rumpled skin. Like dragon and firelizard eggs, watch-wher eggs must be kept warm until they hatch. However, it is generally the warmth of the queen wher's body and wings that keep the eggs warm, rather than hot sands. Eggs that have been purchased can be kept warm by hot sands, or by beds of straw that are heated with warmed bricks.
Upon hatching, baby whers must be fed, although they are not as voracious as dragonets. Hatchling whers have no teeth, and therefore can easily choke on chunks of meat. The best meal to feed a newly-hatched wher is a porridge of oats, water, and blood. Upon hatching, it is safe to feed a wher as much of the porridge as it asks for, for they do not allow themselves to be over-fed. After hatching, about half a pail of the blood-porridge a day is sufficient food for the first three months. After three months a wher will have enough back teeth to chew meat chunks, and can graduate to a diet of raw meat. However the porridge feedings should continue every morning until the wher develops the second coat on its hide.
While not essential, a baby watch-wher can be 'blooded' and allowed to drink some of its newly-bonded human's blood. Although this has not been definitively proven, blooding does seem to strengthen the bond. Whers can also be blooded to any human to help the wher become more familiar with that particular person.
And a special thanks to Laura H. from www.islandsofpern.org who was kind enough to compile this information from The Dragonrider’s Guide to Pern by Jody Lynn Nye and Anne McCaffrey as well as from Dragon’s Kin by Anne McCaffery and her son Todd McCaffery.
