After around 60 days you will notice little heads starting to emerge from their eggs! At this stage no matter how tempting it is , try to not disturb the hatching bearded dragons. Leave any hatched bearded dragons inside the box for a day as their activity will help stimulate the rest of the eggs to hatch. I am new to bearded dragons and i have a male drago and a female queenie she laid 30 eggs yahoo! My question is why not let the condensation land on eggs?
Email will not be published. Contact Us My Account. Livefood Subscription Automatic livefood deliveries. Recommended Products. Having a female beardie in the terrarium, you will always discover its eggs, and the more females you own, the more chances of getting the eggs. Bearded dragons lay their eggs in clutches; a single clutch contains around 20 eggs.
After successful mating, female beardies typically lay anywhere about clutches per pregnancy. Though it is still possible to find a dragon laying up to six clutches, however, it is rare, but in case it happens, you should be prepared.
It is good you know about it. After your beardie lays the eggs, you will want to check if there are babies inside. It will be a waste of time and resources to incubate infertile eggs that will never give you hatchlings.
Therefore, it is necessary to check for fertility. Female dragons attain their maturity when they are around eight months to two years old. It is recommended not to mate your beardie anywhere below 18 months. Breeding her at this early age is like causing stress and might result in slow growth and other health issues. Mating the dragon anywhere from 18 months to two years is healthy; the systems are fully mature and can safely carry the eggs.
After mating, expect to receive the eggs from your beardie after about weeks. She will be carrying the eggs until they are fully developed. When the days are nearing for the female to lay, you can ever notice. They tend to be inactive, often sleep under a heat lamp, and they refuse to eat. You will also note that the belly enlarges, and the eggs are visible from outside through oval protrusions. When she starts digging, it is about time to lay. You can provide a nesting box, or let them lay in the substrate if it is deep enough about 10 inches.
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Moisten the substrate with some water. This will raise the humidity levels of the environment. You should moisten the substrate enough so that it clumps up a bit. This will only cause mold issues. Now, place the nesting box into her enclosure.
Make sure that the heat lamps are on to keep the box warm. You can also create a separate nesting enclosure. Once your bearded dragon is done laying her eggs, you can remove her from the enclosure. Expert Tip: Offer her some high-protein snacks and dust any food with calcium.
Bearded dragons pull calcium from their skeletons when developing eggs, so high-calcium foods are a must. You can keep the eggs in the nesting box, but this requires continual monitoring to keep humidity levels and temperatures at a safe level. This is no easy task, so most breeders will simply use an incubator. Before placing the eggs into the incubator, you must move them to a separate incubator box. This can be a simple plastic container with a snug lid. You want the humidity levels to rise inside.
Line the bottom of the box with an inch or two of the incubation medium. You can use a commercial incubation substrate. Many breeders also like to use perlite or vermiculite. The incubation medium will hold onto moisture to keep humidity levels constant. Create a small divot in the substrate so that the eggs can rest in it without rolling over.
This will provide ample room for growth as the eggs develop even further. Temperatures should be between 80 and 85 degrees Fahrenheit. Around 84 degrees is a good average to aim for.
Slight fluctuations here and there are fine as long as the incubator sticks within the acceptable range. They are a mixture of colours - some already showing hints of orange on them. They are a mischievious bunch - scrambing on top of one another. Great fun to watch! In all it was about 24 hours and when they started running around the incubator, that I very carefully removed them and put them in a container to move to the incubator.
It was then I found that I had seven little babies in all! The picture to the right shows them just after I got them out of the incubator. Bearded Dragon Hatchlings start Eating The babies didn't seem bothered with eating for the first 3 or 4 days, which is quite normal. But then they showed a lot of interest in a tub of crickets placed outside the vivarium, so I put some in dusted with calcium dust.
All the hatchlings got very excited! It was fun to watch - their hunting techniques weren't too good at first, and some lunged for a cricket and missed, but they soon got the hang of it and were chomping away.
One baby got a bit of a fright and ran away from a cricket which looked like it was chasing him, but he soon realised that was the wrong way round, and turned hunter! They all seemed to feed well. Two week old Hatchlings At this age they are very sociable, and like to sit in groups together. They climb all over each other.
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