topknot20
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Well on wednesday night my 8 month old female veiled green bean laid her first clutch!! 16 days after copulation she laid 51 eggs and all were fertile!!!
I couldnt believe that she had that many in her. The three other clutches of veileds that I have produced had never been this big and they always had a few infertile ones.
I am absoultly amazed by the process she went through. I watched the intire process after the digging was done which was about three hours straight uninterupted. I dont know if anyone else has ever done this, and this was the first time I ever had, but I would like to share my observations.
The begining of the egg laying process seems to be the most strenuous part. She would take a deep breath and then push and wiggle around has though to loosen the eggs. This also I belive breaks a type of amniotic sack that he eggs are contained in ( I have no actual reproductive biology data to confirm). Then the laying process bean with the first two or three eggs coming slowly with what looked like a tremendous effort. She pushed so hard that her front arms spread eagled out!! This was about the first hour or so. Her color was also very dark, she was bascially black form the stress. After that the eggs seemed to come out much more easily, with two or three at a time.
As the last few eggs were coming out I started to notice that she was doing the veiled chameleon call, that kinda buzzing throaty sound that they make. she did this until the last egg came out. Then she checked out her eggs and continued to call. This was the part of the process that really made me wonder what the biological significance of the calling was for. I dont have even the slightest idea what they would do this for???? Finally she began packing the eggs and began to bury them. But the calling continued but was then sporadic. She packed the material checked it and headed up onto branch to sleep.
The next day it was back to business as usual eating and drinking like a little pig
I was just wondering what others have to say or if they have ever noticed anything similar.
I couldnt believe that she had that many in her. The three other clutches of veileds that I have produced had never been this big and they always had a few infertile ones. I am absoultly amazed by the process she went through. I watched the intire process after the digging was done which was about three hours straight uninterupted. I dont know if anyone else has ever done this, and this was the first time I ever had, but I would like to share my observations.
The begining of the egg laying process seems to be the most strenuous part. She would take a deep breath and then push and wiggle around has though to loosen the eggs. This also I belive breaks a type of amniotic sack that he eggs are contained in ( I have no actual reproductive biology data to confirm). Then the laying process bean with the first two or three eggs coming slowly with what looked like a tremendous effort. She pushed so hard that her front arms spread eagled out!! This was about the first hour or so. Her color was also very dark, she was bascially black form the stress. After that the eggs seemed to come out much more easily, with two or three at a time.
As the last few eggs were coming out I started to notice that she was doing the veiled chameleon call, that kinda buzzing throaty sound that they make. she did this until the last egg came out. Then she checked out her eggs and continued to call. This was the part of the process that really made me wonder what the biological significance of the calling was for. I dont have even the slightest idea what they would do this for???? Finally she began packing the eggs and began to bury them. But the calling continued but was then sporadic. She packed the material checked it and headed up onto branch to sleep.
The next day it was back to business as usual eating and drinking like a little pig
I was just wondering what others have to say or if they have ever noticed anything similar.
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