How mutch time to lay a clutch of eggs?
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pssh
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One of my crazy girls took a week to become gravid, then took 55-56 days to lay the eggs. This is all after spending many days with the male. She layed 19 HUGE eggs I believe. She's not in the norm though. More like a super extreme. 30 days is more or less average to lay the eggs.
Generally its about 30 days from the mating to the laying. There are exceptions due to when in her cycle she is mated, etc.
Once she starts digging, the female may dig several test holes over a period of a few days but should decide on one and dig it until she is satisfied. You should not let the female see you watching her when she is digging because it will make her abandon the hole thinking its not a safe place to lay the eggs. If this happens often enough, it can lead to eggbinding and death.
Once she has dug the hole to her satisfaction, she should turn around butt down and lay the eggs. This often happens in the evening. She may sleep in the hole overnight. She should then fill the hole in and tamp it down and return to the branches, hungry and thirsty and often exhausted.
Once she starts digging, the female may dig several test holes over a period of a few days but should decide on one and dig it until she is satisfied. You should not let the female see you watching her when she is digging because it will make her abandon the hole thinking its not a safe place to lay the eggs. If this happens often enough, it can lead to eggbinding and death.
Once she has dug the hole to her satisfaction, she should turn around butt down and lay the eggs. This often happens in the evening. She may sleep in the hole overnight. She should then fill the hole in and tamp it down and return to the branches, hungry and thirsty and often exhausted.
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SSimsswiSS
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The eggs went bad, most likely infertile. But look really dry.
SSimsswiSS
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So what you't telling me is that my unexperienced male put it in the wrong hole? LOL
Uff Da. It could be many things. Sometimes females will lay a unfertile clutch, first time around. The eggs may have been turned when moving from lay site, to present container. If female is a recent wild caught import, her eggs may have gone bad during the importation process (although when this occurs many females don't bother to dig a hole, and just scatter eggs on surface). Eggs may have been kept too wet, too dry. Too cold, or too hot. Or male was shooting blanks.
Did you moisten the vermiculite before you put the eggs on it? Did you have a lid on the container that you put the eggs into?
I just went and looked at the incubator type you are using...never seen one like that before, but maybe it doesn't work for chameleon eggs. I would expect that chicken and bird eggs wouldn't be kept very moist since they are hard shelled and hatched in nests unlike chameleon eggs that are hatched in the ground in the wild.
I just went and looked at the incubator type you are using...never seen one like that before, but maybe it doesn't work for chameleon eggs. I would expect that chicken and bird eggs wouldn't be kept very moist since they are hard shelled and hatched in nests unlike chameleon eggs that are hatched in the ground in the wild.
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DavidBuchan
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Those eggs don't look too good, with enough moisture they shouldn't be mishapen like that.......good luck though, you still have to try, right?
Leroux2008
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their sunken in =[ you want a more rounded solid egg.
