My Veiled Laid Eggs!

chase31157

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Almost a year ago we started noticing that my female veiled was behaving oddly. Her colors were darker and she was not eating so much. I took her to a reptile specialist in my area. He took an x-ray of her and confirmed that she was gravid. Since then, we have tried several different laying-bin setups. Sometimes she would go down to the laying bin and walk around in it for a few minutes, but never showed serious signs of laying. Over the weekend we spotted her digging. After about 2 days of digging off and on, on Monday night, she turned around in her tunnel and just sat there. The next morning, there were eggs! There were 37 in all. They were not fertilized. I just wanted to share my experience and photos with anyone who is interested. I know that waiting for your cham to lay can be stressful; worrying about the well-being of your pet, but I learned that if you provide them with what they need, they will lay when they are ready. She took almost a year :)
 

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Please make sure you keep a place for her to dig in the cage from now on. You're lucky she didn't die eggbound.
 
If she was gravid almost a year ago she either laid eggs somewhere that you were not aware of or your Vet is a little less expereinced then you think.
 
Please make sure you keep a place for her to dig in the cage from now on. You're lucky she didn't die eggbound.

We had a laying bin in her cage the entire time. She just never dug.

If she was gravid almost a year ago she either laid eggs somewhere that you were not aware of or your Vet is a little less expereinced then you think.

I don't think she ever laid before. We never saw her dig and never found any eggs. Also, the vet took an x-ray of her and I could see the eggs inside.
 
In the x-ray the vet took were the "eggs" round or oval? Back towards the tail or higher up in the body?
 
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