The containers you put the eggs into for the incubation need to be put somewhere dark that the temperature will stay around 74F...and you need to set the container up properly. It can be an incubator or just a shelf in a closet. I use shoebox sized tupperware type containers that I fill about half full of barely moist vermiculite. I put two very tiny holes in the lid. To test the vermiculite for moisture level, take a fist full and squeeze it after you have moistened it and if you can only squeeze a drop or two of water out of it, it should be right. I lay the eggs in rows about 1" apart in rows in dents that I make with my thumb. Moisture will form on the inside of the container and the lid. When removing the eggs from where they are buried try not to turn/rotate them.
This is the way the egglaying should go...Do not let her see you watching her while she is digging or she may abandon the hole. The female may dig several test holes but should pick one in and dig it until she is happy with it. It can take more than a day for this to happen. She should then turn around butt down and lay the eggs. It usually happens in the evening. She should fill the hole in, tamp it down and then return to the branches. She should be hungry and thirsty. Once she has returned to the branches you can dig the eggs up to incubate them.
If this doesn't happen and she becomes lethargic, sits low in the cage, sleeps during the day, digs a hole that she acts as though she has laid the eggs in (and fills it in, etc.) but hasn't laid the eggs, etc. then she could be eggbound. The trouble is that by the time she starts acting this way she would likely be past the time that oxytocin would work and the only alternative to save the female would be surgery to spay her.
Good luck!
