jajeanpierre
Chameleon Enthusiast
I was expecting one of my female quads to lay eggs a week or two ago. She was huge, with several hard eggs easily seen or felt with just a light touch on her sides.
She had a heck of a time with her last clutch laid early December. The clutch was very large for a quad--29 eggs. The vet gave her oxytocin but someone wrote the wrong weight on her chart so she was given more than double the dose. She laid her eggs after the oxytocin, but for the next week was down in a hole in the laying bin and seemed to be trying to lay eggs. X-rays showed no retained eggs.
Two weeks ago I was worried about how many eggs she was carrying and now there aren't any. I very gently palpated today and cannot feel anything. She went from being massive to now pretty much normal.
The first picture is Feb. 13. You can see the egg, which was calcified. The second and third picture were taken today. I am holding her tail and she is pulling in the third picture. You can see soft swellings, but not the hard eggs that were in her belly a few weeks ago. I pulled everything out of her laying bin and dug into the surface of the potted plant to see if she somehow laid them there. The plant's roots are near the surface creating a thick mat. If I can't scratch through the matted roots, neither can she, or if she did, she would have left evidence.
I think she reabsorbed the eggs. Is this likely to be a problem?
Another female I have looked as if she were gravid some time ago but no longer looks gravid.
Has anything like this happened to other breeders?
Thanks for any insight.
She had a heck of a time with her last clutch laid early December. The clutch was very large for a quad--29 eggs. The vet gave her oxytocin but someone wrote the wrong weight on her chart so she was given more than double the dose. She laid her eggs after the oxytocin, but for the next week was down in a hole in the laying bin and seemed to be trying to lay eggs. X-rays showed no retained eggs.
Two weeks ago I was worried about how many eggs she was carrying and now there aren't any. I very gently palpated today and cannot feel anything. She went from being massive to now pretty much normal.
The first picture is Feb. 13. You can see the egg, which was calcified. The second and third picture were taken today. I am holding her tail and she is pulling in the third picture. You can see soft swellings, but not the hard eggs that were in her belly a few weeks ago. I pulled everything out of her laying bin and dug into the surface of the potted plant to see if she somehow laid them there. The plant's roots are near the surface creating a thick mat. If I can't scratch through the matted roots, neither can she, or if she did, she would have left evidence.
I think she reabsorbed the eggs. Is this likely to be a problem?
Another female I have looked as if she were gravid some time ago but no longer looks gravid.
Has anything like this happened to other breeders?
Thanks for any insight.
