YAY! my veiled layed :)

[craig]

Well my veiled wound up laying 53 eggs. She is 5 or 6 monthes old. I mated her 2 times with my male to produce this clutch so hopefully they come out ok. I will post pics. Thanks. Craig.

 

[Brad Ramsey]

Wow.
That's a lot of eggs for a girl who is really young.
How is she doing?
Be sure to give her lots to eat and dust everthing with calcium.
She just gave up a lot of it and her bones are still developing.

-Brad

 

[craig]

Hi Brad, yeah, I keep giving her water and dusted her crickets today. She is doing fine. Just looks like saggy skin I was surprised at the amount of eggs she layed too, hope they turn out ok. Her eyes aren't even sunkin in either. She has been diggin for a few days now but kept refusing to lay but today finally layed. I will keep you updated. Thanks.

 

[cowchick]

Congrats...I can't believe they spawn so young! I'd be so scared it would cause her harm! Congrats on the eggs! GOod luck with the rehab process on the mommy! I'm going through it now and it's hard to get them back going!

 

[westcoastchameleons]

Congragulations!
When my female laid...I was so excited..Until I realized how i would have to wait for 6 to 9 months...maybe more

I wish you luck with the waiting game

Jake

 

[craig]

Thank you everyone. Yeah, time is the key. When I bred them when I was young, it took forever. Curious, what do you recommend for incubating them? I purchased an incubator and curious on what temps you recommend. I was thinking 82F from what my book was saying. Thanks. Craig.

 

[pohchunyee]

Serrogate parent is a tough job.......... just make sure you don't kept thinking of those eggs...it will drive you crazy.

 

[PardalisGirl]

Wow......give that girl some treats! Sounds like you will make sure she gets lots to eat and drink, especially for the next week, to get her on the road to recovery. I see you have a savannah monitor. Thats a handful, or rather an armful! The iguana too! I'm impressed. I keep monitors and iguanas as well. They are all so fascinating in their own ways. And you must have several different menus/meals done each day like I do, to meet their different needs. It's like running a little restaurant for reptiles. I like how this group has a forum for other reptiles. So many reptiles to become addicted to a

 

[Brad Ramsey]

I have not bred chameleons or incubated eggs, but my understanding is that many, if not most, of the people I know who do, do not use an incubator for veiled eggs. I think 82 is about 10 degrees too warm.
Here's an article to read by Bill Strand:

http://www.chameleonnews.com/year2003/mar2003/eggs/egg_incubation.html

-Brad

Edit: Here's another article:

http://www.chameleonnews.com/year2003/july2003/incubation/incubation.html

 

[craig]

Thanks for the articles Brad. It doesn't really expain the difference between using and incubator or using a container though. Maybe I will just take the eggs out of the incubator and put them in a container Thanks. Craig.

 

[Julirs]

Craig-We are lucky living in Florida! I don't know about yours, but my house stays about 74 degrees year round. I think that is a good temp to incubate eggs at in containers tucked away in a dark closet.

 

[craig]

Thank you Juli. Yeah, When I bred them before I had them out in the pool area under a table for incubation. Its just my book showed fluctuations of 78-88F so iam alittle paranoid I have them in the incubator and I set it for like 78F so I don't know if I should leave it at a constant 80F or just leave them in the incubator. Maybe I should've bred jacksons instead so I would have live birth

 

[boothy]

WOW turn those temps down , you dont need high temps for incubating veild cham eggs i use 24 to 26 so 75 to 78 for thie first three months then turn em up abit to 25 to 27 ,77 to 80for the last couple months , iv used this methode twice now and i have hatched clutches of 40 plus eggs , my first batch started hatching in 188 days and this batch now that is hatching started on 196 days so if you want you can try them out , i know it worked for me , try not to get the temp into the high 80s or low 90s even justa day like this would cook them on you, but im sure there is alot more ppl on here that have different temps so ask around and try one

 

[craig]

thank you boothy, I will lower the temps.