Is it possible that tegus breed out of season?
I always though tegus breed after emerging from brumation for about 2 months and my plan was to separate the females during this time because I do not want to breed them. I do not live in North America where many of the literature written by breeders are from, but our climate follows the same pattern (winter and summer are the same months), although it has less extreme temperatures both summer and winters. It is just starting to get cold here after a long hot summer, but one of my female tegu seems to be displaying gravid behaviours of nesting. She does not seem to be aggressive nor any appetite changes though and she does not look swollen with eggs either, just looks normal maybe a little chubby. No I did not see any mating although I could have missed it and a male did chase her around a bit, but that male chases another male around as well. Despite all that, I put in a box of hay and she is going to town with it. Pushing and pulling the hay into a pile. Before I put in hay, I also notice she was digging in a corner and saw water there with no urates (I heard they regurgitate water to their nests).
Despite many people deliberately trying, NO ONE has been able to breed tegus where I am from, and the general talk here is that the winters aren't cold enough. Here I am and I don't want to breed them and I am thinking one is gravid.
Besides, they have NOT just come out from brumation, is it possible that they bred? This is something I really don't need right now with whats going on in my life at the moment. I thought they had to cycle to breed, and people like Langerwerf said if they even miss one winter they will never breed ever...
I did have a false alarm before when someone sold me a chubby female as a male last year, and lied about her being housed alone before. Got an ultrasound and she was having a "mock" pregnancy but no calcified eggs.
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