First Eggs!

Hello Everyone,

I just wanted to share some photos of one of our female Bearded Dragons laying some eggs! These are the first Bearded Dragon eggs that I have ever had so I'm really excited about them. Sean's bred and hatched several Bearded Dragons in the past but this is a first for me so I had to snap some pictures. I didn't want want to disturb the female too much so I only took a couple of quick photos.

This girl was originally a rescue animal and as you can see from the photo, she has a little stub tail. She's dark in the pictures since she's in the process of laying eggs but normally, she's a very nice, light tan color with yellow and orange highlights around her head. She was bred by our nice yellow colored Hypo male so these should be some nice babies. She had a total of 21 good eggs and four slugs - not bad for a first time mom!

I can't wait to see the babies hatch!

Thanks,
Celia

http://www.exoticsbynature.com/ksf/7-31-06bearded1.jpg

http://www.exoticsbynature.com/ksf/7-31-06bearded2.jpg

VERY cool!! I don't believe I've ever seen a picture of a beardie laying before! And 21 eggs? (plus a few slugs???) :O She musta been one chunky mamma before laying! Poor little thing! LOL


Congrats on your first clutch!! Can't wait to see some baby pics!!! :clap:

Wow Celia, I wasn't aware they laid that many eggs either! Lovely to see a rescued animal doing so well she's able to successfully breed, great job you've done with her. How long till the baby dragons will appear?

they will lay a lot more than that once they have had a few litters. i usually expect about 25-30 from my females.
matt fisher

Congrads Celia :gj:

Looking forward to pics of baby dragons soon :clap:

Congrats on finally getting eggs! Ha....she finally got around to laying :D

Congrats!!! Exciting isn't it

very cool. what did you do for nesting?

Gotta love that dragon grouchy look. Like "excuse me...laying eggs over here!" LOL

Thanks everyone! The day after this girl laid her eggs, her cage mate (a rescue girl as well) laid too! She had 14 good eggs and 2 slugs so we have a nice little group of eggs incubating now! Both this girl and the other one were bred by the same male and both of these were first time clutches. A great job on both moms' parts!

I have heard of more seasoned females laying much larger clutches of eggs. A friend of mine says he has a female that lays 30 to 35 eggs like clockwork.

We put the gravid girls in a large rubbermaid container that is full of this real sandy top soil that we get at our local feed store. They seem to really like the substrate. When we see the females digging we'll take them out and put them in the lay box until they lay their eggs. It's a pretty good sized container and we keep a heat lamp on it and everything. So far, it's worked very well!

Thanks,
Celia

have you tried putting the container in the cage and cutting an access hole for her to enter and dig?

Nice pics! Great beardie.

We haven't tried putting a lay box in the cage because there's really not enough room for the large lay box we like to give them. Right now, we're using something that is about 25 inches tall x 15 inches deep x 18 wide so we are able to give them a few feet of substrate to dig down in. They seem to really want to dig down deep to lay their eggs.

Thanks,
Celia