beardiemommy0146
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Hello, I am a first time breeder and I need some help asap. I would appreciate any help I can get.
Here is my story: My son got a bearded dragon from his god father for his bday. Her name is lizzy jub jubs and she is around 3 years old. We had her for about 6 months and she seemed miserable so we though maybe we should get her a mate to keep her company. I found a boyfriend for her (Todd Toaderson) and brought him home. I introduced them and Jub Jubs began to attack. I quickly learned that Jub Jubs is actually a BOY!!! The guy that I bought Todd Toaderson from refused to take him back so I had to find an enclosure and set up for him asap. So now we have 2 miserable males in separate enclosures, so we bought 2 females to keep them company. They seemed very happy and now we have 4. They began to breed and I researched a lot on beardies and breeding and bought everything I needed to care for them including an incubator incase we got babies from them. We slim (one of our females) laid a clutch about 72 days ago and we carefully excavated them from the sand/soil laying box and placed them in vermiculite in the incubator at 85 degrees with 80% humidity. Her eggs were a deep yellow brown color and I thought there is no way these eggs are good from everything I have researched on line but then I thought I will try to incubate them anyway just incase. Maybe it is her breed that has different colored eggs. I believe Jubs is a German Giant as well as the eggs are at least 5 times the size they were when they were laid. She laid a second clutch about a month later and I incubated them as well at the same temp and humidity. Unfortunately, all but 1 out of the 15 eggs from the second clutch collapsed and started to mold so they had to be tossed. The tragic part of it all is our beautiful girl died 2 days after she laid her second clutch. Me and the kids were very sad and cried lots. Gave her a proper burial and the only comfort we got from it all is that Slim still has some babies on the way to carry on her name. It has now been 72 days and the eggs have not hatched yet. However, 6 days ago 5 out of the 16 eggs deflated completely. I have candled them several times (because of the color of the eggs) to see if they are fertile or if I can see a mass and all of the eggs have the red veins and a dark mass at the bottom of the eggs but I have yet to see a little guy moving around in there. 3 days ago, I decided to pierce one of the completely deflated eggs because I had to see what I have been incubating this whole time. I pierced just the top and made a small tear to look inside. There was no liquid at all in the eggs but there was a hard moist sack of yolk and the bottom of the shriveled up egg was hard, I looked further around the bottom and sides and there was a full grown baby dragon in there. I thought immediately, oh crap. There is a baby in there and I may have just killed it I put it back into the incubator and I have checked on it everyday. The yolk inside still looks moist but the baby is not moving at all. Did I kill it? The other 4 eggs look the same (minus the nosy tear in the shell) but still no babies have errupted. Every day it seems more and more of the eggs are beginning to sweat, leak fluid and then completely deflate. Are all of my babies dying? Please help me. Me and my kids will be devasted if poor Slim died for no reason
Here is my story: My son got a bearded dragon from his god father for his bday. Her name is lizzy jub jubs and she is around 3 years old. We had her for about 6 months and she seemed miserable so we though maybe we should get her a mate to keep her company. I found a boyfriend for her (Todd Toaderson) and brought him home. I introduced them and Jub Jubs began to attack. I quickly learned that Jub Jubs is actually a BOY!!! The guy that I bought Todd Toaderson from refused to take him back so I had to find an enclosure and set up for him asap. So now we have 2 miserable males in separate enclosures, so we bought 2 females to keep them company. They seemed very happy and now we have 4. They began to breed and I researched a lot on beardies and breeding and bought everything I needed to care for them including an incubator incase we got babies from them. We slim (one of our females) laid a clutch about 72 days ago and we carefully excavated them from the sand/soil laying box and placed them in vermiculite in the incubator at 85 degrees with 80% humidity. Her eggs were a deep yellow brown color and I thought there is no way these eggs are good from everything I have researched on line but then I thought I will try to incubate them anyway just incase. Maybe it is her breed that has different colored eggs. I believe Jubs is a German Giant as well as the eggs are at least 5 times the size they were when they were laid. She laid a second clutch about a month later and I incubated them as well at the same temp and humidity. Unfortunately, all but 1 out of the 15 eggs from the second clutch collapsed and started to mold so they had to be tossed. The tragic part of it all is our beautiful girl died 2 days after she laid her second clutch. Me and the kids were very sad and cried lots. Gave her a proper burial and the only comfort we got from it all is that Slim still has some babies on the way to carry on her name. It has now been 72 days and the eggs have not hatched yet. However, 6 days ago 5 out of the 16 eggs deflated completely. I have candled them several times (because of the color of the eggs) to see if they are fertile or if I can see a mass and all of the eggs have the red veins and a dark mass at the bottom of the eggs but I have yet to see a little guy moving around in there. 3 days ago, I decided to pierce one of the completely deflated eggs because I had to see what I have been incubating this whole time. I pierced just the top and made a small tear to look inside. There was no liquid at all in the eggs but there was a hard moist sack of yolk and the bottom of the shriveled up egg was hard, I looked further around the bottom and sides and there was a full grown baby dragon in there. I thought immediately, oh crap. There is a baby in there and I may have just killed it I put it back into the incubator and I have checked on it everyday. The yolk inside still looks moist but the baby is not moving at all. Did I kill it? The other 4 eggs look the same (minus the nosy tear in the shell) but still no babies have errupted. Every day it seems more and more of the eggs are beginning to sweat, leak fluid and then completely deflate. Are all of my babies dying? Please help me. Me and my kids will be devasted if poor Slim died for no reason