Pregnant Beardie

[LeylasMommy]

Hi All,
So, after finding out that my husbands adult male ate our new baby beardie, we went searching for an adult female. We're considering breeding them. My husband's adult male (Marley) has never been with another dragon, male or female. So, we put Marley with our adult female (Abby), just to see if they'd even get along. They didn't at first, but that's beside the point. We've had Abby for about a week and a half and she's already pregnant, probably from being housed with a male at the reptile place. We've made a lay-box with coco-husk and also we've removed Marley from the terrarium. Abby has been digging all day today and part of yesterday. I guess my question is, when should we expect her to lay? She's already grown plumper and we can see the grape-ish dimples in her stomach. We've set up an incubator as well. Any assistance is greatly appreciated, as we hadn't decided whether we were going to breed them or not, yet, so this pregnancy is a surprise. Thanks!

 

[LeylasMommy]

Please... I really need help...

 

[AHBD]

Just keep her in the laybox with a heat source overtop. Make sure the husk is damp, start a nice deep tunnel for her and check every now and then. If she digs a long time,then takes a break and just looks around, offer her a drink by spraying gently on the tip of her nose with a water bottle. Usually, when they are laying they will face outside of the hole and be kind of still, just wiggling a little now and then to push the eggs out. She will come out when she's done and cover them up.

 

[DragonsNDoodles]

Also, when she's done laying, make sure you don't put the male and female back together until you've done lots of research and are ready to have tons of dragon babies. And when you're ready to breed them, just put the female in with the male for as long as it takes them to mate, then put her back in her own tank. She will just be stressed and can get ill or die from being housed with a male. It's always a bad idea to house a male and female together permanently.