Triple Threat Rescue

[Faenaria]

She's such an angel. She started laying right after I gave her a bath so I'm thinking the warmth helped. Going to take all those ideas for her after care. Laying a huge number of eggs, I don't know where she was hiding them all.

 

[Faenaria]

We're at 17 eggs so far - she acted like she was done, so I gave her a bath and she laid another egg in the tub >.< Raced her back to her lay box and she's laid another.

 

[AHBD]

That's alot of eggs for such a little girl. Be sure to keep her warm + dry, just offer water with a dropper or syringe, or if you don't have either, just wet a paper towel and drip it on her nose. Once she starts covering the hole, she should be done. Once in a while 1-2 more may pop out after, but not usually.

 

[Faenaria]

We're at 18 now, 18 was a hard lay and they seem to be slowing down. Praying that we're almost done. Only 11 eggs that look halfways decent, all the rest are yellow duds.

 

[Faenaria]

Will probably be on the forum all night until she's done. We started just before 5:30, so we're past the first hour at this point.

 

[AHBD]

Be sure to keep a heat lamp over at least part of the lay box since she's wet, it can chill her a little bit. She's probably almost done. You want her to be warm + dry before the lights go out. If you can, keep her tank a little warmer tonight....at least 75, or possibly a few degrees higher.

 

[Faenaria]

My reptile room stays between 75-80 at night. Just the residual heat from the daytime I think, but it stays toasty in here. 19 eggs now and she appears to be burying them again.

 

[Faenaria]

is it true that she is going to lay another clutch in two weeks? I don't know if I could handle the stress all over again.

 

[AHBD]

Not necessarily....it depends. She may have laid clutches before you got her, or this may be her first and only , but usually there are 2-5 [ and more, but probably not with her condition ] and they usually are spaced out by 3 weeks....but 2 weeks is possible, just not definite.

 

[Faenaria]

So it looks like 19 eggs, 8 duds and 11 good. Not sure what to do with the good ones, have stashed them in my toasty warm laundry room.

 

[AHBD]

There are instructions in the breeding forum at the top of the page. I would only be repeating them, so have a look, it's all written there. If you don't have vermiculite for incubating, just use what she layed them in. If you don't want to incubate them,[ I have a feeling that you want to ] you can throw them out , if it's cold out they will perish, if it's not cold where you live, just put them in a double plastic bag with ice cubes, they will not survive that either.

 

[Faenaria]

I just feel like a horrible person if I kill off little baby beardies. Or potential babies

 

[AHBD]

I see you have visions of baby beardies before your eyes....

 

[Faenaria]

The only thing that's got me second guessing is that I can't stand the idea of bringing more baby beardies into the world when I have proof right here in my house that there are lots of unwanted adults who need homes because they stopped being "cute"

 

[AHBD]

Do what you think is best. There is no developed animal yet in the egg of course that can feel, think or do anything.