I’ve tried many methods of incubating bearded dragon eggs and the method I find that works the best is to get a plastic box and lid with a few small air holes in it, fill it about 3 cms/ 1 inch deep with vermiculite, and add water until it’s all damp.Īdd the eggs and leave this in the airing cupboard, checking regularly to see if the eggs are drying out, if they are just add in more water to the substrate. You can read more details on bearded dragon eggs.
Pogona can lay up to 25 eggs in a single clutch and can lay up to 6 clutches over the course of several months – my female dragon took about 3 months and every 2 or 3 weeks would lay another clutch until she finally started laying infertile eggs.ĭuring this time it’s important to ensure that plenty of food is provided dusted in calcium, if there is a lack of calcium then the eggs will be formed by taking calcium away from the dragon’s bones. The female Bearded Dragon will dig in various spots and this can go on for days until she finally digs a good burrow, just make sure the substrate is damp so that it doesn’t collapse. By adding a large piece of bark over the top, it’ll mean you can be a bit shallower with the amount of soil, although the whole vivarium will need to be at least 4 inches deep with larger mounds up to 10 inches deep. I recommend a damp bearded dragon substrate made from equal parts vermiculite, play sand, and topsoil.
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How to Help Bearded Dragons Lay their Eggs Females will generally always develop eggs providing they are happy. You don’t really need to do anything special other than keeping a male and female dragon together in an enclosure with adequate space, they will go through various courtship displays and some fighting, often circling each other and the male will bite the back of the head of the female to immobilize her in order to mount.īooks do mention creating rest periods and altering the heat to simulate seasonal behaviour to encourage breeding but I’ve never needed to do this. To do this, simply hold the dragon and lift the tail up over their back looking at the vent/ cloacal opening between their legs, you should see two bulges on either side of the base of the tail after the vent with an indentation in the center of the tail between the hemipenes. Males will have a line of dark dots called femoral pores that will be much more pronounced than the female, it is hard to miss them on a male dragon.Īlso, you can check for hemipenal bulging which will be absent in the female to determine their sex. In juveniles it is much harder to recognize this, so we have to look at the rear legs. You can tell an adult male from a female from the shape of the head, the male will have a larger more rounded head with a larger beard looking quite bullish, whereas the female will have a much thinner and narrow head. It is quite difficult to accurately sex a young bearded dragon under 3 months old but it can be done. How to look after baby Bearded Dragons Sexing Bearded Dragons
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