serenitystarlite
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I'm almost afraid to post this because of the other thread, but I have a couple questions about breeding veileds that I hope will just be answered so I can decide whether or not to go through with this
I have done a TON of research and I read this forum daily but I'm still kind of uncertain, so I have a few questions.
Ok, here is the scenario. I have a veiled chameleon named Jasmine. She is right around 1 year old. I got her last August and she was really tiny, so I think she was probably born in July of last year. She laid 41 infertile eggs on May 30th. She was showing what I think were receptive colors this past week and I think the week before, so I think she's probably working on more eggs.
One of my friends who has kept and bred chameleons for years just got a male veiled on Thursday and we were talking about breeding them. His male is gorgeous. So the *possible* plan is for me to borrow his male for the weekend and breed him with Jasmine. Then when she lays her eggs, I will dig them up and give them to my friend to put in his incubator. He is going to raise the eggs and babies since I have no experience with eggs or newborns and he does (of course I'll help him with anything he needs, but he shouldn't really need much of anything, I'll just want to see my grand-babies hatching lol).
I'm a little nervous and I don't want to stress Jasmine out or do anything wrong to hurt her. I guess my biggest question is the timing. She's at least a year old, so from what I've gathered she's old enough. If she laid eggs at the end of May and this will be her 2nd clutch, is it too soon to breed her or is now a good time? I've read that veileds will sometimes fight before they breed. How much is too much? I will obviously separate them if they're really hurting each other, but I'm worried that I won't know for sure. I don't want to keep trying if it's too late or if she really just doesn't like him.
Has anyone done this type of "stud service" breeding before? The other thing I'm worried about is stressing out the male since he's new to my friend and has a new cage. Is this too stressful to do to a male?
I feel comfortable with her laying the eggs, especially because I'll have to deal with it again regardless of if they're fertile or not. I'm just worried about the actual mating itself. Is this whole thing a bad idea? Input please and thank you
I have done a TON of research and I read this forum daily but I'm still kind of uncertain, so I have a few questions.
Ok, here is the scenario. I have a veiled chameleon named Jasmine. She is right around 1 year old. I got her last August and she was really tiny, so I think she was probably born in July of last year. She laid 41 infertile eggs on May 30th. She was showing what I think were receptive colors this past week and I think the week before, so I think she's probably working on more eggs.
One of my friends who has kept and bred chameleons for years just got a male veiled on Thursday and we were talking about breeding them. His male is gorgeous. So the *possible* plan is for me to borrow his male for the weekend and breed him with Jasmine. Then when she lays her eggs, I will dig them up and give them to my friend to put in his incubator. He is going to raise the eggs and babies since I have no experience with eggs or newborns and he does (of course I'll help him with anything he needs, but he shouldn't really need much of anything, I'll just want to see my grand-babies hatching lol).
I'm a little nervous and I don't want to stress Jasmine out or do anything wrong to hurt her. I guess my biggest question is the timing. She's at least a year old, so from what I've gathered she's old enough. If she laid eggs at the end of May and this will be her 2nd clutch, is it too soon to breed her or is now a good time? I've read that veileds will sometimes fight before they breed. How much is too much? I will obviously separate them if they're really hurting each other, but I'm worried that I won't know for sure. I don't want to keep trying if it's too late or if she really just doesn't like him.
Has anyone done this type of "stud service" breeding before? The other thing I'm worried about is stressing out the male since he's new to my friend and has a new cage. Is this too stressful to do to a male?
I feel comfortable with her laying the eggs, especially because I'll have to deal with it again regardless of if they're fertile or not. I'm just worried about the actual mating itself. Is this whole thing a bad idea? Input please and thank you