Eggs

[delitrav]

Hello everyone, right i have two superb male yemen chameleons and i wanted a girl, NOT just for breeding curiousity but as i had 2 boys and an empty huge viv i wanted a girl. Well my local reptile shop came up with a lovely girl aged about 1 and a half years old. So i went and got her, wow she was huge, stunning and very tame. So i brought her home, showed her to her new home. About 3 days later i noticed she was wandering around the floor and digging here and there, so i made her a 2ft square nesting site, filled it with a mix of peat and sand and left her to it, yesterday she dug a huge tunnel in it, laid some eggs and covered them up.

Today i dug them up for incubation, she had laid 43! Some however were yellow, some were yellow and white but most are bright white, now for the questions........1) are the yellow ones dead? 2) could she of been mated before i got her and the white ones are fertile and 3) i have tried the torch thing behind them but saw no blood vessels, are they infertile? Im new to this and clearly have no idea.lol

Thanks

 

[pssh]

It's possible that they are fertile if she had previously been mated. You would not see anything this early. Do a quick search to find all the stuff you'll need to incubated them (if you even want to.)

 

[delitrav]

HIya thanks for the reply, i have incubated them, i spent acouple of days reading all i could about incubating, i just hope ive got it right :s they are in vermiculite, with a thermometer in the vermiculite, and i have a thermostat on 78 degrees. Im so excited but nervous at the same time if that makes sense.

 

[Brad Ramsey]

You'll know in a few weeks if any of them are good or not.
Getting an animal that old from that source, there's no way of knowing whether or not she has been exposed to a male.
My guess (based on the yellow coloration of some of them) is that they will prove to be infertile.

-Brad

 

[delitrav]

Thanks Brad, i thought the obvious yellow ones were infertile, can they lay infertile and fertile at the same time? I did so much reading about gravid females and still think i know nothing.lol Im incubating at 75-80 degrees is this right as i have just read that 66-70 is the correct temp. Im just glad she(yola) is ok, im sure if i wanted to mate her in the future she would love yemmy(one of my males) he is a hansome fellow.lol

 

[kinyonga]

They can produce fertile eggs and infertile ones in the same clutch. It depends on when they are mated within their cycle.

The vermiculite should be only slightly moist...take a fist full of it...you should only be able to squeeze a drop or two of water from it. If you make the vermiculite too moist the eggs will take on too much water and the embryos will suffocate. I incubate them at about 74C.

If you overfeed her she will produce larger clutches. Its important to feed her well for a couple of days after she lays the eggs, but then I cut them back for a few weeks (until they are working on the next clutch) so that they hopefully will grow less/no follicles.

 

[delitrav]

Ahhhhh thankyou, i think i got the vermiculite/water mix right. Im hoping she has got some fertile ones. I looked today and there are some really yellow almost orange ones. So im guessing they are infertile. I have given her extra food since she laid, she looks so much skinnier now, but i will cut it down, thanks for that advice, very much appreciated.