Peggy laid her eggs!!!!!!!!

[Andregay]

My female veiled laid her eggs yesterday. She is doing good and looking fine. I got her out of the laying bin and gave her water and food and then dug up the eggs. She laid 58 eggs so now it is the waiting game to see if they are going to hatch.

 

[CleaTheChameleon]

Congrats! Glad she laid fine for you!

 

[jannb]

Congrats! Glad to hear that Peggy is doing well. Be sure to give her extra calcium the next couple of days. Liquid calcium if you have it if not just dust heavy with plain calcium without d3. Keep us posted on the eggs, Best of luck with them.

 

[laurie]

We are all happy for you. Now a picture of the nice slim Peggy would be nice. Good luck with the eggs. You are past the part that drives me nuts! Worrying about me female laying without problems.

 

[Miss Lily]

I'm so glad that things worked out for you after a shaky start! I am yet to go through the laying process with Amy, but I remember the awful nervous, pacing the floor feeling that I had when my first cham, Lily, laid her two clutches.

 

[Andregay]

Thanks guys!I am also glad this part is over and now I know that Peggy is going to be fine, but now the waiting starts again to see what happens with the eggs. They all look very good and healthy so I am keeping my fingers crossed. I will try to upload a pic of her, but the last time I tried to load pix it didn't show.

 

[Miss Lily]

Upload the photos to a website such as Photobucket, then you can resize them. Just copy the 'IMG Code' and paste it here into your post.

 

[Andregay]

So it is just past the five month mark and no baby chams so I decided to open some of the eggs and see if anything happened. They didn't look too good anyway so I didn't have high hopes for them. I started opening the really bad ones first and as suspected nothing not even a spec of an embrio so I started on the eggs that looked a bit better and the same result. No babies. I was so dissappointed, but at least Peggy is on her way to lay her second clutch for me now so hopefully I will have better luck with them.

 

[jannb]

So it is just past the five month mark and no baby chams so I decided to open some of the eggs and see if anything happened. They didn't look too good anyway so I didn't have high hopes for them. I started opening the really bad ones first and as suspected nothing not even a spec of an embrio so I started on the eggs that looked a bit better and the same result. No babies. I was so dissappointed, but at least Peggy is on her way to lay her second clutch for me now so hopefully I will have better luck with them.

Don't open the eggs some of them could be good. It takes 8 to 9 months to get babies.

 

[Andregay]

Well after five months there was no sign of anything in the eggs no vains no nothing just with stuff that almost looked like boiled egg so I am sure they were infertile, anyway most of the eggs turned black and they never grew in size so I am pretty sure I did the right thing by opening them and throwing them away.

 

[Andregay]

You can't tell me that after 5 months there would be no sign of any life in the eggs, is that possible?

 

[laurie]

Is she laying a retained clutch or has she bred since the last clutch? If it is retained and she hasn't been bred, I would guess these to be infertile. But never get rid of the eggs cause you just never know.

 

[jannb]

You can't tell me that after 5 months there would be no sign of any life in the eggs, is that possible?

With my eggs not all the eggs had babies in them but some did. Some just had the yellow yoke looking stuff. It took between 8 and 9 months for the babies to hatch. If you opened one early that had a baby in it the baby wouldn't survive.

 

[kinyonga]

Have you had a place for her to dig in the cage since she laid the last clutch because the normal time for them to lay the second clutch would be 120-130 days?

 

[Andregay]

She was with the male on the 25th of November untill the first week in december and I did see them mating so hopefully this clutch will be fertile. I put a container in her cage for her to dig in and I hope she is going to lay soon. How long after mating do they usually lay the eggs and will this funky weather that we have been having delay the egg laying cause we had some hectic rainy weather the last few days and by my calculations she should have laid already?

 

[kinyonga]

Since she was with a male...it should be about 30 days...however, it depends on where she was in the cycle when she became gravid. It can be sooner.

 

[Andregay]

And if she is over her 30 day period how do I know that something is wrong?