Veiled female unfertalized eggs

[sticky tounge]

Ive been hearing tht veiled female chams need to lay eggs regardless of a male or not and if they dont lay their unfertalized eggs theyll die can anyone give me more information on this plz

 

[camimom]

Ive been hearing tht veiled female chams need to lay eggs regardless of a male or not and if they dont lay their unfertalized eggs theyll die can anyone give me more information on this plz

when taken care of properly, females may not lay eggs at all, but this can be hard to manage, especially for beginners.
Feed less and keep slightly cooler temperatures can help lower the numbers of eggs a female has.
they can lay eggs when not mated, and they can die, when they become eggbound. find jannb's blogs about laying bins.

 

[sticky tounge]

when taken care of properly, females may not lay eggs at all, but this can be hard to manage, especially for beginners.
Feed less and keep slightly cooler temperatures can help lower the numbers of eggs a female has.
they can lay eggs when not mated, and they can die, when they become eggbound. find jannb's blogs about laying bins.

and what exactly is the term eggbound mean

 

[KarmaChameleon1337]

Eggbound means they're threatened so they don't lay their eggs, and the eggs stay inside them, they'd kill it. They are bound to the eggs.

 

[sticky tounge]

Eggbound means they're threatened so they don't lay their eggs, and the eggs stay inside them, they'd kill it. They are bound to the eggs.

so how do u know when theyre ready to lay their unfertalized eggs

 

[KarmaChameleon1337]

I've heard different symptoms, some start digging, I think some have color changes, egg feeling or sights, etc. You need to get a deep laying bin with play sand and do NOT let her see you looking at her, she'll abandon the hole and become eggbound.

 

[okiroo]

get a gram scale. she will also gain wieth that may not be visable.

 

[camimom]

Read this blog.
https://www.chameleonforums.com/blogs/jannb/345-egg-laying-laying-bin.html

And this one.
https://www.chameleonforums.com/blo...-keepers-young-veiled-panther-chameleons.html

 

[kinyonga]

You said..."Ive been hearing tht veiled female chams need to lay eggs regardless of a male or not and if they dont lay their unfertalized eggs theyll die"...some veiled chameleons will produce eggs without mating and some never do. It depends partly on your husbandry...if you overfeed the female constantly and keep her temperatures high then she will likely produce eggs. If you control the diet at the right time in the cycle, it seems to control the reproduction by either cutting down the size of the clutch or stopping reproduction altogether. This seems to depend on how much of a diet you put her on. (There's more to it than this.)

If the husbandry is right, if she has no physical reproductive issues and if she has an appropriate place to lay the eggs and is not watched while digging the hole and not disturbed when she is near egglaying time, the female should have no problem laying the eggs. If she does not have a proper place to lay the eggs she can become eggbound. If she's watched while digging she will abandon the hole and if it happens often enough it can lead to eggbinding. If she is bothered, moved back and forth from one cage/place to another she might become eggbound. If the eggs are fused or misformed or if the reproductive system is not right she can also become eggbound.

If she becomes eggbound, she will go down hill..become lethargic, sit low in the cage, eyes will sink in, dig a hole and act as though she has laid the eggs and fill it in, etc. but by the time you realize this is what's going on its almost always too late to help her.