When do Flapneck chameleon start producing eggs?

[EmilyChameleon]

Basically the title says it all haha
When do flapneck chameleon's start to produce eggs?
i have a 5-6 month old female flapneck chameleon
she is rougly around 4" long (havent measured) not inlcuding her tail
Thanks

 

[pantherlover]

She could start producing eggs any time from now to six months from now. Im not sure if you could stop a flapneck from producing eggs at all like you can with a veiled cham....

 

[EmilyChameleon]

Oh wow thats soon.
Good gob she has a build in egg laying box in her new house.
what do i do with the eggs? will she be protective over them or does she just leave them?
Also do i feed her more as she's "brewing" her eggs haha and after aswell?
Thanks for the reply

 

[FranPhilip]

panther, did you say you can stop a female veiled from producing eggs? because i got a female veiled (when i ordered a male) and thats the only thing im worried about, and i really dont plan on breeding her.

 

[Chase]

You can't 100% stop egg producing. If you keep them cooler and Don't stuff them with food, the amount and frequency of the eggs is lowered quite a bit.

LPR08

 

[kinyonga]

IMHO the decrease in feeding is most important just after she lays the eggs (feed her for 2 days after she lays them or so and then cut her back) when she would be starting to produce follicles.

This might help...
http://raisingkittytheveiledchameleon.blogspot.com/2007/12/keeping-female-veiled.html

 

[DavidBuchan]

Oh wow thats soon.
Good gob she has a build in egg laying box in her new house.
what do i do with the eggs? will she be protective over them or does she just leave them?
Also do i feed her more as she's "brewing" her eggs haha and after aswell?
Thanks for the reply

After they are laid and buried she will just leave them - you take the laying box out and carefully put them into an incubator.......you probably know already that you have to keep the eggs 'this way up'

 

[EmilyChameleon]

Yeah already know that which is pretty tricky sometimes!
I havent mated her so do i just throw them out?
Makes me feel like i'm being wasteful haha, she took all that time and effort to make them and i just throw them out lol poor girl

 

[DavidBuchan]

Don't throw them out, Chameleon can sometimes reproduce by parthenogenesis, so there may still be babies (I don't know about Flap-necks, but it happens in Veileds)

 

[kinyonga]

I'd be very interested in reading any information about parthenogenesis in veileds of any other chameleon since at the moment I've only heard the possibility that one could reproduce that way...and its not a flap or a veiled.

Some do reproduce from retained sperm though.

 

[DavidBuchan]

I'd be very interested in reading any information about parthenogenesis in veileds of any other chameleon since at the moment I've only heard the possibility that one could reproduce that way...and its not a flap or a veiled.

Some do reproduce from retained sperm though.

I was sure I'd read it somewhere............but I've been reading about Chameleons for ages, and it's something I always thought. I'm going to assume you're right............. What a waste of time incubating those eggs................oh well, it was only two batches (about 10 years ago).
So which species is it then?

 

[kinyonga]

The one that might be parthenogenetic is the Rhampholeon boulengeri.