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falias
at Wed Sep 3 16:11:01 2003 [ Email Message ] [ Show All Posts by falias ]
Where do you live? Any feed store has incubators. I personally prefer little giants. Any place that sells stuff for horses and cows and such had incubators.
But...you are in big trouble if you had accident eggs. Your best bet is to find a breeder that will take them in your area. Raising and selling bearded dragons is for people with no other job, or kids, or life. You can not leave your house for more then 6 hours at a time EVER. The babies have to be fed regularly, if not...they eat eachother..tail, toes, ect. It also costs somewhere between $900 and $1200 dollars to properly raise 20 dragons to 6 weeks old..the first time you do it. This will NOT be your last clutch, you could be getting up to 160 eggs. You will probably be getting 80 or so at least.
Also don't expect to much help from this forum. There have been so many people begging for help to correct the trouble caused by keeping your dragons in abusive situations that people are getting tired of giving the same answers over and over.
You should try your best to keep your eggs between 80 and 86. Don't go over 89 even for a minute. Temps over 90 kill. Youo need to get proper vermiculite filled containers to put the eggs in, but moist (NOT WET) paper towles may work for a few days. If you see the eggs start to wrinkle add more moisture..so not get the eggs themselves wet, just the substrate.
NEVER TURN THE EGGS. Where did she lay them? Did you make a laying bin? Did you dig them up? When you dig them up be VERY careful to keep them in the exact position they were laid in. Do not turn or tilt them if possible. You might want to SOFTLY mark the top with a pencil in case you were to accidently turn one, you would know the correct postion.
Get a book. Read FAQs and Caresheets online.
It may be best for the dragons to let the eggs die, truthfully.
If you were neglectful enough to "accidently" breed your poor dragon, you probably are NOT cut out for the 4 or more hours a day hatchlings take for care, or the 2-3 hours more advertising them takes. Unless you WORK extremely hard you will NOT be able to find homes for SO many dragons, even if you give them all away and takes hundreds of dollars in loses. There are way to many baby dragons out there, and no where near enough people to take them.....lets hope you have some really beautiful parents.
BTW. there is NO way to acciedently breed dragons. If you take a male and a female and put them together they will breed. Don't know how to sex your dragon? Then you should have gone to a herp vet. If you are going to buy a pet, you MUST be responsible for it.
These are not "accidents" or "suprises" they are NEGLECT and ABUSE. I am sure you have some special circumstances though...everyone does. ----- MY Dragons!!
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