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grimdog
at Mon Jun 30 09:50:38 2003 [ Email Message ] [ Show All Posts by grimdog ]
As for breeding age goes it depends on the dragon. Some dragons will breed before one year and be fine others won't. A dragon that hits 400 grams in under a year and stabilized there and takes on all adult characteristics is ready to breed. A dragon can hit 500 grams at under a year and not develop its adult characteristics yet and therefor isn't ready to breed. I have an awesome orange dragon male, put him with a female and he does nothing, yet he is my biggest dragon at 505 grams yesterday. Oh well he isn't ready to breed the ladies yet. I put a male and a female together and you can tell if the female is receptive to the male by her actions. Immature females act very differently then fully matured females act. This is my opinion. I do however think that male and female dragons should be seperated after the first 3-4 months though, because the males could develop maturity first and start to breed the female before she is ready. Although he may not impregnate her, he will cause her undo stress. However you can tell when a dragon is ready to breed. Alot of people on her breed at one year of age, some won't admit it some will. Kevin from dragon's den has said he has done it and has had dragons go strong into year 5. You have to be observant of your dragon's behavior and it will tell you when it is ready to breed. There are clear differences between juvinille dragons and adults and the differences are very clear and can crop up over night. Also 18 months is a not so magical time, as if the dragon burmates the first year 18 months is probably too young, possibly even worse than 12 months of a dragon that did not brumate in its first year. I also believe clutch number has something to do with it. A first clutch dragon I believe grow and mature much faster than 2nd 3rd clutch dragons, this is my opinion also. Just wanted to throw out another point of view.
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Derek Affonce
DeKeAff Exotics
dekeaffexotics.com
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 Breeding Age for Dragons - grimdog, Mon Jun 30 09:50:38 2003
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