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I have an 11 month old 250gram female who just laid her first clutch of eggs...don't freak out! they are all slugs, she hasn't been with a male yet. I have a 4 year old female that has gone through many clutches and her first egg laying experience was with fertile eggs (by accident).

so what i am wondering is...for people that wait until the dragon is 18 months and more than 350 grams, do you just wait till then and discard the unfertile eggs? what is the difference if the dragon lays fertile or unfertile eggs? I would think that either case would put just as much demand of the females body (as far as the large calcium sink in producing the eggs shell). the embryo development doesn't really take place until after the eggs is layed. right? so why is it bad to do premature breeding?
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a free range dragon is a happy dragon

I found out the difference this year because my girl was bred by accident to young, she lost a ton of weight and there was a lot of stress on her body from producing the small amount of eggs that she did. This year she's produced 62 eggs so far only 33 are fertile but I wasn't going for anything big since this is the last time she's being bred and I've noticed from this last clutch that the slugs take less of a toll on her body than a completely fertile clutch since the eggs from a fertile clutch come out much bigger so I would really recommend waiting until next year to let her body develop the rest of the way so that its ready for a fertile clutch.