From her body shape, obesity, tiny feet(compared to her body and limbs) you are lucky she is alive. Remember, laying eggs, is a minimum level of husbandry. It shows conditions/support are barely right. If thats a female, its clearly been in very poor conditions, but at least enough to stay alive for that period.
If you watch that type of thing around here, you see it takes about 3 to 5 years to kill them off, organ damage and such.
You often hear me say, monitors are tuff, well that monitor is very tuff it should have been dead long ago. Truely I wish you well.
As an experienced breeder, I would NEVER, work with that type of animal if I had any choices. Remember, I always say this thing(the successful keeping of monitors) is about making choices. In this case. The choice is about picking an individual that will allow success, not cause you to beat your head against the wall.
One reason I ALWAYS recomend starting with a baby is. YOU KNOW THE HISTORY. With that animal, you have horrible results, so it has to have a poor history. If you think the outside is weird/deformed, what do you think the inside is going to be. Your battle has just took a turn for the worse.
In my opinion, 99% of females can and do breed without problem. That percentage drops as we torture them with all our poor knowledge(thats not right, actual knowledge would not cause that poor results) As we make errors and the monitors bull their way through, that percentage drops and drops and drops. So now your decisions may only allow you a 5 to 10% chance of success. Now ask yourself, are you going to make anymore mistakes? At this point, you have no more room for mistakes. Not a good start.
The absolute truth is, as successful as I am ON A CONSISTANT basis, I make mistakes each and everyday. Some of those, are harmless mistakes. hahahahahahahahaha Some work against that 99% chance I started with. Of course some, drop that percentage to zero.
To make it clear, these mistakes will ALWAYS cause that percentage of success to drop to ZERO. Its just a matter of time.
If you look at that in a logical way, your task becomes meaningful. You should now understand, that your job is not to do this or do that, because some caresheet or someone(fool) said so. Your task is to support a decent percentage. You know, keep that percentage high.
Because we do not know what the heck we are doing(how obvious is that?) a healthy female has a high percentage of having success, but even so, because we are all dumb arsess, we often cause healthy females to fail. YES, you can render a healthy functioning female to ZERO with one mistake.
When you consider, all the monitors that run through this site, year after year. All the females too. Its plain to see that no one should be giving advice. Wait, its ok for them to give advice, you should not be accepting it. As from newbies to experts, you know, ones with giant brains(think mars attacks) that make giant knowledge bases, where everything about everything is known, both fail at about the same rate. Real knowledge does not work like that.
Anyway due to this lack of knowledge. I work on keeping the percentages high. The exact knowledge is not meaningful to me. Things like species and such, and all that stuff monitors are suppose to be. I Don't care. keeping the percentages high works for me. You see, like you, I am unique, I am one of the best, and dumb as a stone. How cool is that? That statement has been make by many. From those same newbies to PHD's. hahahahahahahahahahaha Wait, I am not saying your dumb as a stone, at least not yet, your decisions will place that label on you.
Ok, Ok, forget all that. What I am saying is, DUDE, you have an uphill battle, are you ready for that? Cheers and good luck
