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Hey everyone, Today my bearded dragon possibly laid an egg. It was ovel shape and brown. DOes this mean that my so called male beardie i s infact a female, or is what i found somthing else?

thanks

Garth

Sounds like a slug. Do you have a pic?
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www.moonstonedragons.com

Hey I dont have a pic and will not be able to have one as i tossed it. Whats a slug?

Should i be alarmed

An infertile egg. Fertile eggs are white, slugs are yellow, orange, or possibly brown. It still looks like an egg, but tends to be mushy.
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thanks for the help.

if she laid one egg, she probably has more. I suggest setting up a egg laying box for her. You don't want retained eggs...egg binding can make your dragon very sick, or even die.

MY female has been laying infertile clutches for the past several months...three clutches so far and I think she's gettign ready to lay a fourth...either that or she just likes the cool damp egg laying cage better than the rest of her cage...(if I take her out, she goes crazy trying to dig again...so I just keep putting her back in the egg laying bin...so far no eggs..)
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PHLdyPayne

how do i go about setting up a leg egging box....

I was also wondering how often they lay eggs and how many per clutch

thanks.

FOr my dragon's egg laying bin I just used a bag of children's sifted playsand (about half a bag's worth) some vermiculite (though this isn't necessary but it does help hold moisture in the sand) mixed it and filled about half of a 55l sterlite tub.

I used a plastic bowl which had one side broken off (about a quarter to third around the side of the bowl..it was originally a hide for a ball python but it broke and the opening was thus too big for the snake. I buried this under the sand, and filled it with sand too...and started a bit of a tunnel which lead underneath the open side of the bowl..figured it would be much saver and remove risk of collapsing tunnels, since I didn't have any soil to add to the sand to help with consistency and stability.

I mix the sand (and everything else) with water so its well damp but not muddy or leaking water when I squeezed a handful. I then put a screen frame ontop of the cage and a clamp light shining over it. I put my female into the bin and left her alone. If she doesn't do any digging after a couple hours I put her back in her cage...repeated it again the next day till she laid eggs or stopped digging around the cage.

A female can lay anywhere between 2-6 clutches a season, usually about 3-4 weeks apart (but can be as soon as 2 weeks or as long as 5 or 6 weeks between clutches). How many eggs per clutch also varies...typically the larger the female, the larger the clutch. Some big 24" long females can lay as much as 50 or more per clutch. My female is about 19" and her largest clutch so far is 33 eggs. So clutch size can vary between 15-35 on average...and each clutch can very too.
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PHLdyPayne