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as far as i know, and im not a breeder but ive been reading this forum and talking to cham breeders for quite some time,

a male veil can be bred at 6-8 months, but you can (and in my opinion SHOULD) wait until 1 yr.

Female veils should not be bred until they are 1 year old, to allow for full growth and development, and to put some weight on them as egg laying and breeding are very stressful.

Im sure someone will reply and correct me, but that's the information ive always been given.

Hope that helps,
Jamie
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You are correct saying that you should waite till around a year to breed females. They can be bred as young as 6 months, but the risks of her dieing and/or the young dieing or being unhealthy and later dieing is very large at younger ages than a year.

Males can be bred at 6 months. There is nothing wrong with breeding them that young if they will breed.
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From Sunny Florida
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You know, its strange and funny...but the other day, i read in one of my chameleon books(published in the mid 90's) states that a veild should be bred at 5 months or so to avoid egg binding. Doesn't seem to make sense, so i brushed it off as outdated news. Then, i read the same thing in another book(published in 2000). I never bred my chameleons that young, but isn't rather strange that two books suggested the same thing.You guys think there is any truth to that? Worth a thought...

it used to be believed that in order to keep a female veiled alive, she had to be bred right away..........
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I think I have about 3 or 4 books that all say that. It says if they miss their first mating they will "almost always die egg bound when they do become gravid." It's not true at all. I didn't breed my female veiled until she was 10 months old and HUGE and she laid 43 large perfect fertile eggs with no problems at all. I think nowadays the belief is exactly the opposite. If you breed them too young, they usually have coplications. Funny how it has changed so much in only a few years.
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