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Can someone give me some good info on who are good breeders of GG's?

Try Kevin at Dragon's Den. He has some nice bloodlines. My GG female is going to be huge.
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Agreed. He has some germans available right now I believe. I bought a blood male from him in January of this year and I couldn't be happier with him. He sells lovely, healthy animals.

His website isn't completely up to date right now, but if you email or call him he'll tell you what he's got.

www.dragonsdenherp.com/
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Amanda
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2.0 bearded dragons (Ocho / Domo-kun)
0.1 kingsnake (Rio)
1.0 ferret (Playstation)
1.0 cat (Wally)
0.1 dog (Tima)

i'm relatively new to berdies so, i dont really know waht GG's are. can someone explain them me?

I don't know the history, hopefully someone else can fill that in.

Basically they are just larger and hardier than other beardies. A lot of breeders like to breed them into their bloodlines because they are known for producing big, healthy babies.
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Amanda
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2.0 bearded dragons (Ocho / Domo-kun)
0.1 kingsnake (Rio)
1.0 ferret (Playstation)
1.0 cat (Wally)
0.1 dog (Tima)

Pete Weis introduced German Giants. They are just bigger dragons that grow faster and have tons of spunk. German Giants hold the record for eggs laid, in one cluch a female laid 68 eggs. It no wounder, because she came from Dragon's den. They are simple really tan to brown, small heads. They are know to be more aggressive, and males can grow more that 24". That about all I know. Warren Peterson

Author: CheriS
Date: Fri Nov 28 22:36:13 2003
Subject: Beardie History 101

p. vitticeps also called Inland bearded dragons because they come from the interior of Australia are found in the Queensland, New South Wales, South Australia and the Northern Territory Areas of that country. The ones from the further west area of the Northern Territory are longer, larger overall and heavier bodied that those found in the others with the ones in north-western Queensland being the smallest.

The majority of bearded dragons in other counties had come from the Queensland, New South Wales and South Australia areas through Tasmania.

A large group of the bigger boned p. vitticeps was brought to Papua, New Guinea from the north west area of the Northern Territory (Papua New Guinea is Northeast of Australia and closest to this area). From there they made their way to Indonesia, the Netherlands and finally ended up in Germany.

The Germans at that time were one of the leading areas of the world in herpetology outside of Australia. Recognizing they had a unique line of bearded dragons, but still vitticeps, they selectively bred those larger dragons to keep that size and heartiness in them.

They are called German Giants, but the Germans did not make them, they occurred in nature. But we do have the Germans to thank for preserving that line and their careful breeding of them. They take very seriously inbreeding and avoid it in their reptiles, preferring more to seek out health and vitality than colors... they had an advantage also in that there was a good size gene pool to work with from these.

I have talked to one of the people that received several of these large boned dragons and one of the females he got, a large dull brown female, never laid eggs under the count of in the 40's and had clutches in the 50-60's.

Kevin Dunne, of Dragons Den, a few years ago had a large female that laid eggs in the 60's also, I think it was 68. I suspect (do not know) that female probably came from this line also

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