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Hello all;
My wife and I are arguing over which is the hardest part about breeding bearded dragons. I say its the incubating of the eggs and raising of the hatchlings. She thinks its getting the dragons to mate in the first place.
Well I guess the big question I'm asking is whos right?
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2.1.1 Bearded Dragon (Ember,Sunshine,Misspiggy,Spyro)
2.2 Leopard Geckos
(Patternless,Blizzard,TremplerAlbino,Hypo Tangerine)
0.1 Bibron Gecko
2 Green Tree Frogs
0.1 Brown Anole
1 Austrailian Shepard (Griz)
3 Cats (Twilight,Hadies,Pietree)
2 Ferrets (Nibbles,Red)

LOL, Getting them to mate is the easy part. Incubating the eggs, as long as you have the right equipment is pretty easy. I would say that raising the hatchlings is the hardest part, at least it takes the most time, space and money.

Sean
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Heart Mountain Herps

the mating is something we really have no control over so that's kind of hard. Incubating is really a snap if you follow the rules. The hard (expensive) part is raising dozens of baby BDs properly.
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Bennett

www.beardiedragon.com

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Edited on August 22, 2004 at 23:22:16 by phwyvern.

Here's another vote for raising the hatchlings. Eat, water , clean up poo, eat, water, clean up poo, eat, water, clean up poo, and it seems to go on this way for weeks!
And then there's the famous saying, "Gosh! I just ordered 2000 crickets 2 days ago. Where did they all go?"
Cricket

day 1
feed crix, feed crix to BDs, water, clean up poo, clean up poo, clean up poo, eat, feed crix to BDs, water, clean up poo, clean up poo, clean up poo, feed crix to BDs, feed crix to BDs, clean up poo, clean up poo
day 2
feed crix, feed crix to BDs, water , clean up poo, clean up poo, clean up poo, eat, feed crix to BDs, water, clean up poo, clean up poo, clean up poo, feed crix to BDs, feed crix to BDs, clean up poo, clean up poo,feed crix, feed crix to BDs, water , clean up poo, clean up poo, clean up poo, eat, feed crix to BDs, water, clean up poo, clean up poo, clean up poo, feed crix to BDs, feed crix to BDs, clean up poo, clean up poo...
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Bennett

www.beardiedragon.com

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Edited on August 22, 2004 at 23:19:07 by phwyvern.

Well written Bennett. That's exactly what I meant! LOL
And then you have to move onto bigger crix for bigger babies, and still keep the small ones available for the hatchling beardies. I breed most of my own crix, so it's not much of a problem for me. But I breed veiled chameleons too. I currently have over 400 babies here, if I combine counting them all. Theres no way I could otherwise afford to feed everybody.
One more thing I'd like to mention is that I've been to your website. You really have some great-looking beardies.
Cricket

kb

if it's easy making a baby or raising one. I think the breeding is the easy part. I mean come on. Males are males. Human, dragon etc. we all have one thing on our minds and it's not raising babies. (Well now I have 6 kids so I guess after a while the breeding aspect does get harder.)For some reason it's not as easy as it used to be.

Mike
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As his wife, I would like to answer to that. You can breed all you want, doesn't mean you're gonna get the desired result. I just think that he should work with the dragons he's got and make sure he can make them "produce" before he buys more! We have enough animals in our house, for God's sake, I'm charging admission as the only zoo in the area already - DO WE REALLY NEED MORE LIZARDS???!! Take this as a public admission - HE WINS! I'll never admitt to anything else, but on this one he can win!
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2.1.1 Bearded Dragon (Ember,Sunshine,Misspiggy,Spyro)
2.2 Leopard Geckos
(Patternless,Blizzard,TremplerAlbino,Hypo Tangerine)
0.1 Bibron Gecko
2 Green Tree Frogs
0.1 Brown Anole
1 Austrailian Shepard (Griz)
3 Cats (Twilight,Hadies,Pietree)
2 Ferrets (Nibbles,Red)

Sounds like my house. I've even had strange people show up on the door with rats and bunnies going 'can we feed the snakes' lol. Hey it's a free meal at least lol.

Sean
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Heart Mountain Herps

This conversation sounds really familiar. Anytime my wife sees me wanting to increase my collection she wants proof of success first. In all honesty though the best way to get great looking dragons is to breed them yourself. That way you always get first pick. But you have to own nice dragons to produce nice dragons. Generally speaking. Good luck!

Mike
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sometimes the males just dont want to breed or they end up shooting blanks (yea it happens), so you need to have a backup breeder. Oh and if the females clutches are no good then maybe she has a problem so it's handy to have an extra female so you can tell if one is infertile or if it's the male. and since you have a few extra BDs you might as well try breeding them too. But since you should never mix pairs during the season (so you can tell where the problem is) than you might need a couple other backup BDs in case one set breeds and the other does not. and then if you.... well you get the idea
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Bennett

www.beardiedragon.com

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Edited on August 22, 2004 at 23:15:06 by phwyvern.

This argument started because I wanted to get two more dragons at a upcoming reptile show in september from capital dragons, (a superorange and a sandfire blood cross) but my wife was reluctant. I just want to add some color to the dragons i already have.
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2.1.1 Bearded Dragon (Ember,Sunshine,Misspiggy,Spyro)
2.2 Leopard Geckos
(Patternless,Blizzard,TremplerAlbino,Hypo Tangerine)
0.1 Bibron Gecko
2 Green Tree Frogs
0.1 Brown Anole
1 Austrailian Shepard (Griz)
3 Cats (Twilight,Hadies,Pietree)
2 Ferrets (Nibbles,Red)