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My female beardie just laid her seventh clutch of eggs a couple of days ago. Unlike usual though she hasn't been eating well, then I noticed blood in a stool. There was an egg case in one as well, (I don't know if this was from the male). I have sepereated them now. She seems to be loosing water aswell??
I'm gonna take her to the vets, but just wanted to know if anyone has any ideas. Or if it is usual for the female to behave in this way at the end of the season?!?
Thanks for any info.

You said there was egg shell and blood in her stool?

Have you counted the number of eggs she laid last and do you remove them from her enclosure and put them in an incubator?

I'm no professional buy In My Opinion she could have eaten one of her own eggs and it could have cut her internally.

I don't know thats just a my guess.

I agree you should take her to do vets office asap if she's becoming dehydrated.

Good luck and I hope everything turns out to be fine.
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i wouldn't have thought an egg could cut her, they are kinda soft shelled.
I've given her some vits in water, syringe style, and now she's had a couple of locusts.
Hope she perks up my male is missing her, next he'll be ill!!

if she is really thin you can feed her a pinky or 2 too beef her up.
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A vet check is deffinitely in order. Though I am no expert with egg laying, it sounds to me she may have unlayed eggs within her. An extra large egg or two may be stuck and ruptured hence why you saw bits of egg shell and blood in her stool. Also this being her 7th clutch she may be very tired and not have pushed out all her eggs and may wind up be egg bound with unlaid eggs.

I certainly would keep her away from the male if they are not already. She doesn't need the extra stress of him trying to mate her more. In fact she shouldn't be encouraged to have more clutches anymore this season, not many females I have heard of had 7 clutches in one year. No wonder she's tired.

Well she seems to have perked up a bit, and ate a nice helping of crickets. I'm waiting to see what comes out the other end before going to the vets. Thanks for all your input.
I have read, in quite a few places, that for a two year old female seven clutches is fairly normal. I also read that they lay eggs (all be it unfertile) even if they are not mated with, anyone know if that is true?

When I got my first beardie she was egg bound, and never around a male, so yes they can lay eggs not being with a male. She was only given 5 crickets a day and no veggies/greens at all and was a year old. I (so does the Vet) belive that her unability to lay the eggs were due to her lack of nutrition. Once I got her she ate 50 crickets a day for a while, then got way too fat and lowered them to about half. Hope that helps!

Just in case anyone is interested, thought I'd let you know what the vet said.

Due to the fact that she's had seven clutches she may be a bit tired, however, she does have a higher level of worms and parasites, sounds disgusting, but they are usual in beardies, just that hers are a bit high, probably 'cos shes a bit weak. Other than that he said she's a very healthy specimen.
So he gave me some medicine to get rid of the bugs, she should be fine soon. He thinks her reduced appetite is a combination of shedding and being under the weather. (I hope he's right). He also said that, as she is/was quite a healthy girl, he wouldn't be concerned if she didn't eat for up to two weeks. (That frightens me though).

I asked him if I should've seperated them sooner so that she didn't have so many clutches, he said that it probably wouldn't have made any difference, as she would produce clutches they just wouldn't all be fertile.