Jay@PJCReptiles
"Quality Before Quantity"
Hi Everyone,
We have become somewhat well known around our parts as the "snake people" at our local pet stores. (I don't get it :shrugs: ) Anyway, people will come into the stores and ask questions and sometimes they will direct them to us for some help. A little while ago someone had come into our daughter's store and they had a clutch of Bearded Dragon eggs that were laid in the water bowl. We tried to save all the eggs we could and placed them in the incubator. Most of them were pretty much doomed from the start be we did successfully hatch out two of them. A short time after that we had received another call about another clutch of Beardie eggs. This time they were laid in the sand and collected by the owners. They did not have the means to incubate them so they asked us if we would do it for them. We were more then happy to oblige. There were originally 27 eggs but only 17 have proven to be good. Yesterday they started to pip ( if that's what you call it in the lizard world) and a few have immerged from their eggs. PJ had noticed something a little different about one of the babies in the egg. She thought what she saw was a Beardie with two tails. In fact the egg contained twins. These guys are really small to begin with as a single occupant but this pair is very tiny. They look very healthy and seen fine but they are still attached to one another via the umbilical cord. PJ let them absorb most of the remaining yolk sack and then tied both ends off with some dental floss. I wanted her to do this as I was worried they might tug against one another and one of them could be fatally injured. I hope they separate soon. One lesson has come from all of this. We proved/learned that we can incubate Beardie eggs to full term. That was a pretty good feeling, not that it was very hard. PJ snapped some pictures for you to see these little buggers. Thanks for looking and I hope you like.
Jay & PJ
We have become somewhat well known around our parts as the "snake people" at our local pet stores. (I don't get it :shrugs: ) Anyway, people will come into the stores and ask questions and sometimes they will direct them to us for some help. A little while ago someone had come into our daughter's store and they had a clutch of Bearded Dragon eggs that were laid in the water bowl. We tried to save all the eggs we could and placed them in the incubator. Most of them were pretty much doomed from the start be we did successfully hatch out two of them. A short time after that we had received another call about another clutch of Beardie eggs. This time they were laid in the sand and collected by the owners. They did not have the means to incubate them so they asked us if we would do it for them. We were more then happy to oblige. There were originally 27 eggs but only 17 have proven to be good. Yesterday they started to pip ( if that's what you call it in the lizard world) and a few have immerged from their eggs. PJ had noticed something a little different about one of the babies in the egg. She thought what she saw was a Beardie with two tails. In fact the egg contained twins. These guys are really small to begin with as a single occupant but this pair is very tiny. They look very healthy and seen fine but they are still attached to one another via the umbilical cord. PJ let them absorb most of the remaining yolk sack and then tied both ends off with some dental floss. I wanted her to do this as I was worried they might tug against one another and one of them could be fatally injured. I hope they separate soon. One lesson has come from all of this. We proved/learned that we can incubate Beardie eggs to full term. That was a pretty good feeling, not that it was very hard. PJ snapped some pictures for you to see these little buggers. Thanks for looking and I hope you like.
Jay & PJ
