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Beardie Eggs

Leologan42

Leologan42

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Well last night was exciting our little beardie laid her first clutch of eggs last night. She was a little ahead of our schedule as her incubator is not due to arrive until Monday.

I set up her lay bin last weekend so that she could get a little practice digging out her lay chamber. I guess she figured last night last night was as good as any to get the job done. So she dug her hole backed in and started dropping eggs. Her final count was 24 eggs. 9 of them were duds 15 came out perfect. I set up a temporary incubator in the hopes that I can keep the eggs viable until Monday.

Any tips you folks may have for a temporary incubator set up would be very helpful.
 
Just make sure you can get them settled in for a few days and keep the temps as constant as possible until the incubator arrives. You don't want to stick them in the incubator immediately. Plug it in and give it a "test drive" before placing the eggs in there. Its better to work out the kinks now rather than when there is a clutch in there. It'll save you the clutch :)

The eggs themselves are pretty easy to maintain. They require the same thing that just about every reptile egg requires: heat, constant temps, humidity, and air-flow. Keep your temps around 85, and the humidity around the same as you would with a corn clutch, and you should have babies within about 60 days. As a matter of fact, I incubate my Beardie eggs in the same set up and at the same temps as my Corn clutches lol!
 
I'm pretty excited. They are in little sandwich sterilites with holes in the top for venting. Keeping the temp constant may be the most difficult part of the process. I need to find a way to keep the temps from fluctuating until the incubator arrives. Any suggestions?
 
Small fluctuations are inevitable, even with incubators. You want to stay away from fluctuations in excess of -/+ 10 degrees or greater. I'm not sure what you have available, but I usually incubate my eggs in the closet of my snake room. The ambient temps in the closet have been logged at no lower than 75 and no higher than 82. It usually adds a week or 2 on to the incubation time.

I'm not sure if you have an area of the house that stays around those temps all the time, but if you do then it would be your best bet. You can try using a human heating pad with a heat buffer (such as an additional container or layers between the pad and the actual incubating container) to help get the temps up. Make sure you test out different buffers though... like with the incubator, you don't want to accidently cook the eggs.
 
I have them in my feeder/breeder room right now. The room stays at about 70-75 all the time. I put them under an indirect heat lamp to bump up their specific area temp to 85. How often should the eggs be misted? My main concern in the rooms humidity may be on the low side. Is there a good way to judge visually if the containers humidity is at an acceptable level?
 
Its honestly best to use bottom heat. Heat dissipates better from the bottom. I would put a thermometer in with the eggs and keep a constant eye on it for temps. Using a heat lamp over them is not always the best idea, as temps can spike in an instant. If you are using properly prepared medium with the correct water ratio, and a pseudo air-tight container, then misting shouldn't be required. Mind you, I say "pseudo" because you do want some air exchange. Using large deli cups with pre-drilled holes seems to work perfectly for me. I use sphagnum moss as incubation medium. It works best for me, and helps me maintain humidity in a very dry area. You may find that something else works better for you, but basically, as long as it provides the right amount of moisture and is dense enough to hold temps, then it should work. I've heard of people incubating in damp newspaper strips with success.
 
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