Umbral
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Our female Pogona henrylawsoni has been looking very chunky over the last week or so, we have been occasionally gently feeling her to see how far along she is and only yesterday did we feel the first lump. We came home today to find she had covered up the hole she had dug in her nesting tub and was looking very deflated, needless to say my wife and I were very pleased.... That is until I realised that the heat cord and thermostat I have ordered haven't arrived yet and I obviously haven’t got the incubator sorted out or temps right for that matter.
Anyway I set up a tub with moist critter crumbles in it and rigged up a spare thermostat and heat cord as a make shift incubator (It's not ideal I know but it's the best I can do for a few days and I have hatched out a clutch of beardies (with permission ofc.) with 100% success rate a few years ago with this method.).
I was expecting to find maybe six eggs max as this is her first clutch (She's three I have waited till this year to breed her as I didn't want to rush it and risk putting her in danger.). We dug up 1 egg with nothing around it, I was still happy... Then we kept digging thinking that for her size that couldn't be the only egg and found three more (YAY!)... Oh wait there’s more, the poor girl laid eleven healthy looking eggs on her first go!
She had a nice big meal of veggies and roaches, and the wife and I are feeling very happy for ourselves
Now to wait for the womas who I am thinking should be another two weeks or so, I WILL have everything set up for them. I'm a little ashamed that I didn't realise how far along our beardie was but this is our first time and I won't be making that mistake again!
Anyway I set up a tub with moist critter crumbles in it and rigged up a spare thermostat and heat cord as a make shift incubator (It's not ideal I know but it's the best I can do for a few days and I have hatched out a clutch of beardies (with permission ofc.) with 100% success rate a few years ago with this method.).
I was expecting to find maybe six eggs max as this is her first clutch (She's three I have waited till this year to breed her as I didn't want to rush it and risk putting her in danger.). We dug up 1 egg with nothing around it, I was still happy... Then we kept digging thinking that for her size that couldn't be the only egg and found three more (YAY!)... Oh wait there’s more, the poor girl laid eleven healthy looking eggs on her first go!
She had a nice big meal of veggies and roaches, and the wife and I are feeling very happy for ourselves
Now to wait for the womas who I am thinking should be another two weeks or so, I WILL have everything set up for them. I'm a little ashamed that I didn't realise how far along our beardie was but this is our first time and I won't be making that mistake again!
