The eggs will obviously be infertile. The only thing that will stop her is to have her spayed but not all vets are competent to do this and her age may make it risky. It is a difficult situation. For now all you can do is make sure she gets plenty of calcium, the correct heat and a good quality uv.

 

Thanks for your response.

I don't want her to go through a heavy operation with a painfull recovery.

Yes heat, calcium and UVB are all in order. Also i've bought her a big egglaying box today i hope she will like it. (It is a solid instead of see-trough box) and also deeper then her old one.

Does anyone else have a bearded dragon that insists on laying more eggs then a bio-industry chicken?

 

To be honest the operation if done correctly is not that bad well in my experience it wasn't. My girl was back to her normal self pretty much straight away but I did have a reptile expert vet which helped. But yes I can understand your reluctance with regard to this. To be honest your female is not unusual and there are many that do churn eggs out fairly constantly. All we can do is give the best care and laying boxes and hope for the best.

 

Ah ok. Poor girl. I always hate to see her strugle like that.

She gets so upset. She want out of the viv-back in the viv-out of the viv-back in the viv-out of the viv-back in the viv - out of the viv-back in the viv scratching my arms open

Constant tiny stress poops then digging the same hole 50 times....

I hate to see her so uncomfertable again for the coming months :whip: And all for eggs that go in the trash :whip:

 

Its quite common for them to produce eggs, I wouldnt say it was the presence of a male doing it either.

Obviously, with a successful mating theres going to be several clutches, 5 or 6 is about average normally with the last clutch showing signs of invertile eggs or mostly duds. The whole egg production takes a huge amount, as you have seen, which means almost loading them with food and calcium dusting every scrap.

Work on feeding her up and also time to run around in an open space, maybe bait them with livefood and get them chasing you for a locust or something, build on the activity.
Basically feed her up and put her through the gym.
With good supplementation, and a bit of rehab like this, you can do a lot to get them fit and healthy again, which will mean the egg production and laying wont be an issue. Make sure you have the ability to setup a laybox so if she becomes gravid, the day she starts running round scrabbling at every corner to dig you can get her in to the box and lay..

If you really want that laybox to succeed on the first few tries, set something up thats a big wide tub, position a lamp over it and fill the box a good 10 inches or so with excavator substrate. When you mix it heat the water to 40C and mix in. it will cool down but keep some heat, you want the substrate to be about 25C. Fill the bottom with this for about 5 inches, mix in a bit of sand (about a quarter sand to excavator clay) and fill the rest. Cover half the box so it is a "hidden" place to dig and lay and leave a basking lamp over it if you can.

IF they start digging down, just leave them to it, you will know if they lay because its only then that they try to cover it over. If unsuccessful, pat it all down, put the lamp on to warm it from the top again and maybe give it a misting. If you get the ground the right depth, temp and the "earth" is a proper diggable mix they often lay very quickly.
They dont like being in view of anything when they lay, so want somewhere that will hold temperature and already warm enough, so a good source of light but also some cover protecting the actual hole.

Constant year on year of egg production will have taken a massive toll, and without intentionally reconditioning her each time its a hard grind on the beardie.

I have the same problem with scatha, whos produced eggs 4 years in a row now.

 

Thanks for the response.

She currently *is* very healthy. Why do you recomment 'putting her through' the gym?

She gets extremely restless all by herself (That is for me the sign she is making eggs). Sadly it is really cold in the Netherlands right now to i have to limit ' free roaming' for her for now but she rearranges her viv right now so there is your exercise.

I got her come extra silkworms and Tebo's on her diet and dust all feedings from now on.

I wonder if i may just as well put a male with her now. If she is going to lay eggs either way i would at least like to hatch a few of them....

 

Bad idea.

If she suffers already just laying duds, mating her is only going to make it worse and increase the number of clutches each time.
They can also retain sperm for around a year, and lay fertile eggs the following year.

Plus the whole issue of cohabiting, not recommended for the species either.

 

Well she's laying now anyway. Fertile or not.

I was not planning on cohabbing.

I'll just leave her for now. Hopefully she'll be alright. thanks everyone