Female laying problems

VampyreByte

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I have a female Halloween mask TUG snow. I breed her last season and she layed 3 times. All were only one egg each and they were always gooey and oozing. I'm thinking she might have punctured the egg getting it out. I thought maybe since last season was her first laying season that maybe was why. But this year I breed her again and she layed a single egg last week with the same problem.

Has anyone else had this problem?

Should I just not breed her anymore or what might be going on?

I have other females that have layed good eggs and this female is probably one of my fattest, heathiest looking females. So i'm not concerned with nutrition. She is fed on Super worms and crickets and has dust in her feeding bowl all the time that she can lick up.

Thanks for any input!
 

acpart

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All I can say is that some females are not good breeders. I have a lovely Raptor female that I bred for 2 seasons to a proven male. The first season she laid small, infertile eggs outside the lay box. I made sure to fatten her up the second season and the same thing happened, with a few eggs inside the lay box. She is now in my "retired breeders" colony. It may be worth trying to breed her to a different male if you have one. That helped a bit with one of my other females years ago who laid nothing but infertile eggs with one male, produced 2 offspring with a different male at the end of that season and 1 offspring the next season with the original male.

I have had the following disappointing things happen with female breeders:
--lays huge numbers of fertile eggs season #1, lays only a few season #2 and does not produce any fertile eggs after that
--lays infertile eggs consecutive seasons despite appearing to be in great condition

I breed 4.8 geckos and have not yet had a season where I've gotten hatchlings from all 8 females, which is probably lucky given the space I have for hatchlings.

Aliza
 

VampyreByte

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Bismarck, ND
Thanks aliza
This is actually a different male from the one We breed her with last year. So she just might Not be good for breeding. Which sucks I was looking forward to some Nice geckos out of her.
 

Gembodh

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I think your gecko not healthy
Give some multivitamin and dust to cricket or worm
Maybe that can help your gecko helthy again
 

Terrain_pull up

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I also have a similar problem with a mack raptor female I've tried breeding for 3 years. I'm starting to think that she is just not a good breeder either. It is definitely disappointing since we invest sometimes a lot of money and time into their care...lol Such is nature I guess.
 

VampyreByte

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Bismarck, ND
Yeah it sucks But I guess thats the way it goes sometimes. It was just her first egg of this season. So maybe it'll turn around But I'd be surprised.
 

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