miscarriage?

[natedogg]

So.. I am totally new to breeding leos and pretty new to them in general. I have a female that I thought was gravid(white spots on belly, getting bigger). Everything seemed to be fine. Over the past few days she has been having a yellowish mucus type discharge. I have found it in one of her hides and near where she goes to the bathroom. The white spots are smaller now and do not have a profile.

Can someone give me some insite?

 

[Jordan]

are the white discharge things not like the white urates in their poo?
a picture could help.

 

[goReptiles]

She probably absorbed the eggs. Not necessarily a miscarriage. But I'm not sure.

 

[MiamiLeos]

Sometimes a female will reabsorb the eggs if she has not successfully mated, if she is deficient in a certain vitamin necessary for the eggs to form correctly, or sometimes for no aparent reason at all. Just make sure she's nice and healthy and when she'd done with these eggs maybe reintroduce the male and start over. It's nothing to worry about unless it becomes a continous habbit of hers, then she should probaly not be bred.

 

[natedogg]

Jordan, they are not like the white parts of the poo. they are separate from the poo all together and I found them in her main hide as well. Bridgette, do they reabsorb the entire egg, or is there part that they still have to get rid of?

 

[MiamiLeos]

It depends on how far along the eggs are. If they are small, they will usually just absorb the entire thing. If they are fairly far along, sometimes they will pass the entire egg, sometimes you will see the inside of the egg leaked out into the enclosure and the shell absorbed for its calcium. They can absorb an entire full term egg as well, its just less common.