MY turn?

[JordanAng420]

Okay, WHY is it that i've put over a year of time, effort, education, experiance and money into these beautiful animals. I've wanted a hatchling of my own for a LONG time and have prepared myself for everything...I plan on doing everything for my own sake and i'd actually like to keep them all....if I ever GET hatchlings that is.

What irritates me is all these people who don't even TRY...some don't even have incubators and they're popping up leopard geckos all over the place that they have no room for, crashing the market for the legitamate breeders because they can't get rid of them.

So why is it that the girl who's fully prepared, who wants to breed for all the RIGHT reasons, can't have any fertile eggs or hatchlings? But those that have no supplies, no nothing, just manage to put a male and a female together and "POOF" they have babies. Grrrr.

 

[robin]

yeah it can be frusterating. how many females you breed this year?

 

[JordanAng420]

Well, I have one that just started ovulating last month, so I bred her for the first time. And no suprise, the first clutch she laid today looks infertile. Back in June or July, I bred my other two girls (to a male who has since passed away), and neither of them produced anything fertile. I incubate them, they rot and stink after a while, and I throw them away. It's a vicious cycle. I'm just hoping that one of these days i'll get lucky.

 

[sunshinegeckofarm]

Yea I have gone through years of very bad luck with breeding my leopard geckos and its very frustrating. this year I had a decent year but about half of my eggs were infertile, I kept many of the females hatched out and kept one male and traded and sold the rest. I pray next year is better. though I do not breed for profit I just would love the babies being sold to fund feed and supplies for them. I wish you luck because I know from experience that breeding these animals can be challenging. I hope it goes better for you and next year you have lots of eggies that survive and hatch to be healthy lil baby geckos

 

[spykerherps]

Patience young grasshopper.

How old are the female?

 

[robin]

Well, I have one that just started ovulating last month, so I bred her for the first time. And no suprise, the first clutch she laid today looks infertile. Back in June or July, I bred my other two girls (to a male who has since passed away), and neither of them produced anything fertile. I incubate them, they rot and stink after a while, and I throw them away. It's a vicious cycle. I'm just hoping that one of these days i'll get lucky.

are you leaving the males in with the females the entire time?