Removing Eggs

[fallen_angel]

One female laid another clutch this morning and I removed the eggs before she even had time to bury them. Now, when I get close to her cage, she gives me mean looks like I'm a baby snatcher! She "seemed" to be doing this the last time she laid and I removed her eggs too.

I know this is most likely me anthropomorphizing again, but I would still like to ask... Does anyone else's geckos seem angry when you take their eggs away?

 

[Ccrashca069]

The last clutch of eggs I got a couple nights ago, they were so fresh the female was still in the humid hide and the eggs were very soft and plyable to the touch. I was just tell Marcia about it on the phone yesterday morning. The female looked for the eggs for a couple minutes but was then fine. I then filled the food dish with dusted mealworms and she started eating.

 

[fallen_angel]

This female in particular doesnt eat right away, she digs and digs, even for hours afterwards! Both times she has laid, I found her eggs and took them from her right away, and she seemed pretty upset... I know they are just geckos and don't have feelings like humans, but I think they still know when someone's taken their eggs

When I was changing the water dish and getting all of the moss (that she had kicked everywhere) out of the food dish, she was in her hide, but then she saw me and came out and still seemed to be angry with "the hands that took the eggs" lol

I wish I could show her her own hatchlings so she would know that we take care of them and they are okay..but I obviously can't because I'm afraid she might mistake them for food.

 

[Vamp523]

I did that once, my leo just simply run down and lay down on the heating pad.

 

[david13]

does she nip at you or anything or just look..
or wave her tail.

 

[fallen_angel]

No, she doesn't nip at me, she just looks at me and tries to get through the glass, lol..but she doesn't stay "angry" forever, she is just fine today

 

[shadowx362]

I think two of my females do that. You take the eggs away and they keep coming back to the nest box and keep trying to cover the imaginary eggs. wired but they do that for a couple of hours.

 

[fallen_angel]

Glad I'm not the only one

 

[slytle90]

This female in particular doesnt eat right away, she digs and digs, even for hours afterwards! Both times she has laid, I found her eggs and took them from her right away, and she seemed pretty upset... I know they are just geckos and don't have feelings like humans, but I think they still know when someone's taken their eggs

When I was changing the water dish and getting all of the moss (that she had kicked everywhere) out of the food dish, she was in her hide, but then she saw me and came out and still seemed to be angry with "the hands that took the eggs" lol

I wish I could show her her own hatchlings so she would know that we take care of them and they are okay..but I obviously can't because I'm afraid she might mistake them for food.

i feel the same way about animals...and i swear they have feelings lol. Yea my favorite female laid two eggs last week and i picked her up a few days ago to get her outa the tank cause I was cleaning it and she bit me...she has never done that ever.

 

[fallen_angel]

Yeah I think they take the "egg-stealing" personally!! I'm sure we would too, if we were them though

 

[leatherneck]

Yeah, a few of my females are like that. They seem to get over it after a couple of days though........

 

[MissD]

Thats funny that you posted that because my female does the same thing. Her first clutch was done all wrong (she plopped them on the tank floor instead of her breeding box and left them). The past two clutches she digs for hours and then lays them and stays there. When she finally moves away and I let the eggs firm up, I take the babes out. When she notices what I've done she'll run to the side of the tank and stare me down. She "stays mad" or becomes territorial for a few hours then gets over it. Mammas got a mean streak.

 

[Stitchex]

I just got an egg last night, and I found the egg buried right where she was curled around it! I mean, she buried it in a mound, and I found her curled around the mound that was the egg. She didn't try to bite me or anything, but she seemed pretty put out after it was gone...

 

[fallen_angel]

Thats funny that you posted that because my female does the same thing. Her first clutch was done all wrong (she plopped them on the tank floor instead of her breeding box and left them). The past two clutches she digs for hours and then lays them and stays there. When she finally moves away and I let the eggs firm up, I take the babes out. When she notices what I've done she'll run to the side of the tank and stare me down. She "stays mad" or becomes territorial for a few hours then gets over it. Mammas got a mean streak.

LOL that sounds exactly like our girl!!

I just got an egg last night, and I found the egg buried right where she was curled around it! I mean, she buried it in a mound, and I found her curled around the mound that was the egg. She didn't try to bite me or anything, but she seemed pretty put out after it was gone...

I too have found a female laying on top of her eggs