When u get too many eggs

[LeopardLunatic]

wat do you guys do if you only wanna incubate a couple eggs but get a bunch? Do you (and i feel rotten for saying this) just throw the ones you dont wanna incubate out? All thoughts are appreciated.

 

[PrototypeGeckos]

I wouldn't throw them out, incubate them all, it doesn't take much space at all to incubate a good amount of eggs, and chances are alot of them will be bad, so incubate them all and keep the babies which hatch from the good eggs. Otherwise, you throw out some eggs and incubate a few, and then you take the chance of throwing away good eggs and incubating mostly bad eggs.

 

[LeopardLunatic]

well what im worried about is having more babies than i can sell.

 

[dragonflyreptiles]

well, you may have some infertile eggs too, so Id incubate them all too. But you can also cool the female to stop her from producing after you have the number of eggs you want and not put her back with the male for more breeding.

 

[Baysidegeckos]

Ditto

 

[ByRandom]

Or.. if you do decide to throw the eggs out, be sure to freeze them (the eggs) to ensure that nothing is growing in there...

 

[Alusdra]

I think it is responsible to only keep the number of eggs you think you can handle as babies. Freezing sounds like a good way to sterilize, but I don't really know what's the best method.

 

[supperl]

In my opinion, I think it would be irresponsible to incubate all eggs when you know you want have the place to hold all and you know that you can´t sell them. Incubate only the # of eggs you can handly the hatchlings from I would say.

 

[seraphim21]

In my opinion, I think it would be irresponsible to incubate all eggs when you know you want have the place to hold all and you know that you can´t sell them. Incubate only the # of eggs you can handly the hatchlings from I would say.

Good statement, I second that!! :main_yes:

 

[Select Gex]

In my opinion, I think it would be irresponsible to incubate all eggs when you know you want have the place to hold all and you know that you can´t sell them. Incubate only the # of eggs you can handly the hatchlings from I would say.

I completely agree with this as well.

 

[eyelids]

To be honest, I think it's irresponsible to breed your geckos if you're not able to house and care for whatever amount of babies you may hatch... I'm not trying to be mean; its just that breeding puts a lot of stress on them and may as well be avoided if you're not in it for the "long haul"...

 

[Golden Gate Geckos]

To be honest, I think it's irresponsible to breed your geckos if you're not able to house and care for whatever amount of babies you may hatch... I'm not trying to be mean; its just that breeding puts a lot of stress on them and may as well be avoided if you're not in it for the "long haul"...

I agree.

 

[Ccrashca069]

Before I made a descion to start moving forward on breeding, I asked alot of questions and found places that would sell any leopards I gave them. I am now working on my 1st racks I will be using to house my hatchlings. So I guess what I am saying in my rambling is I would incubate all the eggs you get. You can always run ads in your local paper or Craigslist too get rid of any extra's.

 

[TWC]

if you have to, i would use adoption as a last resort if you couldnt sell them and you had too many.

 

[Kimjorg]

To be honest, I think it's irresponsible to breed your geckos if you're not able to house and care for whatever amount of babies you may hatch... I'm not trying to be mean; its just that breeding puts a lot of stress on them and may as well be avoided if you're not in it for the "long haul"...

I couldn't have said it better myself

 

[PacHerp]

To be honest, I think it's irresponsible to breed your geckos if you're not able to house and care for whatever amount of babies you may hatch... I'm not trying to be mean; its just that breeding puts a lot of stress on them and may as well be avoided if you're not in it for the "long haul"...

I agree.

This is one of the first things you need to think about when you consider breeding your geckos. I could not have said it any better than that.

 

[SteveB]

To be honest, I think it's irresponsible to breed your geckos if you're not able to house and care for whatever amount of babies you may hatch... I'm not trying to be mean; its just that breeding puts a lot of stress on them and may as well be avoided if you're not in it for the "long haul"...

Just because this is worth repeating again, here it is.

To be honest, I think it's irresponsible to breed your geckos if you're not able to house and care for whatever amount of babies you may hatch... I'm not trying to be mean; its just that breeding puts a lot of stress on them and may as well be avoided if you're not in it for the "long haul"...

:main_thumbsup:

 

[LeopardLunatic]

ok its been a long time since if read this thread (its been a long time since ive been on period) but Housing isnt an issue its just i dont wanna get completely swamped my first season(whenever that is) i have 4 females and plans for all of them. My original plan was to breed each of them and keep the best hatchling from each female and sell the rest to fund further projects but im afraid the morphs im working with wont do well on the market i do admit the title of this thread wasnt phrased right i guess what i should have said will i be able to sell hatchlings of slightly lower end morphs to fund further projects? Not that im looking to make a quik buck rather i wish to broaden my horizons if u will but to do that i kinda need money since many of u know Leos are becoming a lil pricey especially to work with some of the amazing new morphs thats all im saying i hope this doesnt come off the wrong way with anyone if u have any questions about anything ive said dont hesitate to ask.

 

[david13]

you don't have to breed all 4 females. just breed 1.

 

[LeopardLunatic]

well i know that there is that option too but my plan was to get a bit of variety