For unfertilized lizard eggs, also known as "blanks," you should discard them by freezing first to prevent odor, then trashing, composting, or feeding them to other reptiles like monitors, while ensuring the mother lizard gets extra calcium and nutrients to recover. Do not incubate them, as they will never hatch and can cause mold.
If the female lays eggs and has not been around a male , they are not fertilized. You can toss them. Your bearded dragon does not bond or need to eat the eggs. Just make sure she gets plenty of replenishment of her calcium and vitamins and will need hydration. That is all you need to do. Sweet baby should be just fine.
Reptile eggs are soft, unlike bird eggs. If you can place them back in the ground where you found them, then do so, but try not to rotate them. If you cannot put them back in the ground, place them in a container in the same orientation that you found them.
Treatment. Even if you don't have a male bearded dragon around, females will regularly lay clutches of infertile eggs — just like chickens! The first time your female bearded dragon lays a clutch can be stressful, since you won't be quite sure what she's up to.
Reptile eggs should be measured (length and width, in millimeters), then injected. preserved by covering the flesh side with cloth or absorbent paper, rolling loosely and immersing in fixative, or by rubbing with borax or arsenical soap, rolling and drying.
Steps
A general rule, unwashed eggs will last around two weeks unrefrigerated and about three months or more in your refrigerator.
Like the western fence lizards, side-blotched lizards start breeding in mid to late March, lay eggs a few weeks later, and these eggs hatch after 1.5–2 months. The babies are extra small with a SVL of 0.8 to 1 inch.
The lizards are all female and parthenogenetic, meaning their eggs develop into embryos without fertilization. But before the eggs form, Baumann's team discovered, the females' cells gain twice the usual number of chromosomes during meiosis.
Refrigerators and/or freezers are insulated very well, usually have shelves, and can make excellent incubators.
Be patient: Lizard eggs take time to hatch. Be patient and allow the natural process to unfold. Avoid moving or touching the eggs, as this can cause harm to the developing embryos.
A bearded dragon female normally will lay two infertile clutches a year, whereas others can lay eggs randomly. Even if they have not been with a male.
Did you know you can determine if an egg is fertile or not by looking at the germ spot? The germ spot is the white spot on the yolk. The non-fertile germ spot contains only the female's cells and looks like a solid white spot. In a fertile egg, the germ spot contains both the female and male cells.
Being a diurnal species, bearded dragons need a day and night cycle. According to data on sunrise and sunset times in bearded dragons' natural habitat in Australia, a cycle of 14 hours/day during summer and 10 hours/day during winter (with gradual adjustments in-between) is appropriate.
Lizard eggs take around 40 to 60 days to hatch and at least a year to mature and mate.
As true parthenotes, Darevskia do not require stimulation from sperm to reproduce. The best-known and perhaps most evolutionarily derived example of parthenogenesis in reptiles occurs within the Teiid genus of whiptail lizards known as Aspidoscelis.
A clutch of four to eight eggs may be considered typical, but large lizards such as the iguanas may lay 50 or more eggs at one time. Lizard eggs are usually leathery-shelled and porous; they can expand by the absorption of moisture as the embryos grow.
Bearded Dragon Egg Incubation and Care
If they are not fertile, they will never hatch and can be disposed of at any point.
Key symptoms of egg binding to watch for are lethargy, straining, and loss of appetite. To help an egg-bound hen, contact a veterinarian or administer gentle treatments like warm baths and lubrication.
Embryos have survived at temperatures below 90°F for up to 18 hours. You should continue to incubate the eggs after the outage; then candle them 4 to 6 days later to check for further development or signs of life. If, after 6 days, you do not see life or development in any of the eggs, then terminate incubation.
If fertile eggs reach temperatures above 72°F, embryos will begin to develop abnormally, weaken, and die. Embryos stored below 46°F also have high embryo mortality.