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Beardy only layed one egg and seems lethargic?

Falcor90

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Hello Everyone,

New member here and would REALLY appreciate anyone's advice.

We have an approx. 1 year old beardy. Last week she started frantically digging/went off her food etc so we realised it was probably time for her to lay. She hasn't been in contact with any other beardies so we were sure this was just an infertile cycle. We prepared a laying box for her and left her to do her thing.

The next day we found her outside of the laying box with one egg beside her, she looked a bit uncomfortable so we attempted to move her back into the box but she really didn't want to be disturbed so we left her to it.

That was a 2 days ago and still no more eggs. We have searched through the sand and the rest of the viv, but that was it. One single egg. We have temporarily removed the laying box to give her back some normality and she is eating fine (absolutely ravenous in fact!).

The worries we have, however, are that she seems to be extremely lethargic and not particularly happy. We have given her a few baths but we have also noticed she hasn't done a poo since prior to the egg laying business. Her stomach seems completely normal size, in fact even prior to her laying her stomach didn't get noticeably bigger.

We are utterly confused and a little worried about her, does anyone have any ideas or advice?
 

Hdrydr31

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Sorry to hear that you are having some concerns with your girl.. If she has only laid 1 egg I would highly suggest having her seen by your exotic vet to check to make sure that she isn't egg bound or having issues with the eggs inside.. If any have broken inside her it can give her a bad infection.
 

Falcor90

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Thanks for your responses. We woke up this morning to find what was the biggest poo we have ever seen and she seems much much happier.

I assume that means we are in the clear?
 

PatsyB

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Thanks for your responses. We woke up this morning to find what was the biggest poo we have ever seen and she seems much much happier.

I assume that means we are in the clear?

They usually lay more than one egg. I would have her looked at to make sure she's not egg bound.
 

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