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03-28-2005, 10:40 PM
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Late Easter Eggs!!!!!!!!!!!
Zok my female iguana has been showing all the classic signs of being gravid for over a month now. All the typical, not eating, scratching and wanting out of the enclosure, and wandering into every nook and cranny she could find in the apartment, and being very outgoing in her behavior!! I have waited and waited and had about decided that she was going to absorb them (again) instead of laying.
FYI I have had many conversations with my vet regarding this and Zok just seems to like to be difficult. She is notorious for being slow to lay.
Well I was sitting here this evening practicing with my djembe (an African hand drum) and happened to look up at Zok on her basking shelf. Even though she has a perfectly good nesting box full of peatmoss to dig and lay in she has always chosen to lay on her shelf. And she is once again true to form. She was in the process of laying the eggs! I sat and watched her and she stopped. Curious as to whether the vibrations had anything to do with it I went back to playing and sure enough she had another contraction and here came another egg! Every time I went back to playing she laid another egg! 42 all in all! I wonder if I may have discovered something! I'll have to keep this in mind to try next year!
Now I have to get her back and fattened up again. They look like death warmed over when they have laid eggs!
But at least its over for this year!
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03-28-2005, 10:45 PM
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All hail Merlin, new African fertility god   !!!! I'll have to get one of those so Jedi will lay her eggs.
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03-29-2005, 03:48 AM
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All hail Merlin, new African fertility god.
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Just stay away from ME!
Glad to hear the egging went well.
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03-29-2005, 04:49 AM
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That's so cool about the drum... what a compliment! (I'm with Steph -- just don't come around me with your drum!)
Are the eggs fertile/viable?
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03-29-2005, 06:52 AM
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congrats on the igster eggs I know exactly what you mean about laying preference though I had built jade perfectly good laying boxes she always layed them on the basking shelf
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03-29-2005, 07:17 AM
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Thats just great Merlin, congrats on the eggs
Hmm, laying eggs to drums, must of relaxed her in some way 
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03-29-2005, 08:13 AM
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All hail Merlin, new African fertility god
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ROTFLMAO!
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Are the eggs fertile/viable?
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Nope no iguana breeding going on HERE! Zok has never even seen an adult male!
Besides if I was to even think about breeding igs Dominick would be chasing me across 3 states with a big stick! 
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03-29-2005, 10:07 AM
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And I would be right behind him Merlin...by the way...fertility God...stay away from me too LOL....but you can play for my "IG" girls LOL....Lyn
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03-29-2005, 12:56 PM
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Merlin,,,that is so cool with the drums,,,something else to look into during what little spare time I have,,,thanks !!!
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wow thats neat. something interesting to look in to I bet.
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