Breeding Iguanas

Breeding iguanas can be a really fruitful experience for any iguana owner. During the breeding season, a breeder must place males and females together in the same area to allow for reproduction to occur naturally and smoothly. It is advisable to breed a single male with a single female. Females are larger than males and if there are more females and only a single male then the male may end up being killed during the mating procedure. Grouping therefore should be determined by size and ratio.

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Hatching Eggs

There is only two ways you can hatch chicken eggs and that is the natural way, under a broody hen and the artificial way, in an incubator. The natural way is hard to maintain mainly because you will have to have a broody hen who is laying the eggs you want to hatch and of course broody hens can be temperamental and if that happens then natural hatching will not take place. Hatching in an incubator is far more successful but not all of your eggs will hatch and you will have about a 75% success rate. There is no way initially of telling whether you have fertile eggs and it is only after a period of one week when you are able to candle them that you will be able to see if they are going to continue.

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What Are the Three Strains of Albino Leopard Gecko?

One of the varieties of the leopard gecko ancestry is the Albino leopard gecko. Every kind of these species has its own genetics producing different behaviors.

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