Hey guys, Heather here from Tye-Dyed Iguana and today we're gonna check out
something kind of cool. You might remember that a few months ago we did a
video on bearded dragon brumation, and kind of explained what happens during
the process, and how what some bearded dragons go through during it, and now
that it is deep into winter, we have one of our females has gone into deep
brumation. She was the star of our last video on it, but she was still active in
everything, but now she's in deep brumation so we're gonna check out what
that looks like. Okay so, you see her cage but you don't see the beardie inside. So
like I said in that previous video, she likes to sleep under her log during
brumation. You can see she's barely got her eyes open her metabolism has slowed
way down. We will take a look at her real quick. So we're not gonna disturb her too
much, we're just gonna take a quick peek. It's always good to kind of check on
them now again to make sure they're doing okay while they're brumating, so
let's take a quick peek. There she is.
Okay so we have a few crickets in there for her to eat if she wants.
So this is what she looks like. You can see she's very sleepy, very tired, she
didn't even move, but yeah she will stay under that log and sleep like all day
long and all winter long. I think maybe once a week she comes out and basks for
a little bit, and but then she goes right back to sleep so. Get those crickets away
from her. But she is very sleepy.
Now during this time we give her just a few crickets in the cage in case she
wants to eat, she will eat a cricket every now and then, we make sure that and
we make sure that she has greens too, because that way the crickets will eat
that instead of picking on her, when we do keep a few in there over night for
her if she wants some. But yeah, during this time she won't poop for probably
weeks, like she only poops every few weeks or so because her metabolism has
slowed down so much. So, if your beardy goes through the brumation too you
might not see them poop for a long time, but don't be worried they will be okay.
Now she's, she woke up just a little bit but she'll be okay. But yeah, this is kind of
what it looks like your beardie's gonna be very lethargic, very sleepy, and it's
nothing to worry about once again. So now that it's the middle of winter you can
really get a good example of what brumating beardie looks like. I know when we
first did the video she was like in the pre-stages of it, so now she is very
sleepy, so we will leave her alone for today. And once again all bearded dragons
are different, as you can see all our other females are out and about. This one
is sleepy because she just recovered from laying eggs and she is, man she is
passed out. So yeah, you can see most of our females are awake and their
metabolisms are working just fine as you can see, F4 has left us a big present, and
F1 she's doing great, she just laid eggs so she is not in brumation at all,
and she is very interested in what's going on. But yeah, she's doing really
good after laying her eggs, so. Yep, just one out of six bearded dragons is going
through brumation right now. I hope you enjoyed that little look what
it really looks like, and we'll see you all later.