Glossary · 🥚 Breeding

Slug

Also called: Infertile egg

A slug is an infertile egg — often yellowish, undersized or misshapen — which females can lay with no male present; normal and no cause for alarm on its own.

Finding slugs just means your female ovulated and laid without fertilisation. What matters is that she passes them cleanly; a female who can't is egg-bound (dystocia) and needs a vet.

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