Does your bearded dragon have intestinal parasites?
Does your bearded dragon have diarrhea?
Does your bearded dragon receives recommended level of calcium and vitamin D3 supplement and appropriate UVB lighting?
Being infected with an abundance of parasites is a common reason why your pet bearded dragon will strain and prolapse its cloaca. You should have a fecal sample checked by your exotics vet to rule out having too many parasites. If the fecal test is positive, deworming may be necessary to lessen or clear the parasitic infection and help prevent further prolapses from occurring.
If your bearded dragon is straining because they have diarrhea from eating watery foods or for another reason he could prolapse. Offering foods that are more nutrient and fiber-dense should help prevent prolapses if this is the cause.
More often than not a lack of calcium in your bearded dragon's bones causes their cloaca to prolapse. Not having enough calcium can be due to a diet low in nutrition or from not having enough UVB rays in their habitat. Since calcium makes bones strong, bones become soft and pliable when there isn't enough calcium in them so if the pelvis is soft enough, a bearded dragon will prolapse. It is important to gut load crickets, dust the crickets with a calcium and vitamin D3 supplement if there isn't any in the gut load, and provide appropriate UVB lighting for your pet bearded dragon.
If your female bearded dragon has recently laid eggs, is in the process of laying eggs, or is trying to lay eggs she could be straining to pass the eggs and in turn prolapse. Offering appropriate calcium in the diet and UVB lighting in the enclosure will help her body have normal contractions. Hormone supplements may lessen the frequency of egg production but otherwise, there may not be much you can do to make your female beardie stop laying eggs.
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Hi! I’m Sreten Filipović. I graduated from the Faculty of Agriculture at the University of Belgrade, with a master's degree in Environmental Protection in Agricultural Systems. I’ve worked as a researcher at Finland's Natural Resources Institute (LUKE) on a project aimed at adapting south-western Finland to drought episodes. I founded a consulting agency in the field of environment and agriculture to help farmers who want to implement the principles of sustainability on their farms. I’m also a founding member of the nonprofit organization Ecogenesis from Belgrade whose main goal is non-formal education on the environment and ecology. In my spare time, I like to write blog posts about sustainability, the environment, animal farming, horticulture, and plant protection. I’ve also published several science-fiction short stories.
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