I need some help

[perfectly_flawed]

For those more experienced in breeding than I am, I need a little help. I checked on Cayenne this morning while I was giving the little ones their morning crickets. She wasn't digging and she ate, so I didn't think she was ready to lay. I went and ran some errands and came home to find 15 eggs in her enclosure. 3 of them look perfect and were the normal texture. The other 12 are dimpled and a little dry but not hard. I was gone about 5 hours, so they could have been there quite a while.
They were away from her heat lamp on the cool end of the enclosure, behind her log. I've placed them all in the incubator in damp perlite. Is there anything else I can do to help them or is it simply a matter of wait and see what happens? I've never had one lay in her enclosure before
I put Cayenne in the lay bin but she had no interest in digging, so hopefully she's not holding more eggs. She's soaking in a tub now and I don't feel any more in her belly. She's also famished, already having put away over 50 large roaches!

[beardielover17]

i personally dont have experience with that but i remember when my vet had bred his dragons he had this happen to him and he said its basically a wait and see thing and to never give up on them...hopefully she finished up with all of her eggs...good luck crystal

[ladyknite]

Alot of factors there.  I'd make sure my perlite had good initial humidity.  I love the stuff, but it's a little hard to tell sometimes.  They may plump back up and be just fine in the next few days.  I'd watch them closely tho and observe their expansion and growth.  Anything wrong and I'd cull them.

I'd keep offering her a lay bin......at least for another 24 hrs.  But she's probably done.  Eating, basking.....all sounds good.

[Thewolfmantom]

It a wait and see. Good luck.

[reptilelvr]

wait and see. I wouldn't be surprised if she had more eggs though. That's a fairly small clutch, especially for a big girl like her.

[Alara]

The first time my Xena laid she didn't seem to know what to do either.  I had to start her tunnel for her for her to even lay her eggs and she laid 28 (apparently common for her parentage) and buried them but she later laid three more eggs in her enclosure the next morning.  She was perfectly fine.  I didn't have an incubator at the time so those eggs went in the freezer.

Another clutch she laid was dimpled and the eggs felt softer and I didn't think they'd survive and I didn't get to them until around the same amount of time as you.  I put 4 in my incubator, which was the only amount I could fit in at the time, and all 4 hatched.