Why I Breed Iguanas - Putting healthy iguanas of opposite sexes together is all that is needed. Since my guys are free roamers, nature takes its course. After the eggs are laid, you decide to incubate or not. Ultimately what decided it for me was that by the time the egg is laid it is two months old and it takes slightly longer than that to hatch. I feel that not incubating them is wrong.
Captive breeding gives iguanas with good personalities a chance to reproduce.
Those who have serious health problems are still able to produce healthy offspring. While the parents may not live full lives, their babies are able to do just that. The male is usually smaller than the females. If the female is a lot bigger than the male, she can seriously injure or kill the male. This year I put Lucy a rather large female with Herman after she finished laying her eggs.