First off what happens?
When you kill a female Dragon and a egg drops, you should immediately stash it. Having it in equip can be dangerous. The Egg no longer assigns to your character but will assign to a random character with no Pet. If all your characters have pets it will replace one.
Many things can hurt, or help your Egg. Certain eggs are sensitive to certain environments.
Reaper Egg&Slicer=
Benefit: Tainted Plains, Badlands, Tainted Forest,
Damage: Kokomo
Blue Dragon & Earth=
Benefit: Valley Plains, Kokomo,
Damage: Tainted Forest
Crimson Dragon=
Benefit: Volcano, Pride, Magma Caverns,Lava,Kragmor
Damage: Ice, Ice Grotto, Ravenshold, Castle
Zombie Egg=
Benefit=none
Damage=none
Water Dragon=
Benefit= Sun Temple, ocean, serpents pass, last cave
Damage=Any map with no water
Frost Egg=
Benefit=Ice, Ice Cave
Damage=Lava, Pride, Flame Grotto, Volcano
Angel Dragon=
Benefit=Sun Temple
Damage= Tainted Forest, Tainted Plains, Shreiking Hill, Dragon Tunnel
Phazon Egg=
Benefit=Battle, Paradise,Forest
Damage=None
---Prey---
Certain Prey can damage eggs if you take damage from them, getting wounded can severely
damage or kill your egg.
Animals To Avoid=
Tainted Animals
Snakes
Foxes
Kittens
Birds
--Items--
Some items can hurt or help promote your eggs growth. This can also vary between dragon species.
Bubbles:
Bubbles are neutral, they have no effect on eggs at all.
Swords:
Swords like Keyblade can promote while swords such as Discord Blade, may damage. Earthbound sword is beneficial to Earth Dragons.
ZT Helmets:
All ZT helms are beneficial to dragons. Tainted ZT is good for Zombie, Slicer, Lucifer, or Reaper. Earthbound is good for Earth Dragons. AquaBound ZT is good for Water, or Blue Dragon. Frost ZT is good for
Frost Dragons.
PawFires:
Green paw fires are good for Earth Dragons
Purple are good for Purple Dragons
Blue pawfires are good for all dragons, and if you have the complete set it can be very beneficial
Red pawfires are good for crimson or reaper dragons
Electric fires are good for Lucifer dragons
Abstract paws are good for all
Cheekfins:
All Cheekfins benefit Dragons
Necklaces:
Tainted Necklaces will either
1. Kill your Egg
2. Change it into a zombie dragon
Masks:
Masks do not benefit or hurt eggs
Crows:
Crow= Beneficial to all
Black Crow= Bad for all except Reaper and Slicer
Snow Tail: Beneficial only to Frost may damage crimson
Claws=Neutral
Earrings:
Earrings are positive for all species
Green Shard(bubble), Bubble Shard, Bubble Shard 2:
Beneficial to Purple and Phazon
NoseRing:
Neutral
Tail Yellow, Tailfire Blue, Tailfire:
Tail Yellow is toxic to earth, crimson, and blue. Tailfire blue is beneficial to all especially Phazon dragons.
Tailfires only benefit crimson dragons.
Saberteeth:
Sabers benefit Zombie dragons, may be harmful to water dragons.
Fangs= Neutral
Roses= Roses are all beneficial no damage
Glasses:
20% Cooler shades benefit only Earth.
Belts=neutral
Collars= Very harmful to all species
Candycanes=neutral
Dogtags.Sticks,=neutral
Bracelets= Beneficial for all species
Purple Tail= Beneficial for All dragons
Horns:
All beneficial
----------------Notes------------------
You should mark the date you get your egg this may help determine if it is dead or alive.
The egg has 2 weeks and 3 days max. If it hasn't hatched by then it died.