Elective spaying is not recommended for beardies, they do not tolerate general anesthesia very well, worse than most lizards.
Beardies are not social animals to each other in the wild, they NEVER choose to remain with others of their kinds and the waving was never a greeting to one another, but an appeasement to each other. They are territorial, both males and females. The males are much more so than the females. Some females can be together if you have two passive ones or a passive and an alpha that is not intimidating (but that is rare) Two alphas are disaster and a male/female pairing will have the male trying to breed often, but the female usually only allowing breeding once a season. They may breed more, but not with the female being very receptive and that alone will stress her. My fav dragon's father lost his leg to the her mother, when he did not understand her saying "no I have a headache"
SO it can be risky to the male also.
Females can develop and lay eggs if they mate, see a male or not. There is no way to tell, but I will promise you, if they are over 2 years and two females together, usually the females will mock mate each other at least once in the season and that always causes a virgin female to cycle and produce infertile eggs. infertile eggs are harder for them to lay than fertile ones. So, if you want to lessen the risk of egg development in a female, only house alone.
MOST beardies will lay fine if they have a proper egg laying area and you watch for the digging signs and they bounce back fine. We have had many female dragons and never had one egg bound yet or ovary problems. We did have one 5 month old female have a prolapse that had to have surgery, due to a gram neg bacteria.
