What is the difference between farm raised and captive raised? Seems same thing to me. Had not considered difference between captive and wild grown as I thought this is what you meant. However(once acclimated)I would think a wild tortoise of the same size would also be older and more mature as well as more ready to mate and lay.
No that's not the same. They are different in growing and eating in the first months/years.
Let's take those kinixys from Kenya as a example. In Kenia on the farms they live totally different as they do here in north Europe. They get different food, different light, temperatures, humidity. They're familiar with this conditions down there. On this conditions they start living, growing.
So now you export them to Europe and everything change.
Their body need much time before it acclimate on the new conditions.
They look good they eat well everything is ok... but their whole digestive system need time to change and isn't able to change the food energy in growing.
So that's the different. In this points WC animals are the same like FB animals.
For example one of my WC South Africa K. spekii females which I keep now for 4 years starts growing last year until the 3 years before she stays on the same size.
She needed this time for acclimating.
So everybody who says that an import animal is acclimate after an half to one year is wrong.