I know that gravid female torts can become egg bound for various reasons. If I never breed my female Hermann's tort, will she still make infertile eggs and risk getting egg bound?
Questions about egg-binding
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As a whole tortoises rarely have problems with becoming egg bound. When it does take place it is more often than not with females that have been bred and are kept in conditions that are less than ideal for them to nest and deposit the eggs. Females that have never been bred can also produce eggs. Of course they will obviously be infertile. Tortoises carrying infertile eggs do sometime nest them but they will quite often randomly "discard" them on the ground surface. While females that have been bred do (rarely) become egg bound, females that have never been bred seem to have even less of a chance of becoming egg bound.
An egg bound female is very rare occurrence under normal circumstances.
An egg bound female is very rare occurrence under normal circumstances.
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