To Old For Breeding?

[tortoiseman777]

is 20 years too old for a male russian to be breeding?

 

[egyptiandan]

No, thats not to old for breeding at all.

Danny

 

[Yvonne G]

He's in the prime of his life. I don't know about the fertility of male tortoises, but female tortoises can lay viable eggs clear up to the day she dies...even if that's 100 years old.

 

[tortoiseman777]

thanks guys

 

[dmmj]

At 20 he is prob just getting started, dont put him out to pasture just yet.

 

[-ryan-]

Yeah, their life spans are similar to humans, so if they develop at a normal rate, they can reproduce early, but at 20 he is an eligible bachelor with decades of breeding to go. I don't know how old my two main breeding females are, but I am fairly certain that one is at least in her 20's, and the other probably in her teens. The male is 4, and he is breeding, but I expect him to become more fertile over the coming years.