Interesting day!

[keithsf]

My western hermann’s just laid an egg today. She turns 4 years old next month. She’d been listless and off her food over the past week and I had been worried she was sick. The only other tortoise she’s been in contact with since birth has been my (several months under 4 yrs old) male Burmese star when they (rarely) meet each other on nice days when I have them roaming out in the back yard... oops! I’d had assumed they were both too young still to have reached sexual maturity/fertility, though I’d seen him trying.
No plans to try to hatch it - I wonder if it’s even viable.

 

[wellington]

Females dont ever need to be with a Male to lay eggs.
Although you have a Male and have seen him try, it may or may not not be his.
You could try incubating it to see if its viable but chances are it's not. The majority of the time the females first egg laying one or two clutches are not any good. Lots of time they are soft and sunken.

 

[keithsf]

So they’re kind of like chickens? I’ve always only had male torts in the past...
Thanks!

 

[keithsf]