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Hi,
My female sulcata successfully laid earlier this year (March) in her nesting box that I have set up for her.
She seems to have decided it is time to lay again. She has started two nests outside - they are more like open cast mining, rather than nesting. The problem I have is that here in the UK the weather is really cold. She seems to keep going back to the same two 'nests', digs a while, and it's as though she gets too cold and runs out of energy and just seems to go to sleep.
I have tried placing a heat lamp over her, but when she has decided she has had enough, that's it, she just gives up.
I have tried her in the hot nesting box, but she just isn't interested in it for some reason.
Any suggestions as to what I can do, as I don't want her to become egg bound.
Thanks
Stuart
My female sulcata successfully laid earlier this year (March) in her nesting box that I have set up for her.
She seems to have decided it is time to lay again. She has started two nests outside - they are more like open cast mining, rather than nesting. The problem I have is that here in the UK the weather is really cold. She seems to keep going back to the same two 'nests', digs a while, and it's as though she gets too cold and runs out of energy and just seems to go to sleep.
I have tried placing a heat lamp over her, but when she has decided she has had enough, that's it, she just gives up.
I have tried her in the hot nesting box, but she just isn't interested in it for some reason.
Any suggestions as to what I can do, as I don't want her to become egg bound.
Thanks
Stuart