QUESTION ABOUT EGG BIND AND LAYING EGGS

Carol S

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I have two questions:

1. How common is egg binding?

2. How often does a female lay eggs if she has never been with a male?

Thank you in advance for this information. :)
 

Yvonne G

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Some females do, some don't. I have females not with males, of different species that have never nested or laid eggs and then there's the one or two that lay like clockwork, male or not.

I don't think being egg bound is very common. I've had tortoises for over 30 years and I don't remember ever having an egg bound female. I had a young (read small) YF tortoise that prolapsed due to having eggs that wouldn't come out, but she eventually was able to pass them on her own. Now birds are a different story. I've had quite a few of those.
 

Tom

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I have two questions:

1. How common is egg binding?

2. How often does a female lay eggs if she has never been with a male?

Thank you in advance for this information. :)

1. My experience is the same as Yvonne's. I've never had it happen. I know that it happens, but it is not common.
2. Also not common. I hear a story about it happening once in a while, but its not the norm.
 
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