My boyfriends mum & dad have a tortoise called Toby, and have had him for about 15 years and he lives in the garden quite happily but the other day, Toby laid an egg!
We don't know too much about this and just wondered if anyone had any info?? Unfortunately, after 'he' had laid the egg in a hole 'he' had dug, Toby squashed the egg.
Not sure what breed Toby is but 'he's' definately not a Herman Tortoise, 'his' shell is quite flat and 'he's' about 30cm long.
Any idea why 'he' had laid an egg and why now after 15 years of not doing it??
Any help is appreciated.......
2007-06-06 22:23:34 · 5 answers · asked by Anonymous in Pets ➔ Reptiles
Hi, could there be any chance of toby actually being a girl? Tortoises do usually lay eggs later on in life and they do bury them, have you checked around the garden incase the tort has burried any more anywhere? A good website to try is shelled warriors (which leads to other tortoise links), you should be able to match toby to another photo of a tortoise to find out the breed.
2007-06-07 09:59:23 · answer #1 · answered by jo 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
a million. single eggs laid outdoors of a nest are not often fertile. Turtles in many circumstances lay what are fairly 'practice eggs'. 2. The embryo of a turtle is fairly gently related, and moving the egg can detach it, rendering the egg infertile. If the egg has been moved lots, it fairly is in all probability now no longer plausible. 3. you additionally could make a good incubator via purely putting some damp sand in a bucket, then placed the eggs interior the sand. do no longer turn the eggs (some human beings mark the proper with a small pencil mark), and be gentle. warmth the entire ingredient to approximately 80-80 5. 4. be advantageous to offer the tortoise with a nesting website if it does no longer have already got one. the positioning under has different strategies you may attempt.
2016-11-07 20:04:10 · answer #2 · answered by serpa 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
1. You REALLY need to figure out what kind of turtle or tortoise Toby is. You can try the World of Turtles gallery at http://www.austinsturtlepage.com for ideas with this.
2. Long-term captive turtles often lay infertile eggs for reasons we really do not understand. Once in a blue moon, the egg is fertile (they also can store sperm in their body for years), but usually not.
2007-06-07 06:29:16 · answer #3 · answered by Madkins007 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Yes I had a Tortoise called Tommy who laid an egg, so we had to rename her tomothea ours was an estimated 97 years old when she died. your friends mum and dad had better rename her as it's defiantly female,as for the egg , it wouldn't have been fertile unless she was introduced to a male.
2007-06-06 22:41:01 · answer #4 · answered by bty937915 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
no idea but that is madness!
2007-06-06 22:37:58 · answer #5 · answered by j~h~c~s 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋