As I said I'm 6 to 8 years away from breeding so it's not as issue personally but put simply keep females away from males has to be the simplest way forward. I know absolutely nothing about sterilising tortoises but I assume it could be done quite easily.

if a tort repro system is anything like other reps, then its far from simple. eggs develop from follicles in females and toaccess them a vets would have to go through the shell, or use key hole surgery. my vets is a specialist and wouldnt tackle that unless it was in the animals best interest. and a male will be the same , i imagine.

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By choice I wouldn't have got a male but he is here and I love him to bits - he loves being with the girls and they stay together most of the time - I would hate to separate him - sterilising seems a bit drastic as does destroying fertile eggs so in the words of Tony Soprano " what are you gonna do ?"

err - tortoise condoms??

See you on dragons den !!!

in that situation anne i agree 100% with not incubating the eggs. many people have torts but dont have the time/patience/ money to incubate, feed and raise hatchlings. and leos can be pretty hefty breeders! my biggest lays 12 eggs in a clutch, 3 times a year. at least. if they were all incubated, thats maybe 25-30 hatcling torts. where the heck would i put them!

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the army used to give soldiers bromide to keep 'urges' at bay .......... not sure if it would work with torts though

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Dont get me wrong Ali - If I had the capability and experience then maybe yes but like you said that is a lot of eggs and do people really know what they are getting when they buy a Leopard - I certainly didn't - they are hard work and I wouldn't like to say how much time I spend a day just seeing to them !

Would it be such a bad thing not to incubate the eggs?

Sounds like a plan - but I think I will stick to tapping him on the head - seems to work at the moment !!!!

in my opinion if you decided to incubate the eggs but then couldn't, for what ever reason, not give the give the proper care for the hatchlings then I don't think it is a bad thing not to incubate

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