Yeah.

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ah so i did read it the right way then? was beginning to think i'd plucked it outta thin air lol

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when you said 'why not just don't incubate them' I agreed and said 'Yeah....freeze them'

In the dots I should have written 'this means' or something.

Sorry about the misunderstanding.

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OK so they're mating, not actually breeding, or even laying eggs yet. I thought that was probably what you meant!

If she lays eggs your choices are pretty obvious, you either incubate them or destroy them, depending on whether you want to breed baby YBS or not.

A third option would be to pass the eggs on to someone who wants to incubate them, but the chances of them being viable after being handled and transported may be slim.

If you don't want them to mate then your only option is to separate them, but that might not stop the female laying eggs. Female turts, just like chickens, can still lay eggs without having mated, but the eggs will obviously be infertile so in this case you needn't worry about them hatching, just remove them and throw them away.

Yeah, you were right. It might only apply to lizards though because I heard to over on the lizard section.

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It's not a term I am familiar with but have heard of people freezing fish etc to kill them so assumed it referred to temps too.

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Sue

wizzasmum@aol.com

I had two GALS from Graham for my son (they're doing great by the way ) and one of the things we read when we researched them was to freeze the eggs if you didn't want them to hatch and I thought it meant you had to put them in the freezer too

Luckily they're not big enough to lay eggs yet so haven't been doing it. OMG how stupid am I

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