Breeding Tortoises
Should you Breed Tortoises?
Firstly it is important you decide why you want to breed your tortoise? What do you want to do with any subsequent offspring? Importantly, how will you care for the extra little baby tortoises? There may be quite a few if you have a successful breeding! There is a whole chapter on breeding tortoises in the e-Book which you can download. It is a very involved and potentially expensive business and may be a lot more work and investment than you are willing or able to enter into. There is some thought that money can be made from breeding tortoises due to their precarious position in numbers in the wild. However, legally you are not allowed to sell hatchlings for some species until they are art least 4” long. This may take three or four years! I will add a few more articles here in future covering how to breed tortoises but I urge you to think carefully before you embark on this.
