You said..."I just wasn't prepared for this, i've never gone through her laying eggs without mating first"..there should be no difference in her laying infertile eggs as far as the process/care for her.

Although veiled females can lay clutches without having been mated, they can also go their whole lives without laying a single egg depending on the husbandry. I have had veileds live to be 7 years old without laying a single egg.

You said..."she had already developed metabolic bone disease, so her legs are pretty crooked, but nothing has broken for over a year now, and she doesn't fall off branches, etc. But last year after laying eggs, she was in real bad shape, real dehydrated, didn't want to eat, I was scared she would die"...hopefully she has recovered from this.

Don't let her see you watching her when she is digging. Water her and feed her only when she is in her branches.

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