The "story" about a female veiled becoming eggbound if not mated/bred soon enough is just that. I have veiled females right now that are 4 years old that have never been bred, never produced eggs and (obviously) have not died eggbound. I have had quite a few over the years that have not been bred and laid several clutches of (infertile, of course) eggs that have not died eggbound. I have learned to control their diet and temperatures so that they don't produce eggs now unless I "allow" them too.



Egg binding is usually the result of poor husbandry (incorrect temperatures, incorrect supplementation, using insects that are not gutloaded properly, etc.), overfeeding so that they produce extra large clutches, or from physical problems such as eggs that are misformed or fused, reproductive tract deformities, or eggs that have become too large to lay from disturbing the female when she is digging or failure to provide her with a suitable place to lay the eggs.



You said..."She is she is 7-8mths old now"...I never breed my females until they are over 1 year of age or full grown because I don't like to put demands on their system to produce fertile eggs until they have stopped making their own bones.



Do you have a suitable place in her cage now for her to dig? I always keep an egglaying site in the cages of all egglaying females once they are a few months old.b



The control of her diet involves not overfeeding her but not starving her. Its a little like a cheetah or lion producing a large litter in years where there is lots of food, etc. compared to a lion or cheetah that produces few or no babies in the lean/famine years.



I keep the females a little cooler than the males (just a couple of degrees) because it slows their rate of digestion down enough that they don't need quite so much to eat. It takes practice to get it right...so be careful until you figure it out.



Hope this helps!

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