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i am gettin a adult pair of yellow foots and a 4 inch red foot female does any one know how to tell the age of adults ? i have read on other site's you count the rings on the shell and that tells you how old they are is this true? i was told the yellow foots are around 6 to 8 years old but if i count the rings on shell i count close to 20 or more rings please help if you can
me and the kids would like to see if they breed for us and hatch a few babies out and can they be fertile and still produce viable eggs if there over 10 or 15 years old?
thanks in advance for your kind help and tid bits
as soon as i figure out how to post pixs of them i can post pix if needed

If you dont know exactly when they hatched, basically you can only tell if they are adult or not as far as I know. Very old animals will have smoother shells as their growth rings wear down with age. At six to 8 years old, they may not be old/large enough to breed. Its mainly a size thing and I would suspect yellowfoots being larger than redfoots would need to be bigger, maybe 10-12 inches long?? Regardless, you are aware these guys live for QUITE a long time?? Probably a good forty plus years or more LOL!! So, a 10 year old red or yellowfoot is probably JUST hitting their breeding stride. I hope someone with more experience on age/breeding replies. I currently have a 6 to 7 year old redfoot that is about 8 inches long and close to breeding size. I also have a cb08 yellowfoot and cb08 redfoot that are about four inches long. I love these mellow guys!!

Good luck and enjoy!!
KevinM