We'll need someone with more breeding experience than I to explain it, but I've always thought the ovum didn't get fertilized until right before the calcium shell was deposited on it, which would be right before laying. ??????? So the female doesn't carry fertilized ovum through brumation, she just hangs onto the sperm until she is ready to lay the eggs, then the eggs are fertilized. At least, that's what I've always thought.
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Yvonne
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