1. Breeding season: Artificial breeding of yellow-headed side-necked turtles can try to breed them, but overall, the success rate of breeding is not too high. The breeding season is usually in March or April, when the temperature is suitable.
2. Mating: In the breeding season, you can prepare a suitable container, and then put the male and female turtles of the right age into it. After a while, they might mate. In this process, attention should be paid to maintaining a suitable environment.
3. Spawning: After mating, the mother turtle will lay eggs for several months. Female turtles can lay eggs more than once a year, and the number of eggs laid each time will be between 10 and 15.
4. Artificial incubation: After the female turtles lay eggs, you can try to incubate them artificially, but the success rate of incubation is not very high. You can prepare a box, then spread sand in it, put eggs in it, and keep the temperature and humidity. Incubation will take a long time, at least a few days, and the process of incubation requires patience.
The yellow-headed side-neck turtle can only breed after sexual maturity. However, the age at which they enter sexual maturity is not certain, and there will be individual differences. Premature yellow-headed side-neck turtles may mature sexually at 3-4 years old, while late-maturing turtles may mature at 4-5 years old or even later. Generally speaking, the selection of slightly older yellow-headed side-neck turtles for reproduction, the success rate of reproduction will be relatively high. Therefore, in the specific breeding time, you can choose the age of turtles above 5 years old.
