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They (females) will live up to 10 years if taken care of properly.
I was always worried about my veiled when she was gravid, because she was SOOO fat and I thought she would never lay. What exactly are you worried about and why is she not in good shape? If it's just because she is super-fat with eggs and you 'think' she should be laying, then just let her do it on her own terms...sometimes they just take a while.
Gee...we must have been posting at the same time jannb!
A friend of mine, Shwa, his female veiled lived to 13, that's the longest I have heard of.
I find it hard to believe that someone raised chams to be 6 years of age and they never laid a clutch???? Veileds lay regardless of mating or not, do you know if they manipulated the environment in some way as to prevent producing eggs? I would imagine they kept the females in 'drought' type conditions to pull that off.
Lizzy, my female wouldn't eat for up to two weeks sometimes when she was about to lay eggs. In all that time she ate a few leaves and maybe one or two roaches. It's disconcerting, but it's natural (I think).
What I would do is fill up a garbage can about 1/4 way with moist sand, and pack it down so it's firm. Add a branch and maybe a plant, and set up a basking light (clamp lamp) for heat. She should lay within a few days.