Sexing The Axies

[jay]

Hey Guys,

Just wondering if anyone can tell us the sex of our Axies?? Any help would be appreciated. Also, if there was any breeding, what colours we could expect??

 

[lana]

The top one looks just like mine (mines smaller) and i have been told his probably a male. not sure about your others, they are all really cute.

 

[mary]

we have a pink boy around the size of your top one- lets just say he has much bigger "lump" under his tail indicating his manhood- interested in what others think!

 

[kapo]

Could you give us approximate age (if known) and size of your axies, please? Just that the top one looks young, but I'm basing it on the darkish colouring under its skin, which usually shows when they are a few months old, and less than a year. When they get older, white ones especially, the skin thickens and body loses its transparency so you don't see it. If that's the case, it may be hard to sex till it's 8months+ (if it's a male)

As for the others, bit hard to see their cloaca regions (bit behind the rear legs). Love the colour of your light brown wildtype by the way.

If they bred, depending on which ones bred you could get a combination of wildtype, golden albino and/or leucistic (white/pinkish one with dark eyes.

(Message edited by kapo on December 17, 2006)

 

[jay]

Golden (Loki) is about 6-7 months and 15cm long. Wildtype (Willow) is 6-7 months and 17cm long.
Melanoid? (Ezekiel) is about 20-22cm long, not sure on age.
Leucistic (Wolfgang) is about 25cm long, again not sure on age.

 

[kapo]

Ezekiel looks like our dark wildtypes. We don't have light coloured wildtypes like Willow (very nice), so goldens and light coloured wildtypes are unusual. Our wildtypes range from Ezekiel's colouring to very dark with grey underneath.

Loki an Willow may be a bit young to sex, tho if one starts looking rather plump roundish (then it may be a girl). If they're male, they have a rather prominent swollen looking cloaca (the lumpy bit behind their legs under the tail. Females cloaca are less obvious, but are rather rounded plump looking when they have eggs in them.



Saying that Wolfgang may come into his/her own if s/he's sexually mature - may happen in the cooler months (autumn/winter/spring).

We separated ours into what we thought were same sexes at 8/9months as we didn't want to breed them, but recently realised we'd put our 2 darkest wildtypes together thinking they were both males only to discover one was a female.

 

[joan]

They all look like females or juveniles (unsexable) to me.

Based on the ages and sizes you gave, you probably can't sex most of them yet. Give it a few months. They can take up to 18 months to reach maturity.

 

[chathuranga]

Is that a real tortoise or turtle in that second picture? Amazing if it is one cos that would be awesome if they get along with each other.

 

[clay]

Thats what i thourt chaturanga lol

 

[jay]

No its a statue. alot of people have asked us if the are real though, so i guess it looks pretty realistic