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Sexing pinkies?

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simple_minded

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Is there anyway to sex pinkies? My mouse just popped, and I wanna keep back a couple of the females but I'll probably cull the rest. Is there a way to do this when they're pinkies? or do I have to wait till they're older?
 
I can sex bigger pinks/peaches by the distance between the 2 genital openings, and the nipples on females are more prominent. I don't touch pinks in the first couple of days or my mice eat them!
 
diamondlil said:
I can sex bigger pinks/peaches by the distance between the 2 genital openings, and the nipples on females are more prominent. I don't touch pinks in the first couple of days or my mice eat them!
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Then you have naughty mice! :rolleyes:

If they are not long haired, I can see the difference good enought to be sure about the sexe after 3 weeks.
 
Haha! I certainly do! Luckily they have improved their production with a higher protein diet, but they still don't like the nest being disturbed for the first week
 
Fortunately my girl seems pretty lax about letting me touch her babies. I had to handle them on the second day (for other reasons, not because of sexing), and she could've cared less. I did find a dead baby(still born?) on the first day, and she didn't even try to eat the baby. Just left it there in the cage (one of my snakes had a nice snack).

The reason I want to sex them within the first week is because I need pinkies to feed my baby snake. I did notice that the genitals of some of the babies were larger than others. But I can't tell if that's because they're males or because they're large babies.
 
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