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Breeder sexing slings!


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15 years 2 months ago #24717 by Schalk du Plessis
I doubt that very much.
Odds are that at least one is female.
Pokies, from what I understand, tend to have a higher male:female ratio than some other species.

If you only bought 2, I would say yes, then you might have 2 males. But out of 4, you should have a female.

But then again, luck is a weird thing :)

Breeding is a weird thing, you can't do it with just females, so at some point someone might have a need for a male. I had someone offer to swop my one P cambridgei male for a female (I thought I have 2 males). So it is possible to maybe swop later on as well.

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15 years 2 months ago - 15 years 2 months ago #24719 by Morné Strydom
Any breeder that claims that he sexes all its slings at a size of 1-2cm is talking bull. Formal sexing is not possible at that size. Informal sexing might be tried by breeders... That is based on an assumption that males will grow bigger (or appear larger in size) than females after molts IF the exact same conditions were met for all the slings coming from the SAME eggsac, e.g. temperature, food, environment, etc. Breeders might sell the bigger babies first in order to increase the number of possible females left in the same batch. But then again, THIS METHOD IS NOT FOOL PROOF! I think it is more of an "intelligent guess"...

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15 years 2 months ago - 15 years 2 months ago #24720 by Darren
Replied by Darren on topic Re: Breeder sexing slings!
It just sucks because im a uni student and to buy a pokie is super expensive, I bleed every time i buy 1 lol but is worth it if u get a female

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15 years 2 months ago #24721 by Ceratogyrus
Replied by Ceratogyrus on topic Re: Breeder sexing slings!

spinnerkop wrote: So would you say the 4x P.regalis 4cm i got from a well known breeder are probably all males?

Ask the breeder. There is no one here that could answer that question for you without lying.

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15 years 2 months ago - 15 years 2 months ago #24724 by Hendrik Steenberg
I'm agreeing with DocMorrie on this one keeping the smaller slings in hoping they females is not fool proof. From a batch of B. vagans I bred I kept 6 largest and 6 smallest slings. If only been able to sex 2 of the larger slings at 5cm and they both girls.
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15 years 2 months ago #24725 by Ceratogyrus
Replied by Ceratogyrus on topic Re: Breeder sexing slings!
One more thing. Dont assume that males grow faster than females. I have bred a few species and keep babies back, and the females have outgrown the males easily a few times.

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