female or male?

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I know it’s to young to tell but if you had to guess what would you say?
P.s does her plastron look okay?:)

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Plastron looks fine. The red in the seams is from heavily vascularized new growth.
And at this time, I would say female if I had to guess the sex.
Thanks, So they look like their separating in between that’s normal?
 

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Thanks, So they look like their separating in between that’s normal?
Yes. The bone is growing beneath. The scutes are somewhat attached/stationary at their areola. So when the bone grows it pulls the scutes apart. This stimulates the productions of new keratin to fill in the seam. As Zovick said, you can see the eplithelial layer beneath which has good blood flow through it. The keratin takes a while to "catch up" and fill in the gap, then it thickens to match the thickness of the rest of the scute. On the carapace this often is seen as white lines that develop between the separating scutes.
 

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Any opinions, she’s about 4 pounds now just turned a year.
 

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Do you think you can tell the gender yet? And she is almost 4 pounds I got her last year a little beginning of March and she had a tiny tiny umbilical dot on her plastron. So I assumed she was fairly young.
You usually can't tell until they are around 14" or more. Sometimes the fast growers take even longer to show. I had one that I really couldn't tell until she was 4 years old and around 18 inches.
 

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Any opinions, she’s about 4 pounds now just turned a year.
Still looks female at this time, but as others have said, it is still a little early to be sure of the sex.

If you post some pix of the head and face, sometimes it is possible to say whether a tortoise's head and face appear to be more masculine or more feminine.
 

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1800 grams at one year old? Wow.
Still looks female at this time, but as others have said, it is still a little early to be sure of the sex.

If you post some pix of the head and face, sometimes it is possible to say whether a tortoise's head and face appear to be more masculine or more feminine.
here’s some pics I just took. I had to wake her up she’s not very happy ? I always just referred to her as a girl she just gave me that girly feeling I guess? and one head shot of her eating. Also, do you have any idea why her scales are so dark in color? They always have been this way since I got her but seems to get darker as she grows bigger legs.
 

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here’s some pics I just took. I had to wake her up she’s not very happy ? I always just referred to her as a girl she just gave me that girly feeling I guess? and one head shot of her eating. Also, do you have any idea why her scales are so dark in color? They always have been this way since I got her but seems to get darker as she grows bigger legs.
Head shot is not overly definitive at this time, though I think it may be tending toward a feminine "look". I have no idea why the scales are getting darker. Perhaps it is a type of protective coloration which would occur in their natural habitat.
 

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Your babe is getting so big, so fun to see her a year ago and then now :<3:
Congrats on your chunky monkey! ( oh wait... she's a tortoise)
 
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