Male or Female?

TurtisTime

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This is Michelle. I think she’s a female, can someone confirm? Or is it too soon to tell?
She is 12” long across her plastron. Not sure how much she weighs (need a new scale) or how old she is. I’m guessing around 4-5 years old? Any feed back appreciated!

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Chubbs the tegu

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Not sure if quite large enough yet but males will have a slight concave plastron
 

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Your tortoise is too young/small to tell the sex yet. It looks a bit female, but that can change and male secondary sexual characteristics can start developing yet at this size. I don't count a female as a female until it is 16" and 16 lbs. At 16" I know it is large enough to have developed some male characteristics if it is a male.
 
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