What is the gender of your Desert Torts?

[Shelly]

I was very surprised when Yvonne said that almost every Desert Tort rescue she receives is a male, and that males also outnumber females in the wild. I wonder why that is?

I have 1 female, and 2 males.

 

[galvinkaos]

I have 2 unknown. Still small, so I don't know. Hatched Oct 2007.

Dawna

 

[kimber_lee_314]

I definite male, 1 definite female, 1 that looks like it's going to be female, and 2 too small to tell yet. Almost all my rescues are male too.

 

[Yvonne G]

2.3.4

 

[Sudhira]

At what age is gender determined?

 

[kimber_lee_314]

It's usually more of a size thing than age. Some people say 8 inches, but even then, I've seen males that look like females at that size.

 

[sushisurf13]

I have one adult female and her three babies. The babies hatched 9/09.

 

[APBT_Fanatic]

I have an adult male and two hatchlings, so I am not sure about them yet.

 

[Stephanie Logan]

So isn't anyone going to speculate or explain the disproportionate ratio of rescued males?

 

[kimber_lee_314]

Well, here's my opinion. Like most torts, you can keep several females with a male, but it's harder to keep more than one male (well I've heard it can be - I've never had an issue with this.) So when someone gets a female, they usually just hang on to her.

 

[sharlan]

I have 2 males that I've had since they were hatched.