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Post by bluemoose on Aug 21, 2010 2:06:25 GMT -5
I'm starting my own small colony of feeder mice but I'm having trouble telling their genders. I bought 6 mice from my local feeder store and was told that five were female and one was male. When I got them home and tried to sex them, half of them appeared to be female and half of them I really had no idea. I've never actually tried to sex a mouse so I'm no expert but I did look at some pictures online to get the idea. I'm hoping someone will more knowledge on this matter can help me out. Three mice look like this: Those are female I'm assuming. And the other three look like this: At first I thought those ones were in estrus but after looking at pictures of that, it doesn't look the same. Anyone have any ideas?
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Post by goingpostal on Aug 21, 2010 10:21:52 GMT -5
1st two are female, last 3 are males, you can tell by the distance between their parts and also with the males if you just hold them on your hand for a bit their testicles will drop but you can see that sac either way. Also you'll get better as you go, I had a hard time at first as well and could only sex them if they were fairly mature or really young with the fur starts coming in by checking for nipples.
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Post by bluemoose on Aug 21, 2010 12:03:06 GMT -5
Ah ok. Thanks much
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Post by rarnold18 on Aug 21, 2010 19:43:36 GMT -5
I agree with goingpostal...first two are girls last three are males...
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Post by bluemoose on Aug 21, 2010 21:43:04 GMT -5
Thanks I could tell there was a difference but for some reason the males looked different than the pictures online so I was confused I checked the two mice the fat, overfed snake hadn't eaten and one of the those was female. So the ferrets took care of the excess males and I'm starting with one male and four females.
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