Sex my quads

[Dooley1]

I'm not very familiar with sexing baby quads yet. Maybe Luis, Steve, or others can chime in with thoughts. I suppose it would be pattern at this age...but all 7 look like females to me so I maybe I am just not seeing it correctly.

I know the pics are not good, and of course they turn brown and washed out when I take pics of them, but I gave it a shot.

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I'm hoping they are easy to sex from hatching like lats.

Thanks!

Kevin

 

[pamnsam94]

I've read about the pattern thing before, but I don't believe I'm really seeing it with the 14 I have. I may be mistaken, but I don't think there is any real consensus if that holds true. Someone please correct me if I'm wrong. What I am seeing though in my 10 week olds are some that I would say I'm 99% sure are males, some I would say I'm 99% sure are females, and there are 4 or 5 that I am only maybe 55% sure of their sex. These guesses are based solely on the crenulations, both along the back and on the basal third of the tail. Of course, both male and female quads have dorsal crests, not only at the base of the tail but along the back also. It's just that as they grow, the males' dorsal crests become much more pronounced, way bigger than the females' crests. I wish I would have noted exactly when I first noticed the crests on my neonates, but on some of them at least, I noticed crenulations very early on, maybe as soon as one or two weeks. If I compare two of my largest individuals that are pretty much the exact same size, especially at this age (10 weeks) and one doesn't have a wavy crest (totally smooth), but the other has a pronounced dorsal crest, crenulations and all, I'm pretty sure I'm looking at a male and female. I know Laurie had a baby quad that she thought was a male (based on the wavy dorsal crest if I'm not mistaken) but as it grew, it became obvious that it was a female. I'm guessing that particular quad was similar to the 4 or 5 individuals that I question from my group. I too would like to know if there is a 100% accurate way to determine the sex of neonate quads, but with the group I have anyway, I'm only able to guess more accurately as they grow (dorsal crests are becoming more pronounced primarily, but I'm also noticing larging horn buds on some).

Perry