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    pleasant surprise

    early last year I bought a male pinstripe het albino. last season when he got past 550 grams, I put him in with my het albino female. I was very disappointed when no eggs came of it, never saw a lock but was hoping he was just shy. This season I put him in my proven het albino female, still not seeing a lock, I put in my
    albino male after cleaning yesterday, hoping a little competition would get him going. Well, yesterday afternoon I saw the albino male locked up with the male pinstripe het albino for most of the later part of the day. I didn't really think anything of it since that can happen, a dominance thing. Today I probed "him" and found out he is in fact a she.
    I never checked, since I've never heard of a breeder mistakenly selling a female as a male, the other way around, all the time, it never occurred to me to check.
    I'm hoping for at least one albino pinstripe to come of this, wish me luck.


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    Wow!
    At least it's a cool combo!
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    Re: pleasant surprise

    I know, right?
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    then we will know peace. Jimi Hendrix

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    Huh very interesting! And lucky! Good lucky!

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    did you pop to make sure?
    probes have been known to be wrong more than once
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    My thoughts would be this. If the breeder made a sex mistake, perhaps you should question the het factor as well. Good luck though. BTW how large is the pin?
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    Re: pleasant surprise

    Quote Originally Posted by Ladybugzcrunch View Post
    My thoughts would be this. If the breeder made a sex mistake, perhaps you should question the het factor as well. Good luck though. BTW how large is the pin?
    A gender mistake is very easy to make, although a breeder should always triple check before selling an animal. That isn't the same as lying about the genetics of the animals you sell, or not keeping proper records of pairings.
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