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.


http://i48.tinypic.com/288a5jq.jpg

Wow!
At least it's a cool combo!

I know, right?

Huh very interesting! And lucky! Good lucky!

did you pop to make sure?
probes have been known to be wrong more than once :)

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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Originally Posted by Ladybugzcrunch

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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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.