The pied is the female in this case! But George (the black pastel male) did take a solid week or two to get a good lock. (And then several more to lock in such a way that I could photograph it.)
re: lazy pieds... I have more than one pied, and I can state for a fact that they're not all lazy. They're not all slow growers, either!
But the girl pictured here is a lazy one. In fact, she may very well be in the running for The World's Laziest Animal. It's kind of amazing.