I know how science likes to compartmentalize everything and have everything fit into nice little boxes. But, I have been producing lots of monitors for a very long time, since 91, with monitors hatching on a weekly basis. And over all those years, I have raised up group after group after group. And as long as I left them in groups(not mucked with the group), I have never, ever recieved all one sex.

To have something to compare to, I also have produced lots of snakes. Yet with snakes, we commonly have whole clutches that are all male or are all female. Luck of the draw predicts 50/50. Which if your a gambling man, you clearly understand that means runs of all one or the other, over short periods. Yet with monitors, over LARGE numbers we have always had both sexes in hundreds upon hundreds of clutches we have raised up.

Just to make it current, I am raising 12 different clutches as WE SPEAK. And so far, all have both sexes. Someone HAS TO EXPLAIN THAT TO ME. ESplain it please!

I understand the sex chromosone thing, but that does not prevent this type of event from happening, as it does not prevent many reptiles from have their sex manipulated with temps.

So until one of you fine gentlemen can explain this to me, I will hold judgement. And that means, one of you fine gentlemen will have to be successful enough to actually have experience(numbers) with the animals. I know, that is rude to ask, but would any of you take advice from people without experience in any other area??????? In my experience, the results are prejudiced by something. Cheers

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• what age 4 a positive gender ratio in - phantompoo, Sat Dec 22 18:51:45 2007
• RE: what age 4 a positive gender ratio in - jburokas, Sun Dec 23 19:41:42 2007
• RE: what age 4 a positive gender ratio i - phantompoo, Mon Dec 24 00:51:33 2007
• RE: what age 4 a positive gender ratio i - JME, Mon Dec 24 14:01:32 2007
• RE: Are you positive about that - FR, Mon Dec 24 22:38:36 2007
• RE: Are you positive about that - JME, Wed Dec 26 20:35:03 2007
• RE: Are you positive about that - FR, Wed Dec 26 22:45:24 2007
• Ive seen many ackies that could be sexed - SHvar, Thu Dec 27 11:06:09 2007
• RE: Ive seen many ackies that could be sexed - JME, Thu Dec 27 18:35:31 2007
• RE: Ive seen many ackies that could be sexed - FR, Thu Dec 27 19:11:25 2007
• RE: what age 4 a positive gender ratio in - sidbarvin, Mon Dec 24 19:42:47 2007
• RE: what age 4 a positive gender ratio in - FR, Thu Dec 27 16:50:09 2007
• Not monitors...but.... - MadAxeMan, Fri Dec 28 07:57:00 2007
• Humans - HappyHillbilly, Fri Dec 28 09:23:27 2007
• Serves you right - MadAxeMan, Fri Dec 28 20:46:19 2007
• RE: Serves you right - HappyHillbilly, Fri Dec 28 23:37:47 2007
• RE: Serves you right - MadAxeMan, Sun Dec 30 12:19:00 2007