Isabelle is a three-toed box turtle and may be a male rather than a female. At the very least, they are separate subspecies and it's not generally considerred desireable to have mixxed hatchlings, as people purchasing them seem to invariably want a specific sex and not mutts (I have separated my subspecies now because of this).



If we can get some good shots of isabelles plastron, maybe we can help you be certain of "her" sex. Mounting behavior from females is rare, but in males it is normal, even male-on-male, male-on-vaugely-turtle-shaped-rock, male-on-dirtball, male-on-baseball, etc.



Three-toeds are the most tricky of the north american box turtles to sex, but hopefully we can help you out.

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• Is my female boxie being goofy????? - breakfastatme, Mon Jun 23 14:47:27 2003
• RE: Is my female boxie being goofy????? - Rouen, Mon Jun 23 16:25:21 2003
• RE: Is my female boxie being goofy????? - breakfastatme, Mon Jun 23 23:25:27 2003
• Probably ready to lay eggs. - vidusa, Tue Jun 24 09:56:23 2003
• What???? - breakfastatme, Tue Jun 24 10:29:52 2003
• RE: Probably ready to lay eggs. - tortugas, Tue Jun 24 11:45:16 2003
• Maybe because they are two different subspecies - more - tortugas, Tue Jun 24 10:56:29 2003
• I not trying to breed them - breakfastatme, Tue Jun 24 11:43:43 2003
• RE: I not trying to breed them - Rouen, Tue Jun 24 11:48:23 2003
• RE: I not trying to breed them - tortugas, Tue Jun 24 12:25:33 2003
• RE: I not trying to breed them - breakfastatme, Tue Jun 24 14:18:46 2003
• RE: I not trying to breed them - nathana, Wed Jun 25 12:06:08 2003
• They are nice looking turtles!!! - N/P - tortugas, Tue Jun 24 13:14:21 2003
• RE: They are nice looking turtles!!! - N/P - breakfastatme, Wed Jun 25 22:47:00 2003
• RE: Is my female boxie being goofy????? - nathana, Wed Jun 25 12:02:31 2003