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Hello,

So many questions from me! Shows you all how anxious i am getting about my female chuck.

Has there been any sort of study to see if there is any effect of incubation temperature on the sex of hatchling chuckies? I was involved in a PhD looking at this effect in marine turtles and I know that it happens with other reptiles. I was just reading through previous posts to get the right incubation temp in case I have eggs on the way!

Cheers,

Ben

It's likely from other studies that there could be some influence of temperature during at least part of the incubation on the sex ratio..
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I put some clutches of Sauromalus eggs in barely moist vermiculite and hatch them in my boa rooms (79-87deg F) and get a mostly even male-female sex ratio.. Clutches that go the distance out in the pens give similar, mostly even results.. the females work a lot, especially during the first half of the incubation.. piling up stuff, and sometimes removing it, from the nest sites.. It gets very hot in the pens (110-120deg F), what the temperatures are underground I have no clue.
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Are you considering manipulating the temperatures to favor one sex over the other?
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Why?
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