please help me to identify sex and type of my 3 new Redfoot

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Redfoot number A I think is a female.
It is very red. Is it a Cherry head and male or female?
 

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Tortoise B I'm pretty sure is a super colorful male. He has flat sides and a concave plastron. Also a huge, long tail.
His shell colors and pattern are unusual.
Is it a male and what type?
 

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Tortoise C is what I beleive to be female.
What is your thought?
 

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I believe Redfoot A is just that. A beautiful Redfoot and not a Cherryhead.
 

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I think they are all northerns, B is male, still think A and C are too small. Someone with more experience may be able to tell which way they are going. The plastrons look amazing, that last one especially.
What's happening Ed. I thought you only had 4 torts now.
 

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I think they are all northerns, B is male, still think A and C are too small. Someone with more experience may be able to tell which way they are going. The plastrons look amazing, that last one especially.
What's happening Ed. I thought you only had 4 torts now.
I was gifted these by member @cuco de cuba.
He no longer had a good place to keep them.
 

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If that weren't enough I excavated 14 Redfoot eggs out of my other pen this afternoon and I'm pretty sure I left at least that many behind.
Maybe I'm losing my mind.
Cool man. Told you they had to be more coming, where abouts in the enclosure were they. Hope some hatch for you. Did you see them laying or just decide to have a look.
 

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Oh, yes.
My memory is terrible.
@allegraf
And anyone else that has kept Redfoot for long.
I have one male and 3 females in my herd. I'm interested in adding other females. But I can also toss in another male for a 2 to 5 ratio.
But if two turn out to be males, it would make for 3 males and 4 females.
That doesn't sound ideal.
 

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Cool man. Told you they had to be more coming, where abouts in the enclosure were they. Hope some hatch for you. Did you see them laying or just decide to have a look.
I saw one laying on top of the grass while I was changing the water pools and started to dig in between the spider plants. The soil Is deep and soft there. Everywhere I looked, eggs. I accidentally crushed two of them and stopped digging due to back pain.
 

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I saw one laying on top of the grass while I was changing the water pools and started to dig in between the spider plants. The soil Is deep and soft there. Everywhere I looked, eggs. I accidentally crushed two of them and stopped digging due to back pain.
Do any look already chalked up?
 

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Since @ZEROPILOT and I share the same questionable ambient cranium capacity - B is your male and I would bet you a 3 dollar bill to a powdered donut they all came from a farm in Venezuela...
Thanks.
You also think that the other two are likely female?
 
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Thanks.
You also think that the other two are likely female?

Actually - since they always look female until one season they seem to 'grow' to be male - C is one of those and A is too small.

The plastron-concavity shot and "waist" shot are meaningless for quite a few years yet...
 

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A & C are looking female to me, but they're still at that size where it could go either way. I agree with you that B is a male.
All are northerns. Really nice colors, especially all that orange on the male!
They look like A & C are girls and B is a boy. Their sex is not for sure, sometimes it seems like the tail grows 2" overnight! Or that "male" starts laying eggs.
 

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