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Boy?!
Posted: Tue Jun 04, 2013 4:32 pm
by crm2000
Hi there

! I got Percy out today and was deciding what treat to give him/her since I fell asleep and missed his/her feeding ... again. As usual he/she started pooping so I watched in case I could see any male organs I did not so I thought he/she was probably a girl but then I saw this. Do you guys think its a sperm plug

.I know its not string by the way. Thanks!

Re: Boy?!
Posted: Tue Jun 04, 2013 4:35 pm
by Susann
Nope, that's called a urate.
Oh.... very hard to tell. Any chance you could post a bigger picture, or crop it down to the area you are wanting us to look at?
Re: Boy?!
Posted: Tue Jun 04, 2013 4:38 pm
by Dakota
I see some residue of something.. might be a little squirt of pee or a sperm plug.. isn't the urate more toward the bottom of the picture?
Re: Boy?!
Posted: Tue Jun 04, 2013 4:39 pm
by crm2000
I know about the urate that's the white stuff I am talking about the barely visible string thing in the middle of the picture.
Re: Boy?!
Posted: Tue Jun 04, 2013 4:41 pm
by Susann
Did you see the pictures on this recent thread?
viewtopic.php?f=4&t=23316
Re: Boy?!
Posted: Tue Jun 04, 2013 4:44 pm
by crm2000
No those are helpful though I wasn't sure because of how it wasn't that close to his poop and urate.
Re: Boy?!
Posted: Tue Jun 04, 2013 4:45 pm
by Susann
They aren't always close. Sometimes there isn't any poop at all.
Re: Boy?!
Posted: Tue Jun 04, 2013 4:46 pm
by Dakota
I know sometimes my Meraukes, especially Xaunder, just kinda drip out pee.. sometimes even milky, and it looks just like this.. but it could be a dried up sperm plug..

Re: Boy?!
Posted: Tue Jun 04, 2013 4:54 pm
by crm2000
Susann wrote:Nope, that's called a urate.
Oh.... very hard to tell. Any chance you could post a bigger picture, or crop it down to the area you are wanting us to look at?
Okay this is the best "crop" I could do. I hope it helps!
Re: Boy?!
Posted: Tue Jun 04, 2013 5:10 pm
by Richard.C
Its hard to see in the pic,but looks like a plug,if its goopy looking like pics in other thread id say yes thats a sperm plug