I couple of questions on sexing and feeding

[waldo]

My new ball is 21 inches long and 4-6 months, is it too big to be safely popped? There is no one I can go to get him probed.

What is a good feeding schedule? once a week or so? I don't want to over feed him.

[Nate]

If you don't know what you're doing, the don't even attempt to pop your snake.

Is the sex of your snake really that important?

I feed once a week. I think a majority of people do the same. Good luck

[waldo]

I know how to pop, I just don't know what the safe size to do so is for a ball.

[Stewart_Reptiles]

My new ball is 21 inches long and 4-6 months, is it too big to be safely popped? There is no one I can go to get him probed.

What is a good feeding schedule? once a week or so? I don't want to over feed him.

No they can be pooped at any age however only someone with experience should do it, do not attempt it yourself.

Good feeding schedule would be once a week, a prey slightly smaller then the girth size and nothing bigger then a small rats (4 weeks old) when your BP will be full grown.

[TheAudOne]

I know how to pop, I just don't know what the safe size to do so is for a ball.

I'm going to sound like a complete jerk..but how is it you know how to pop a snake (not something everyone knows how to do) yet not when and what size to feed... *shrugs*

Good job if you do know how to pop ...I'm still working on getting it down pat... *sighs*

[python.princess]

so, i know what probing is but what is popping? obviously i'm not gonna try it but i keep seeing people talk about it and it's got me wondering...

[LadyOhh]

Popping is a technique where you push out the genitals of the snake.


There is a certain technique that you have to know, and it can, if done wrong, be harmful to your snake.

[waldo]

I know how to pop because I learned it on my corn snakes by watching kathy loves video. You should never pop a corn over 18", I assumed there was a cut off size on BP's too.
I asked about feeding because BP's are different from young corns who eat every 4-6 days prey that is bigger then they are wide.

@melanie, popping is when you manually pop the males hemi out of the vent. if nothing pops out then its a female (usually). It can cause alot of damage if done improperly.

[SnakeEyes]

I know how to pop because I learned it on my corn snakes by watching kathy loves video. You should never pop a corn over 18", I assumed there was a cut off size on BP's too.
I asked about feeding because BP's are different from young corns who eat every 4-6 days prey that is bigger then they are wide.

@melanie, popping is when you manually pop the males hemi out of the vent. if nothing pops out then its a female (usually). It can cause alot of damage if done improperly.

and to add to that, generally when you get a snake sexed, if nothing is popped and it looks to be a female, most people will then probe it to be 100% sure of the sex. When I bought my baby girl we check almost 10 snakes before we found some females. The worker had a few that when he did it by hand were potential females, but when probed only 2 ended up actually being females.

Wouldnt probing be alot easier and safer from the beginning?

[waldo]

Wouldnt probing be alot easier and safer from the beginning?

Sure would be but I live in a town with a populatoin of 200, no one to probe, no one to teach me how and I don't really like the idea of sticking a rod up my snakes butt when I don't know what I'm doing.