Confused on gender of one snake
I have a female ball python who has been with me for 6 years. Ive decided to have a go at breeding recently and I wanted to double check her sex. After being shown how to properly pop and probe I’m kind of still confused. When popping her today 2 little brown thing shot out from each side of her scent glands. https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/201...e8e12162fa.jpg they smelled.
I have uploaded a few videos to YouTube to show me probing and popping her. Suggestions please? She was also probed with a very small probe long ago and the tiny probe went 6 scales deep on the left side and around 3-3.5 scales deep on the other. Using the regular sized probe today I got 4 scales on one side and 5 on the other. I used a lot of lube it slipped on quite easily.
https://youtu.be/T27iuZJJ8OU
That is the link to the YouTube videos.
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https://youtu.be/KI1fy4U4GuE
Popping video 1
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Popping video 2
https://youtu.be/dwQK7H-uQnc
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If your intention is to breed the snake: Why not just add your male and see if they lock? :)
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Medduussa
I have a female ball python who has been with me for 6 years. Ive decided to have a go at breeding recently and I wanted to double check her sex. After being shown how to properly pop and probe I’m kind of still confused. When popping her today 2 little brown thing shot out from each side of her scent glands.
https://ball-pythons.net/forums/cach...e8e12162fa.jpg they smelled.
I have uploaded a few videos to YouTube to show me probing and popping her. Suggestions please? She was also probed with a very small probe long ago and the tiny probe went 6 scales deep on the left side and around 3-3.5 scales deep on the other. Using the regular sized probe today I got 4 scales on one side and 5 on the other. I used a lot of lube it slipped on quite easily.
https://youtu.be/T27iuZJJ8OU
That is the link to the YouTube videos.
those look like sperm plugs/penile castings. your girl is actually a boy.
:oops:
Confused on gender of one snake
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Ax01
those look like sperm plugs/penile castings. your girl is actually a boy.
:oops:
She was probed by a breeder. She’s not.
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Ax01
those look like sperm plugs/penile castings. your girl is actually a boy.
:oops:
And when she is probed she never goes more than 4 scales
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Ax01
those look like sperm plugs/penile castings. your girl is actually a boy.
:oops:
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Medduussa
She was probed by a breeder. She’s not.
ok. what else did the breeder do? pop? breed? proven out?
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Medduussa
And when she is probed she never goes more than 4 scales
i dunno. sounds like u still are finding it difficult to probe and pop. i think there are a few choices here. some are: 1) find a reputable breeder or vet to properly pop and prob for ya; 2) go ahead and introduce your male in an attempt to breed and u will find out soon enough. ;)
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She was popped as a baby 6 years ago
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