sexing baby BP's

Well, my first clutch is moving around now, so thats awesome! I guess mynext step is sexing the babies. I have never tried popping a baby, I am pretty good with adults, sub, and even little 100 gram ones, but never tried a hatchling, is it any harder than on adults? I will be trying tonight after I shower and eat dinner, just wondering what options I have in the meantime.

I hatched 1 pastel and 4 normals....bllleeeeeeeh, but it beats dead eggs any day of the week!

My first morph!
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It's 10 times easier on babies. Just be careful.

anyone have a pic of a baby male and females "parts"? I dont want to push to hard on the little guys looking for something that isnt there!

I don't off hand, but they look just like the adult ones, just smaller and easier to push out.

Males look like RED eye stalks of snails, without the eyes :)

Gals are just pink.

Just send them over here. I'll sex them for you. :D

I was kinda hesitant with my first hatchlings also. It's not that difficult, pretty much the same as with older ball pythons, just a whole lot smaller. With my first ones, and with less confidence than I have now, I also probed my little ones after about a month.
It's best to wait until after their first shed.

check these 2 ralph davis videos out!!!

YouTube - Sexing Baby Ball Pythons - part 1

YouTube - Sexing Baby Ball Pythons - part 2

Just do it gentle and do the thumb roll and the stuff pops right out. New hatchlings (before their first shed) are like handling silk though - there's hardly any friction to their skin at this point. What I did was mark the obvious males - where the penes popped right out - as boys. Any snake that didn't show penes I marked as a girl with a question mark. Then I went back and re-popped all the possible females a number of times to re-check my results. It was a lot easier popping them after that first shed when they aren't so darn slippery.

Oh be ready to get peed on! LOL