What Does A Pinhead Look Like?

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Originally Posted by Dutti

Does something like this occur in humans or any other animals?

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Well, kinda. I see fat peole everyday that look like they have no neck. But I wouldn't call it a pinhead since their head is fat too! LOL!.

Anyways, I always had doubts about it but it still comes up.

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Originally Posted by MasonC2K

Jist for clarity, the pinhead I have talking about is when you overfeed the heck out of a snake in its youth that the body is supposedly so much bigger that the head that it is called a pinhead. Some of the descriptions I have found say the snake looks like it has no neck.

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I wouldn't call that pinheading, just fat snakes. Google fat blood pythons if you want to see some robust snakes with tiny heads :P

yes this is about boas being powerfed, not hatchling BPs. They do seem to eventually grow into it and it doesn't happen to every power fed animal.
It does exist, if I could go back and screenshot stuff I saw posted on Kingsnake in the late 90s and show it to you, I would.
People would get ridiculed for it and so people stopped posting photos. It's subtle, it's not like a tiny head on a huge body but it is a head that looks too small for the size of the snake.
As I suggested, google super motley boa to get an idea of what it looks like.

In 37 years of having boas and pythons I have never seen it. My guess the syndrome was coined by breeders to grow their stock fast and attempting to scare the competition to grow their stock extremely slow. Overfeed a boa and you will have worse problems than the mythical pinhead.

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Originally Posted by Dutti

I can assure you that such thing does not exist and just a fairy tale. I challenge anyone to provide pictures. Think logicly, even if the snake is overfed, why would the head become much smaller than the body? Does something like this occur in humans or any other animals? You can mention other real negative sides of overfeeding, no need to believe, rely on and spread fairy tales such as this.

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The head doesn't become smaller. The whole skeletal structure is the same size but the fat from all the food is being stored on body of the snake making the head appear to be smaller. Basically, its more of just the snake is plain fat. Pinhead is not something that is going to be like a bean sized head on a sausage thick body.

And like mentioned, look at some blood python pics. Some of them are little chubby monkies with smallish heads. That's fine for that species I'm guessing(I don't know my blood pythons) but for a boa, that is most definitely not fine.