The worst day ever.

Yeah I've seen (and unfortunately smelt) that stuff and it's beyond gross. Got it on me while showing someone how to pop using the young male BCI, Severus and it basically cleared the room...what a stink! Also saw it from Orlah and from Saoirse when we first got them and had to overhandle them for soaking and so forth to get their old sheds off.


I can't figure this one out Christie. Dandy has probed more than once as a female by a vet and a person experienced in probing. When you pop Dandy it sounds like a female from what you described on the phone to me and I was looking at one of my own females I was popping while talking to you. You aren't seeing any red, any hemipenes or indication of sperm plugs present (though I don't know how fast they replace plugs once shed and it's only been what 24 hours or so since you found that in the enclosure).

Wish we could find you somebody close that a very experienced person who regularily pops snakes to do Dandy and get a proper and complete look at what's going on inside that vent of hers/his.

As I said to you on the phone, if Dandy is indeed a male, you'll have a mature female to breed to your male this fall. There's no way your friends are going to let you miss this season when you've worked so hard to get ready for it and leave that brand new incubator sitting empty.

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. As a baby it probed female. Then yesterday it popped out this....

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Looks like something out of a sci-fi movie. Hope someone will explain what this is, I'm very intrigued.

Maybe your snake is a hermaphrodite! :O

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I pray that you have a female there Cass! g'luck and best wishes

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I think you mean Christie, but thanks!

I'm with Cue - please let us chip in to get another professional opinion on Dandy...

I had it reprobed today, and it only probed 3.5 scales (female), by another source. I just don't know what to think about this AT ALL!! :confuzd:

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I just don't know what to think about this AT ALL!! :confuzd:

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All the info points to her still being a her thus far right? That is great news :clap:

Keep us posted :grouphug:

Both probes have indicated female. My feeble attempt at a gentle pop looked mostly female, but I didn't get a full eversion so not conclusive. My only fear is that this snake probes shallow, but is still a male. That thing looked very much like a sperm plug, and I don't know what to make of it. :confuzd: It seems silly to have it probed again, but I just don't know how to explain that 'thing'.

I guess I will give breeding a go, and hopefully I'll see some lovely eggs come spring. :please:

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Both probes have indicated female. My feeble attempt at a gentle pop looked mostly female, but I didn't get a full eversion so not conclusive. My only fear is that this snake probes shallow, but is still a male. That thing looked very much like a sperm plug, and I don't know what to make of it. :confuzd: It seems silly to have it probed again, but I just don't know how to explain that 'thing'.

I guess I will give breeding a go, and hopefully I'll see some lovely eggs come spring. :please:

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Bring her to MD for the winter ... I'll let you know if she's a female or not in the spring. :D :D :D

-adam

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Bring her to MD for the winter ... I'll let you know if she's a female or not in the spring. :D :D :D

-adam

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You're such a big help. :neener: Hey if I can get my butt back home, I'm bringing her to you, but you don't get to keep her!! :P

(my husband is feeling so left out after I explained what I was doing this afternoon. :devilish: )