He's.. a.. SHE!!!

This is unbelievable; Gobby, my beloved and well known "male" BP is a SHE. I was going into her cage last night to do checkup, and what do I see but 8 EGGS....!
Here is the hysterical part; I had her with LaVay, my male, months ago, in hopes that they would mate; I had been told LaVey was the female! So what we have here is, role reversal; everyone, Goblin is a woman :)
Kinda awesome, as I bought her years back at a reptile show as a male for $60 USD; by people who "couldn't get rid of him" in the last hour of the sale... :P :partyon:
Here are some pics; yes, that is goblin coiled around 8 awesome eggs.
http://i49.photobucket.com/albums/f2...s/hereggs2.jpg
http://i49.photobucket.com/albums/f2...es/hereggs.jpg

The eggs are doing well, I might add. :D

Well that's a heck of a way to find out, hehe! Do you have an incubator? =)

I am in the process:) I want to do everything right for these little gems.

thats awesome Gin!!! good luck with those eggs, i hope everything goes alright!

holy cow that is AWESOME!!! perhaps explains why gobby was so big for a male. :P what an insane surprise though...you must be excited beyong belief! congrats! :party:

That's just crazzzy! What an awesome surprise! Congrats and best of luck hatching out a buncha beautiful babies!

Wow!!!! Congratulations on the clutch! Can't wait to see what pips out!

a friend of mine has tons of birds and sometimes they eggs without being fertilized....will female BP's do that?

Wow what a shocker....so the male turned out to be female and the female turned out to be male???? What a hoot! 8 eggs is a lovely surprise any way you look at it though...congrats and best wishes with them!

Gurgie as far as I know (and I'm far, far from an expert) I don't think female BP's will ovulate without being bred first and if they aren't ovulating they aren't going to produce eggs, even infertile ones. That's my very basic understanding of the norm for BP's. Please someone with a better explanation jump in...I'm still such a dang newb when it comes to explaining something I've not yet witnessed with my own eyes. LOL

I remember a thread a while back where everyone was like, "wow thats the biggest male bp we've seen in a while!".....guess that expains it! congrats!

What boggles my mind is that the sexing was wrong on both snakes...my luck I would have ended up with two, albeit sweet and wonderful, boys.

Wow...talk about luck!

So hold on....let me get this straight.....Goblin originally was mis-sexed and turns out to be female. In addition, that other snake, thought to be female, was in fact a male. Were you intentionally pairing these two up? I'm just kinda confused.

Here's the deal. We bought Gobby at a reptile show in Buffalo, NY.. think it was in 2002. The couple who was selling them actually told us "he" was "an old breeder male they didn't need anymore..." Talk about "bs!" Maybe they got two of their snakes switched somehow, or maybe were just ignorant, who knows.
I am still convincing Mark that we need to rename Gobby, I thought of the name Ginevive. :)

giggling... what are the odds!

congrats!!!

Why don't you rename Gobby ....Gabby..short for Gabrielle!!