When sexing goes bad?

[mr.spooky]

hmmmm,,,, why not just probe? if your not afraid to squeeze one until its insides pops out, surley your not afraid to probe...
spooky

[RichsBallPythons]

hmmmm,,,, why not just probe? if your not afraid to squeeze one until its insides pops out, surley your not afraid to probe...
spooky

Probing has been proven to be semi accurate. And more injuries have occurred from probing than ive seen from popping

[mr.spooky]

i cant argue....... iv only probed.. maby one day ill feel more comfortable squeezing a snake till its junk comes out. please dont get me wrong, but me being a novice with the whole thing,, i persionally feel safer with the probe.
i guess that it could go both ways though,,, some people might push the probe wishing it would go further,, and some might squeeze the snake harder, trying to see something that there not even sure what there looking for.
one day i might pop, but im not ready yet.
thanks
spooky

[Akren_905]

I was afraid of harming my snakes when i tried to pop them so i waited till they got a little bigger then i probed them, was still scared when i did that but it wasnt as bad as i orginally thought. They fought alot more from trying to get popped then probed in my experience.
But always make sure you know what your doing before u go willy nilly with a probe and popping, dont want to buy an expensive snake and make it sterile by screwing it up.

[loonunit]

Heather did a piece on popping hatchlings vs. older snakes last month:

http://heathersherpsblog.blogspot.co...l-pythons.html

For me, doing it wrong results in a lot of false negatives---snakes incorrectly sexed as female. I wound up taking my hatchlings first to my local reptile store, where they charge $5 per snake for sexing. They came up with 3 males and 2 females by probing.

Then I took them to the local herp vet, who probed them again, and came up with 3.2 for the exact same snakes. He went on to pop all the males to show me their little baby hemipenes---OBVIOUSLY boys. But I still can't pop them correctly at home! And I'm afraid I'll hurt the little guys, so I've given it up for now.

But I have no problem popping my juvenile (2010 and earlier) boys. I guess they're just all exhibitionists?