I'm not sure, post a better photo of the head... Scaleless head is a bit tricky, I've seen some that look almost normal selling as scaleless head, to me that looks like a real scaleless head. There are more or less amounts of expression, the one I have has a bald head, others you can hardly tell. It's possible an early breeder made a mistake and sold a scaleless head as a normal and it worked it's way into this pied. Personally I'd pair it up with a male scaleless head if you can find or borrow one in the off season, you may get some high dollar scaleless animals! I have a male scaleless head but he is breeding several females at the moment LOL. Prices have come down a lot, even the big breeders are selling male scaleless head normals for $1,500. Next year they will probably go a bit lower, in a few years they will be within reach of everyone. Lots of tables at NARBC have worked scaleless head into their snakes, even saw a few totally scaleless ball pythons.
By the way, if you feed live please check on the animals in about five minutes (snake + rat) to prevent snake damage. I'm trying live feedings now, all my snakes are finally eating, found out the hard way that 20 minutes with a rat is too long. Had a few small bite marks on one of my pied females... Once a rat figures it out and becomes defensive it's better to euthanize that rat and use it for a frozen thawed feeding the next time, I never use an uneaten live feeder more than once.
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