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12-02-2008, 10:49 PM
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male or female??
Is there any way to tell the sex of the snake without surgery?The pet store said male(questionable), I can't find the leg remants(insert tech term here) any suggestions appreciated, tha nks
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12-03-2008, 12:10 AM
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Re: male or female??
Surgery? Whoever recommended surgery as a means of sexing boas, you should never speak to again.
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12-03-2008, 01:00 AM
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Re: male or female??
Yea, and won't buy a reptile from again, it was the pet shop that I bought her from that said the only way to be certain was for a vet to surgically sex but he thought it was a male
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12-03-2008, 01:08 AM
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Re: male or female??
About.com: http://www.petclubuk.com/view/page.do?id=255
visual is the easiest but not 100% right from what ive heard. popping or probing should be left to the pros
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12-03-2008, 03:50 AM
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Re: male or female??
Thanks caliking for that very informative link and yea im way to new to try anything but visual I wouldn't want to hurt her id never forgive myself, and if he/she doesn't mind me callin it a her I was more curious than anything as to her sex
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12-03-2008, 03:53 AM
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Re: male or female??
they were probably referring to probing as sexing surgically. It's no more surgical than taking your temperature 
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12-03-2008, 03:59 AM
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Re: male or female??
yeah, probing and popping are the only accurate ways to do it, but you need a professional herper or vet to do it. You can get a good guess by looking though.
Males tend to have much larger spurs - the hind leg remnants. Male also have tails that are wider at the base and taper less rapidly compared to a female. This is so that there is adequate space to house its hemipenes.
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Re: male or female??
Was told when i bought Rosebud, that she was a female, shes about 2-3' long right now and was told that she is about 9 months old, and that they might change sex? im thinking this was just to ensure that they werent "wrong" in sexing, but i plan to have her sexed in a few months....
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01-21-2009, 06:28 PM
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Re: male or female??
Snakes are not hermaphroditic. Somebody was either messing with you or full of S**T.
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01-21-2009, 06:33 PM
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Re: male or female??
Snakes are not like worms and multisexual. The only true ways of sexing are probing and popping . I'm too inexperienced to pop or probe so I have a friend do it. 
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01-21-2009, 06:38 PM
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Re: male or female??
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Originally Posted by PhL0aTeR
Was told when i bought Rosebud, that she was a female, shes about 2-3' long right now and was told that she is about 9 months old, and that they might change sex? im thinking this was just to ensure that they werent "wrong" in sexing, but i plan to have her sexed in a few months....
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i think when that happens, you just had someone that was sexing snakes and didnt know what they were doing so they mis-sexed them  LOL
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01-21-2009, 11:31 PM
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Re: male or female??
P.S From what ive read "popping" is a bad idea and mostly not reccomended. Probe or dont bother would be my advice. Others may disagree.
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01-22-2009, 01:10 AM
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Re: male or female??
Popping isn't bad as long as a vet or someone with a lot of experience is doing it but I would suggest not to try and do it yourself
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