Although I have not read about it anywhere, I have encountered many female BCI's with what appear to be impacted scent glands. These often appear to be large hemipenal bulges, but when expressed they spray a very noxious black/silvery substance about the color and consistency of JB weld epoxy resin. While I have manually expressed these on several snakes in which it generally did not recur, I am curious as to the cause of this and if there is any particular health risk resulting from this "impaction". A few snakes seemed very uncomfortable from the degree of swelling they had experienced with the scent glands. Again, I have never read about this in any book or literature, so I would like your input.

nate.

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• imacted scent glands? - nate351, Sun Apr 5 19:32:21 2009
• RE: imacted scent glands? - jhsulliv, Mon Apr 6 06:18:09 2009
• RE: imacted scent glands? - nate351, Mon Apr 6 17:37:37 2009
• RE: imacted scent glands? - ajfreptiles, Tue Apr 7 08:18:47 2009