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imacted scent glands?

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Posted by: nate351 at Sun Apr 5 19:32:21 2009   [ Email Message ] [ Show All Posts by nate351 ]  
   

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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