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i was wondering what the best way to sex aggressive babies are ... i have got some crazy babies and they are just so squirmy and aggressive that it makes it harder for me to pop them ... any tricks of the trade that can make my popping easier lol ...

You can get a tube slide them in leaveing the lower half out and work with them like this...its what I do sometimes with the big strong ones.

The best, safest and most accurate way to sex baby boas is to hold their tails upside down and between your thumb and forefinger (thumb along the ventral surface) and gently run the tail down between your fingers while applying a little bit of pressure, from the vent backward toward the tail tip. If it's a male, you will feel two small "bb's" (the hemipenes) a little bit down from the vent. They will kind of roll around under your thumb. It's really pretty obvious once you feel the hemipenes once. If it's a female, you will feel nothing. This doesn't work with older boas but has proven 100% accurate for with boas up to a few months old.

Billy

>>i was wondering what the best way to sex aggressive babies are ... i have got some crazy babies and they are just so squirmy and aggressive that it makes it harder for me to pop them ... any tricks of the trade that can make my popping easier lol ...

Does that work on other species (colubrids)?
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I just grab them carfully behind the head, and let their head slip into my hand, with my pointer finger and thumb (on the same hand) hold their tail straight and probe them. I don't care for the other methods of sexing, poping is acurate for males that pop easily, but I double checked every female by probing for a few years and then just quit trying to pop them..

I have had folks send me the wrong sexed animals several times but they were usualy males that ended up being female. And by time I actualy got around to checking if it was really a male or not they were pretty good sized and just figure great can't ever have enough good females...LOL...

Probing is pretty easy I recomend going to a show and having a breeder show you fist hand. The key is not to use ANY pressure just roll the probe in your hand and it will either find it's way into a hemipene or there isn't one there.. Also having the right sized probe helps if it is to big they will all seem to be females, so get a complete kit..
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