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Here is my first pastel out of the egg. It seems to be a girl, I hope so. Anyway this is the only baby to completely leave the egg, I'm glad she chose to come out fist. Enjoy the pic.
Jason

I wish you luck that it is a girl...Hold her back and in 3 years produce SUPERS!!!!

I get my new pastel in July

Hope it looks as good as that!!!!!

Mike

How does one tell the sex of a BP? We have a baby from a petstore who is maybe a couple of months old but have no idea as to the sex. I have heard that technically only a vet can tell or I guess someone who has the right equipment to check.

I sexed this baby by popping or manually inverting the hemipenes or lack of hemipenes. This is a fairly reliable way of sexing when done correctly. Once this little girl sheds and eats, I will prob her, which is another reliable way of sexing Ball Pythons. I like to do both, just to double check. It is safest to have a vet probe animals, but with some experience, breeders can also probe sankes.
Jason

Actually, if you think about it, breeders are far more likely to have probed snakes than vets. There are very very few experienced reptile veterinarians out there. Unless you are lucky and have access to one of those, chances are the breeder has done it scores of times more than your vet. Additionally, unless that vet is also an avid keeper, I doubt they will know off the tops of their heads the scale counts for each species anyways.