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I have an adult JCP, about 6 & 1/2 feet and hefty. I have had it for about 5 years without the interest to breed it, just always really liked JCP and busy enough breeding about 50 other colubrids and boas. Well, I'd like to try to breed it and I probed it, not a stranger to probing, and I swear it probes a male. Easily an inch and a half into the tail. The thing is, there is barely a trace of spurs. Has anyone else seen this in a large adult male. Or is it normal for a female JCP to probe this deep.

Brian,
. Big JCPs probe pretty deep. 1.5 inches is only a little deeper than any of mine probed and with no visible spurs I would think yours very well could be a female. I had the same problem sexing my first "pair" of Diamond Pythons. They probed deep for females but not quite as deep as the book says for males. After a couple years with no courtship activity I borrowed a male and he courted both of them.
Good luck,
Jeff

>>I have an adult JCP, about 6 & 1/2 feet and hefty. I have had it for about 5 years without the interest to breed it, just always really liked JCP and busy enough breeding about 50 other colubrids and boas. Well, I'd like to try to breed it and I probed it, not a stranger to probing, and I swear it probes a male. Easily an inch and a half into the tail. The thing is, there is barely a trace of spurs. Has anyone else seen this in a large adult male. Or is it normal for a female JCP to probe this deep.

Do males and females have those spurs? I bought a jcp last year and was told it was a female. I have never had her sexed, just went by what the dealer told me, but she? does have little spurs. She/he is 5 foot now and eating medium rats.

The female can have very small spurs, but very small compared to a male. Even the one I am talking about has small spurs, just a trace. Nothing like what you would see on a male though. After Jeff's post, I'm convinced mine is a female.