This guy is a proven breeder. Brother to the great yellow male at top of this forum. Thing is he was supposed to be a she. Sort of like that Lou Reed song. So I may trade this guy for a nice female from someone. Let me know. Thanks for looking. Mike.......... Chris' Colubrids
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Kind of orange male
pikiemikie
Jul 31, 2005 08:54 PM
Replies (7)
vichris
Jul 31, 2005 10:32 PM
How that sort of stuff happens. I have two that were supposed to be females that turned out to be males.
I'm keeping the Milk Snake Phase but needing to trade or sell the leonis.
RussBates
Aug 02, 2005 08:19 AM
Are those thayeri you just purchased from Dave W. that were missexed?
Russ
pikiemikie
Aug 02, 2005 02:48 PM
Russ, no, I did'nt get any from Mountain kings.................From someone else..........it happens.........just have an extra male I don't need........Chris' Colubrids
vichris
Aug 02, 2005 05:38 PM
Russ,
No they are ones a friend missexed back in 2003. I should have double checked them myself but did'nt until this past summer. I hatched them out myself and I held them back thinking they were females.
Chris G.
RussBates
Aug 02, 2005 05:56 PM
that is good to know. The hybino sonorans I got from Dave W. bred immediately and just laid a clutch of 8 eggs. The bad news is she held back 2 eggs and after five days of waiting I finally got a needle and sucked them out. Man I hope the lotto is in my favor and I get a blizzard out of that breeding first go around.
Any thayeri yet?
Russ
vichris
Aug 02, 2005 11:38 PM
Hope you get a blizzard too Russ. That would be awesome. Man you snake room is really gonna smell great LOL.
My thayeri eggs are still about 12 days out. I've started snorting meth and shooting heroin to deal with the anxiety and I'm wearing Depends too. Other wise life is good.
Chris G.
jlassiter
Jul 31, 2005 10:52 PM
I hear that happening all the time...."My female is actually a male."
You never here of a male actually being a female, because it is obvious when a male is a male.......
When my offspring hatch I "pop" them immediately....The males are 100% obvious. The females are not so obvious and actually cannot be "popped" so I put them aside and try and pop them a few more times....If no hemipenes are exposed after a few tries it is marked female....If I am not for certain (which I am all the time) I probe the so called females to make sure. 99.9% of the time they ARE females.....
Now I have popped them initially females and a couple days later they expose a hemipene when I re-pop them...And that is why they get re-popped....
I have yet to sell mis-gendered snake....I hope not....LOL
John Lassiter
