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After all this time...i ask male or female?

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Cursed_Witch

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Some of you recognize me and probably remember my corn Stewie.... when he was just a baby i posted pictures of him and i was told he was male *of course that was not certain* but two nights ago he shed and i remember i was reading Kathy Love's book about the male and female sexes and for some reason... looking at Stewie's tail... he seems female..

Can anyone tell if he's a she? or he's still a he?

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And i also attached pictures of his last shed to show that his neck injury is recovering pretty nicely except he is still 33 inches for a 2 year old.

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You'll have to get Stewie probed to find out for sure...

When I tried to figure out if my girl Maizie is a boy or a girl, I initially looked at the pictures in Kathy Love's book where she shows the ventral sides of males & females, and even clearly labeled, and after too much analyzing, they all looked the same to me. So, I took Maizie to my local herp society's mtg & had her probed...twice, just to confirm. :p (She was so happy about it that she musked everywhere!) That was the only way I'd know for sure...

Did you get Stewie from a breeder? If so, ask him/her. Or, if you know of a reptile shop nearby, take Stewie in (call first, though, just to be sure...a shop not too incredibly far from me said that they'd help me out, if need be...and help me select a mate for her, as well!). Or, go to a herp vet...or...see if someone from here lives close enough to you so that you could get Stewie probed...

Good luck! :cheers:
 
(This is probably one of the big reasons why I now buy snakes from breeders -- not that I've purchased so many, but when/if I do buy -- is that the snakes come already sexed! It's great! I still have no idea about the big guy I adopted...I just call him a him, easy enough. Once, when transporting* him and another snake that I know to be male, I put the two in their separate containers, and then the male -- whose container was smaller -- into the way larger bin that held my unsexed snake. The unsexed snake was just as interested in my male as when I did that same routine a different time by placing the unsexed snake by a female snake...perhaps my unsexed snake is a hermaphrodite. :p Who knows!)

Again, good luck!

*Just so I don't get lashed for any attempts at co-habitation...I was carrying the two containers, and just so that the smaller one wouldn't fall, I stashed it inside the bigger container -- a 32 qt Sterilite, I believe -- but in no way could either snake get to the other. :)
 
Stewie "looks" female to me. BUT visual sexing isn't always reliable. Sometimes it's pretty darned obvious, but that isn't the case here. If you're not going to breed him/her, it doesn't matter anyway. She won't be offended if you refer to her as a "he". ;) I'd never bother having a snake probed if I wasn't going to breed it. I have a couple of ambiguous kingsnakes for which I have no breeding plans. Their names are Daisy and Kal. If they turn out to be a male and female (respectively), oh well!
 
Cegninedorf said:
This is probably one of the big reasons why I now buy snakes from breeders -- not that I've purchased so many, but when/if I do buy -- is that the snakes come already sexed! It's great!
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Don't assume that breeders don't mistakes too. At least one of my corn snake "heroes" admits to being terrible at popping, and it takes a bold person to probe a 6g hatchling.
 
You really should have it probed. You can sometimes get it right by looking at the tail, but it's very subjective and it's near 100%. Try looking up a herp vet or a local breeder and they can probe it for you and show you how. It's very easy, but is one of those things that really needs to be shown/explained in person to learn.
 
Roy Munson said:
Don't assume that breeders don't mistakes too. At least one of my corn snake "heroes" admits to being terrible at popping, and it takes a bold person to probe a 6g hatchling.
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I prefer to use the word "trust" as we all know what it means when you "assume," thus I try not to so I let the person with more experience take the lead on this one. ;) To err is human...and I can't imagine probing a hatchling!
 
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