how do we know the difference beetween a checkerd gartner snake female and a checkerd gartner snake male?

Question

our checkerd gartner snake had babies (she had 4) and we dont know if her babies are female or males!!

Answer 1

Here's a video that will show you how professionals check. A qualified reptile vet or experienced snake breeder can probe for you.

http://www.cornutopia.com/Corn%20Utopia%20on%20the%20Web/-%20Sexing%20corn%20snakes%20-%20intro%20to%20vid%20clips.htm

Answer 2

Obviously Jessica doesn't know much about snakes... garters are about the easiest snake to catch that there is, not counting the little subterrainean guys that all you've got to do is flip the right rock or log... And a little biology lesson to go with it... at the base of a snake's tail (yes, they have a head, a body, and a tail, not just a head and a tail) is the cloaca, or vent, you can tell where it is by the change in scale pattern on the belly... and just like with birds, sexual organs are housed inside the cloaca... during breeding season, when a male and female meet, the male everts his hemipenes (yes, not only do snakes have the assets to do the deed, males have TWO... even though only one is used in any given encounter... when your mate tends to wander off when she's done whether you've disengaged or not, sometimes injuries happen... nature has given snakes a backup...) Anyway, to the question at hand, the best thing to do would be to release at least the bred female back to where she was found, this way she can find all the food she needs of whatever kind she wants, rather than waiting to be fed by you and maybe not getting the nutrients she needs or the amount of food she wants... this will improve the health of her offspring, which, when they are born, will go about their business as snakes have done for as long as there have been snakes... Really, the best best thing to do would be to let them all go, since it sounds to me that you've got them all housed in the same tank, which is not good for them... not only could they be passing diseases back and forth, but it's not unheard of to check on your tank of garter snakes and realize that you've got a tank with one fat garter snake in it rather than a tank with multiple garters in it.

Answer 3

You don't without a vet, it needs a special tool. But first things first, its kinda horrible, but garter babies eat each other if one gets bigger than another, either seperate them all or watch very closely. I bred some a long time ago, started with 6 and ended with two because I was determined that they were company for each other, I majorly regret it now.

Answer 4

The long snake like thing hanging between their legs.

Answer 5

Look for little penors.