Whole clutch of males?

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Has anyone ever run into the issue that the whole clutch turned out to be male? I recently hatched 2 clutches of Blue Eyed Lucy gene complex babies and gave them a month to grow. I then probed them and they all, 11 of them, seem to be male.

I could be doing this wrong, as this is the first set of babies I have probed myself, but the probe does go a good ways in on all of them. The incubator is kinda large, set to 89 with heat tape, fans, and a bunch of water bottles to help regulate temp. The incubator is out on an air conditioned porch set at 78 degrees.

My theory, if I haven’t probed these completely wrong, is that the temp has caused the eggs to be all male. That could have been in the tubs, inside the moms, but they have both cool (78) side and warm (88) side of the tubs.

So, anyone heard of 2 clutches coming out all male? Is it a temp issue? Or am I just a bonehead who can’t probe his hatchlings correctly? :rofl::rofl:

Thank you all!

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I’d find someone that can give you a second opinion on this. It’s not completely unheard of, but it is also easy to probe incorrectly.

Regarding temps, ball pythons don’t have their sex determined by incubation temp at all. They aren’t a species of animal that can be controlled that way. Otherwise, you’d see people purposely producing all females or all males for new and upcoming genes to try to get the genes out faster, or hit certain combos quicker

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Have you tried popping them instead of probing? I always found it so much easier to pop

But in answer to your question, I have had an eleven egg clutch where ten of eleven were male, ten of eleven were Lesser, and ten of eleven were RedStripe. The lone female was also the lone normal. Sometimes the odds-gods are just real jerks

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