- Hey, good morning everybody and welcome to the vlog.
I hope the start of your day is incredible.
I know mine is,
because we have something pretty special this morning,
and that's right,
our first little baby colubrid snakes are hatching.
You can see there's a few little heads
that are poking out right there.
And then these babies are little Albino Jelly Brooks kings.
These things are absolutely adorable.
This is like the true sense of an albino
when it comes to the Brooks kingsnakes.
Now, the real Albino Brooks kings
typically they were more like a yellowish look
and didn't have that pink, bright red eye look
that these guys have.
And look at this little feisty monkey here.
What are you doing little monkey?
Oh my God, Brooks kings are so adorable.
This was actually the third clutch laid,
so we have two other clutches that were laid before this,
but Brooks kingsnakes actually typically hatch
a little bit quicker at about 50, 52 days,
whereas the other clutches typically take about 60 days.
We have the first baby colubrids of the year, people!
That is pretty amazing.
And again, you can see all these eggs up top here.
All those eggs are gonna be hatching
over the next couple months,
so it's so exciting.
I cannot believe it.
Look how cute those little babies are.
And again, these things will probably shed
in the next week or so, start eating, and start rocking.
So I tell you what guys, game on.
We are starting to get baby pythons.
Now we're getting baby colubrids.
We've got baby geckos.
Oh my gosh, life of a snake breeder is amazing
so let's just have fun,
enjoy these little babies for a second,
push our problems aside,
and have an amazing day together.
A little later Bruce is actually
gonna feed the new croc monitor.
By the way, I said the other day
that we're gonna name it Baby Kush
because that's what Forest and everyone did,
and it was because of Steven Kush,
and Baby Kush because it was Steven Kush's baby,
but I think we might change the name guys
only because it's the weed reference, right?
A lot of people say kush,
and I don't want people to think
that we're naming it after weed.
So let me know in the comments
if you think we should name it Baby Kush or change it.
What do you think we should call it
if we don't call it Baby Kush?
Of course I'm gonna clear this with Desiree and Steven
before we actually change the name,
but I don't think they're gonna mind.
It's just that obviously we don't want
that type of a thing out there
if people are thinking we're naming it
after drugs or something like that.
(chuckles)
Regardless, we're gonna work with it a little later.
Let me know in the comments what you guys think about that.
Lots of snake eggs to cut this time of year,
you guys know this.
This is actually a normal ball python.
Just a normal female ball python,
but she's bred to a Banana Fire Spider ball python.
A lot of combinations.
Again, Banana, Banana Fire, all kinds of different stuff.
Let's go ahead and jump in.
Looks like we have two, four, six eggs to cut.
And today ...
By the way, tomorrow we have a banger clutch
I cannot wait to actually show you guys,
and hopefully we hit some odds on it.
That's tomorrow.
Today let's go ahead and cut the first egg.
And here we go.
Right off the rip, what do we have?
Looks like we have a Banana right off the rip.
What else do we have in here?
And it looks like maybe just
a normal Banana interestingly enough.
Doesn't look like Fire Banana.
Definitely doesn't have Spider.
I don't think this one had pastel in it,
which is good.
The normal Bananas are a little brighter
than the pastel Bananas, believe it or not.
They're both very, very beautiful,
but it looks like we hit a normal Banana for the first egg.
Let's go ahead and move on to egg number two.
And here we go.
Again, these clutches that are bred to normals
and stuff like that, it's just about producing
really cool offspring that we can put on the site
that entry level stuff, like this.
This is just a Spider ball python.
So again, no Banana and no Fire.
Just a Spider ball python.
And interestingly enough,
with male producing Bananas
all of the Bananas are typically males
and all of the non-Bananas are females.
So we can be pretty sure
that this is actually a female Spider ball python.
Now, every now and then it will jump,
so it's kind of sex-linked.
Every now and then you'll produce the opposite sex,
but the fact is that most of the Bananas
are gonna be male,
most of the non-Bananas are gonna be females,
which I find pretty interesting.
Egg number three, here we go.
And again, we're not gonna get anything
too insanely crazy,
but we're still gonna get a lot of cool stuff.
And hey, listen, cutting snake eggs
always is a lot of fun.
Weirdly enough, it looks like we have a normal ball python.
Doesn't look like a Fire to be at all,
so the odds on this clutch have been a little bit wonky
where we haven't had really combinations of anything.
We've had all single gene animals,
which is weird considering that we had
a three gene male breed.
But you never know what's gonna happen,
three more eggs to go.
And let's see if we'll start to get
some gene stacking in some of these snakes.
And look at this, weird.
Another Banana ball python.
Just another normal, so four eggs,
four single gene animals.
That's crazy odds in itself to be honest with you.
But again, Bananas are great.
People love Banana ball pythons
and we love producing them
'cause they're just that kind of cool
entry level beautiful snake.
You got to remember when Bananas were first being sold
they were $63,000.
Now they're like a couple hundred bucks,
so it's pretty cool that we've seen that evolution
from really high end all the way to pet trade,
and they are absolutely gorgeous.
Two eggs to go.
And here we go,
let's see if we'll get anything with some gene stacking
in this clutch or if it'll be all single genes.
And guess what guys?
We hit it.
We hit all of the genes actually.
This is actually a Fire, it's a Banana,
and it's a Spider.
It's weird that the first eggs were single genes
and then the fifth egg is an all gene animal.
Again, not a crazy all gene animal,
but still all three of the possible genes
that you could have,
so that's pretty cool.
Now, this last egg I can see
there's a little window in it right here.
You can actually see that there's a normal-ish
looking snake in there,
so it doesn't look like it's gonna be a Banana
but let's go ahead and just cut the last egg.
I like to end on a good note,
but hey, listen, I'm always happy to cut snake eggs
and I know you guys love it.
All right, and what do we have in the last egg?
Let's see, and it looks like this is a Fire Spider.
So it looks like a two gene animal, Fire and Spider.
So, all in all we did have some pretty cool stuff.
I'm glad that we had a bunch of Bananas in here,
at last a few Bananas,
because those are the animals that really people love
and stuff like that.
But hey, even producing a normal is really cool
because a lot of people want to start
with a normal wild type animal.
All in all, not a bad day of cutting eggs.
Like I said, tomorrow we've got a banger clutch
I cannot wait to share with you.
Down in the dungeon.
Guess what time it is?
♪ Egg time ♪
And we have a beautiful Mojave girl.
Really big girl too.
She's got one little egg out right here.
She was actually just bred to a Mocha male.
Mocha is in the blue eyed complex,
so we could get blue eyed leucistics in this,
all kinds of different combinations thereof.
But nevertheless, this is a really dark Mojave too,
and look at how beautiful that looks.
Hoo doggy.
Okay momma, let's see how many eggs you've got.
Looks like a beautiful clutch of eggs,
and she's just coiled around it absolutely wonderfully.
This would have been a good example
of maternal incubation here.
I know a few people have asked recently
why don't I maternally incubate
and what's the process of maternal incubation.
Literally with maternal incubation
those females are coiling the eggs just like that momma did,
and that's basically it.
You just leave them on that.
You give them fresh water.
They typically don't eat for the 60 days.
A lot of times they don't even come off the eggs for water,
but they're trapping the humidity
and by that cone wrapping around them,
and that also traps the temperature a little bit as well.
The reason I don't do it is it really beats the mom up.
For 60 days she basically isn't gonna eat,
she's not gonna drink hardly at all,
and you got to remember,
she's already been probably two and a half
to three months off of food while she was gravid,
so that's just a lot of energy that goes into it.
No real reason to do it.
We get a higher hatch rate
from actually artificial incubate,
and the female gets back onto food
within a week or so.
So we tried it last year with limited success.
I think we had an eight egg clutch,
two animals hatched out.
One was kinked.
The female was just beat up.
Didn't breed this year
because she had so much stress on her.
So for me, artificial incubation is the way to go.
Let's see how many eggs this girl had.
Two, four, six, eight, 10, 11 beautiful eggs.
I definitely don't think that the lid's
gonna fit on that one right there,
so we're gonna have to take some eggs apart,
spread these out, but absolutely gorgeous clutch of eggs.
Next up is actually this Pinstripe female right here.
Again, beautiful.
Really reduced beautiful animal right here.
She was actually bred to two males,
a Silver Streak Bamboo Woma,
as well as the Pastel Enchi Yellow Belly.
So we don't know who the father is.
What it was is the Silver Streak Bamboo Woma
bred earlier in the year,
and then stopped breeding.
And we just had one breeding
with the Pastel Enchi Yellow Belly
just to make sure we had fertile eggs.
But look it, it's a really nice clutch.
She's not a really big female
and they're really beautiful sized eggs.
We're just gonna peel these guys off the paper
and we're gonna go ahead and get these in the egg box
and we can count these up. We've got two, four, six, eight.
As I've been mentioning,
you can have dual fathered clutches.
One father can actually have the entire clutch,
one father can actually have half the clutch,
the other father the other half the clutch,
or it could go either way, right?
The only thing is is that each individual egg
can only be fathered by one father.
So I don't know who the dad is.
We're gonna find out.
That's what's making this year
kind of even more exciting
is because we have a lot of dual father clutch
and we never know what we're gonna hatch.
Regardless, in 57 days we're gonna find out.
Guess what guys?
The continuation of a crazy vlog,
we have a quick unboxing for you.
(groovy music)
And here we go!
(crashing) (splashing)
I'm gonna have to use some scissors here
because there's zip ties on these buggers
and I don't have my clippers.
Let's see if we can get this and see what's going on.
It actually, to be honest with you,
is just one type of snake,
but it's a type of snake that I love
and I got recently,
and whenever I get an opportunity to get more
I'm gonna get more.
Oh my gosh, these things are gorgeous!
And you guys will know exactly when I pull them out
what they are.
Oh my God, these ones are beauties too.
These are some more true red-tail boas.
These are Guyana red-tailed boas.
Again, you know I've had Surinames,
I've had Peruvians, Guyanas.
We just got some Guyanas,
but my friend had some more.
Look at the stripe on the one.
Hoo, I tell you what, that is gorgeous.
I tell you what, they are amazing.
And again, they don't come around that often,
so whenever I get the opportunity
I'm gonna pick them up, because again,
this is probably the last ones.
Oh my gosh, look at the tail on this one right here.
Oh my goodness gracious.
That is unbelievably clean.
And as these get older they're gonna get
more and more red, deep reds with some maroons,
and oh my gosh, these things are incredible.
Again, usually I only get one crack
at Guyana red-tailed boas each year for babies.
This time we've got two cracks at it.
So like I said, I was like, "I'm getting them, man.
"There's no way I'm not gonna get them."
So we actually ended up getting 18 babies,
so it looks like maybe six babies per bag.
I'm gonna look at all three bags of them
just to see if there's something cool,
just like that one had that amazing stripe on it.
Let's see what else is going on in this one here.
And let's see, these are nice well started ones too.
Sometimes I get babies in that are super, super fresh.
These ones look like they have a handful of meals in them.
Oh my gosh, they look incredible.
Again, I just love red-tailed boas.
I've mentioned before that my first ever
real true red-tailed boa,
and you got to remember there's a difference between
the common red-tailed boas
that are really just common boas
that everyone calls red-tailed boas,
and the actual true red-tailed boas.
They're different species, right?
These are Constrictor constrictor,
instead of Constrictor imperator.
Look at the tail on this.
The first true red-tail I ever had was a Guyana.
It was a wild caught adult.
It was mean as heck.
It bit the heck out of me so many times.
It was just a really nasty animal,
but I still fell in love with it
and I've loved them ever since.
So even though the Surinames and Peruvians
get a little bit bigger
and are a little bit more sought after even a little bit,
like the Guyanas aren't quite as expensive,
I still like the Guyana red-tailed boas
because of that kind of mastalgia.
I also like the fact that their background color
has a kind of maroon look to it
rather than a silver or tan look, so they're amazing.
One more bag.
Again, I just love these guys so much.
I'm so happy that I've been able to get these
because again, they don't come around too often.
Oh my gosh.
Oh, gosh, they look so good.
Here we go.
Oh my gosh, wow.
I tell you what, there is just something ...
Just again, that tail right there,
it just gives you an idea how beautiful
true red-tailed boas are.
Absolutely amazing.
Again, I'm sure that these are the last red-tailed boas
I'm gonna be able to get
all the way until usually about January
is when they're being produced.
The red-tailed boas are typically
a little bit different season than the Colombians,
although these ones actually are about in the same range.
They're obviously some really late babies.
But man, I tell you, those are absolutely gorgeous.
It's cool to have one more batch of boas
before the end of the year.
Then we'll have to wait again till next year
before we have red-tails,
but we will have a bunch of Colombian boas
throughout the summer.
But nevertheless, just thought I'd do
a quick unboxing for you guys.
- You guys all know that we got my boy,
the crocodile monitor over here.
I wanted to let you guys know
that I am going to start right away on the ball training,
obviously for a big safety reason.
I don't want him hurting anybody, especially myself.
I want to be here, keeping on every single day.
I don't want to sit there,
spend too much time at the hospital.
So that being said, ball training's going to be day one,
and that's what we're doing right now with you guys.
I've been thinking about it
and I don't quite want to introduce a blue ball to him.
I actually want to do a red ball.
A lot of what I thought about was,
especially when cleaning and stuff like that,
some of our utensils have those colorations.
I don't want him thinking that we're trying to feed him
if I walk in there just trying to clean some poop.
So that being said, I'm about to go get it started.
What my basic plan is is I actually just want
to sit right there in that corner. I want to sit over there
and just wait for him to come to me.
I don't want to force the agenda or anything like that,
but I still want to introduce that ball.
So what your basic idea is to keep him
still at a distance from me at the same time.
But I feel like if I walk in there
standing over him or standing up to him
that actually is an imposing figure,
and I don't want to be imposing,
I just want to be a part of it.
I just want to be in the process.
I want to be involved,
but I don't want to interfere.
So that's basically what we're gonna do,
so let's get it started.
It's gonna be fun.
(groovy music)
So largely what I think is good here
is that he's getting this connection with me.
He's watching me, seeing what I'm doing.
As long as I don't make crazy, crazy sudden movements ...
He's still feeding,
and I don't want him getting much closer than that.
I still don't want him to think I'm a tree
or anything like that,
so I don't want him to figure out what's going on.
It's important I don't reach for him,
I don't grab for him, or anything like that
because he doesn't know what Elvis does,
that this means not food or not ...
This is an incredibly good reaction.
This is what I want him to do.
I want him to look at me
and I want him to think that things are done.
As long as I make things calm, I leave calmly,
there's no reason for him to think
there's ever anything bad.
Dude, that was awesome.
That was pretty, pretty darn cool.
I'm not gonna lie,
I wasn't expecting him to be that close to me.
I thought it'd be like when we first gave him
that first additional rodent
where he just sort of like a little timid,
but once he got going it was like man,
just like a lot of the other monitors in the past,
except with clear calculation.
He's watching every little movement.
And he's not just watching the food,
he's watching what I'm doing with that food.
It's clear I'm trying to coax him one way,
and he's like, "No, I'm not going that way.
"You're going where I want you to go."
And that's really, really incredible.
He's already figuring us out.
I've only done it one time.
This is my first time feeding him.
That's insane that he would just go,
"No, nah, I'm not playing your game bro.
"I know this."
And it's just too, too cool to see him do this.
I can't wait to show you guys
what more we can do with this guy.
- Baby colubrids are hatching, pythons are hatching,
it is heating up here.
It is so absolutely ... It's the best time of the year
to be a snake breeder for sure.
Just awesome with everything.
If you guys enjoyed this,
here's a playlist of a bunch of baby snakes hatching
if you guys want to watch.
There will be a lot coming, I can promise you that.
Some cool egg cutting coming too,
so it's gonna be amazing.
Up here you can subscribe to my podcast channel
called Checking In.
Please support that if you don't mind.
On this side you can subscribe to this vlog channel.
Turn your post notifications on.
Have an absolutely wonderful day.
Remember, be kind to someone,
and I promise I'll see you tomorrow.