(intense music)
- And there you have it.
Verdi ate a little chick.
(whooshing)
Hey good morning everybody and welcome to the vlog.
How is your day going?
I hope it's absolutely incredible.
Tomorrow we actually travel down to Forrest's place
because we were picking up that collection of snakes.
That I'm excited to show you guys.
We're also gonna hang out and see like his monitor lizards
and all his cool stuff for a little bit.
So it's gonna be absolutely happy.
But today I have to feed Verdi, the green anaconda
and the truth be told she is still on live chicks.
That's all I can get her to eat.
I'll talk more about that a little bit
but the fact is the last few weeks
I haven't been able to get live chicks.
Well, I called over to Family Farm
that store that I love to go to
and they just got them in.
So, I'm gonna gear up before I do anything else,
head over there, grab a couple bales of hay
for the tortoises and a couple chicks for my girl, Verdi.
What do you say we hit the road?
What an absolutely gorgeous day here
and you can just almost tell Spring is here, you know.
The clocks turn back if you guys noticed,
the video is up an hour earlier.
That's because our clocks have changed
which means that it's later in the day
and I feel full of energy.
I love this time of the year
and I love the fact that we are probably
putting winter to rest or at least I hope so.
Regardless, let's go to one of my favorite stores.
Hopefully they have these chicks
and they said that they had them.
So Verdi can eat here a little bit later on
and who knows what else is at this store
because they have such goofy stuff.
So, let's go check it out.
("Ice Cream Social" by Dylan Sitts)
As soon as I walk in, I can hear the birds chirping.
I really should get like a sponsorship deal
because I show this place every time I come here.
But it is a great place.
I mean they have a little of everything.
I don't know I just love it.
Again, I've said it before I think I'm a farmer at heart
so I love this store
but I can hear the birds chirping in the distance,
so I'm gonna go find them.
("Ice Cream Social" by Dylan Sitts)
(chicks chirping)
Look at how cute they are.
Oh my gosh, they are so adorable.
I feel bad that I have to feed them off though.
I'm gonna get a couple of these for Verdi.
Got two little chickens.
I think they're called australorps.
I've got some heat lamps
that I could always use for replacements.
Some timothy hay.
You know honestly, I could probably find 100 other things
in this store I'd like to buy,
but I do have to get back to work
because I'll be in here all day messing around,
so let's head back to the shop.
("Ice Cream Social" by Dylan Sitts)
Back at the shop and you guys know
that number one I don't like live feeding.
I only feed snakes live that will not eat anything else.
Unfortunately, Verdi does only live
and she does only eat little chicks.
That's all I could do so I would rather her live and thrive
than not eat and maybe perish.
I'm not 100% sure.
Regardless, she is up here.
She's ready to go.
I have a feeling that she's gonna really be hungry
because again it's been a few weeks
since we've been able to get chicks.
We've tried some other meals.
She doesn't wanna eat them.
So we're gonna go ahead and feed her.
Like always I will never show feeding live.
I will show her eating
but I'm not gonna show the process for catching.
I just won't do that on the channel.
I hope you guys appreciate that and can respect my wishes
when it comes to that
but yeah she will eat a live chick.
Yes, she does eat chickens
and again I always prefer snakes to have more variety.
I don't think that chickens as a full time meal
is good for most snakes.
Weirdly enough, anacondas seem to do pretty good with it.
So certain snakes can do better.
I know anacondas who have been fed chickens
their whole life and seem to thrive.
If you did that with a boa or a Ball python
or maybe even a Retic, maybe they wouldn't do well.
So I do hope she eventually switches over to rodents
and I can switch things up
but for now I just wanted her to eat, get big
because she's absolutely incredible
and I cannot wait till she gets 10, 12, 15-foot long.
As for now let's go ahead and feed Verdi.
("Ice Cream Social" by Dylan Sitts)
And there you have it.
Verdi ate a little chick.
I'll tell you, I was so excited
because I'll be honest with you
I put it in there and for about a half an hour
she wasn't interested.
I thought to myself, is she on a hunger strike?
I want Verdi to get big
so it was really good when she finally ate it
but I tell you what one little chick
probably isn't gonna do the job.
So I'm gonna try to throw another one in there
and see if she'll eat that.
I tell you next week, if she's eating good,
I might actually try the choo-choo train trick,
where it's basically finishing up one chick
then choo-choo training a rat right behind it,
just to get a little bit more energy
and sometimes her eating a rat like that
might actually help her switch
but for this week we're gonna try one more chick.
Eric what what's going on?
You're supposed to be working with snakes.
What's this?
- I had to bring my dog in today.
This is Mary's dog.
This is little Cookie.
- [Brian] Cookie you're so cute.
- 15 this year. - 15?
- Can you believe that?
Human years.
- [Brian] Oh my gosh, it looks like
it's like only like three.
- Yeah, right?
This thing is older than a bag of rocks.
Smells old.
- [Brian] Oh Cookie you're so cute.
Looks like she doesn't see very well.
- No, she doesn't see or hear very well
but she's super sweet.
We love her to death and she had a little
vet appointment after work so.
- [Brian] She's okay though?
- She's okay, she had a leaky valve
which is common these kind of dogs like this
but what can you do?
- Well, keep us posted on Cookie, guys.
I just want to show you the cutest dog.
I love this. - So cute.
- I actually used to have a dog named Kramer
that was similar to Cookie.
That's why I fall in love every time I see Cookie, so.
And Phoebe's being good to her?
- Oh, they are like best buds.
Look at this, look at this right here.
They just kind of sniff each other.
- [Brian] Phoebe what are you doing?
- [Eric] They're good to go.
- [Brian] What are you doing, sweetheart?
- [Eric] She's used to big dogs.
We got a big lab at home, so they're fine.
- [Brian] And Phoebe loves all dogs.
Phoebe you're a good girl.
(laughing)
Okay, Cookie, well you do okay, bud, all right?
Hey Noah. - Yeah?
- [Brian] Did you see this?
- I did not, what are they?
- [Brian] They're Bella plushies.
- Oh my God, that's awesome.
- [Brian] You see the tag?
- What where?
The Reptarium, Bella, aw that's cool.
So are you gonna have like all the different animals?
- [Brian] Yeah, we're gonna do some different ones for sure
but that's pretty awesome, isn't it?
- Aw yeah, that is really cool.
- [Brian] I know, it is cool.
("Ice Cream Social" by Dylan Sitts)
Whoo doggie, Verdi just took chick number two
and she's got a huge lump in her right now.
So that is really good.
Like I said, next week, I think
I'm actually gonna try a chick
and then do that choo-choo train thing
because I think that can maybe wean her over to rodents.
I'm not 100% sure.
Hey, as long as she's eating.
She looks really good and like I had mentioned before,
some species of animals can
actually do much better on chicks.
Like mangrove snakes a lot of times will
live their whole life on chicks.
Ours eat rodent, thankfully
but the fact is is that I'm not terribly
concerned about Verdi.
I really just wanted her to feed which she is
so that is absolutely amazing.
And the truth is chicks are pretty widely available
this time of year so good news about Verdi.
Oh no the dynamic duo is back together.
- Oh yeah. - Noah is back from his trip.
His world travels over in the UK.
How did that go?
- It was actually a lot of fun.
I still have a video to edit
that it's probably gonna take a while.
There's a lot of footage but it was really cool.
- That's cool.
I know for me, I enjoyed watching along
because I almost felt like I was with these guys.
I certainly missed Noah, it's very big.
I know Eric did.
Eric was like heartbroken.
- Dude, I walked in everyday and I'm like,
no, no Noah.
- I know, he was commenting on everything.
He was like, I miss you so much, man.
- [Brian] Oh my God.
- Pretty embarrassing.
(laughing)
- Well it's good to have you back, so.
And as soon as he gets back, what does he do?
He's got some crazy video plans.
What in the world are you doing?
This is nuts.
- Yeah, I saw a video on Instagram
and I just want to kind of replicate it, you know.
So we're gonna do a little stunt with Argumus Prime.
We all know how crazy Argumus is when we feed him.
He's very active, jumps like crazy and stuff.
So, I thought he was the perfect candidate for this.
I'm gonna have him crawl up my leg
and then I'm gonna feed him while he's on my body.
- Absolutely incredibly.
Well, listen and that's shout-out to RealMowgli.
That's where you saw it.
RealMowgli had a cool video like this
but he did it with a relatively tame monitor.
You're doing it with--
- Not as big either, it was--
- Yeah, well listen, I wouldn't do it with Argumus so.
I'll put a link in the description to him.
We'll probably spend some time in the hospital.
Eric you're gonna do it too?
- Oh yeah, think of a good nickname.
No, heck no.
I ain't that dumb.
There's a rabbit on my face, that thing would grab me.
- Yeah, you got protection there and there.
- I know, a lot of protection here.
- Oh my God, all right guys.
Well, welcome back, Noah.
I'll put a link in the description.
I hope that he lives through this one.
- [Noah] Argumus.
Argumus, you almost had it.
Oh.
Oh!
- Super excited.
Mary just came and gave me a little bit
of update on Bert and Ernie, right here.
She said both of the heads ate today.
So she actually handed it to him and they both ate.
So that is a great sign.
So even though he certainly has a really bizarre
thing going on where you can
see his heart and stuff like that,
it's great to see that they are eating
and both heads are eating.
So I went to Mary earlier and I said,
Mary this is up to you.
She took great care of Rick and Morty.
So, I was like this is on you, you make sure they do well
and then she came and gave me the great news.
So, hey listen, that's one step closer
to potentially making this animal
make it to adulthood, fingers crossed.
I feel great about it now.
Like I mentioned earlier,
I'm excited to be heading to Forrest and Desiree's place
to go check out a bunch of cool animals
and pick up some animals
for the breeding season here at BHB.
So, I'm gonna go ahead and get out of here
a little early today and by early,
I mean it's only like 6 o'clock,
so it's still light outside.
Spring is finally starting to hit here.
So I'm gonna head home, enjoy myself.
Tomorrow we have a long drive to Indianapolis
and packing up all those snakes, oh my God.
It's gonna be amazing and you guys know,
I'm gonna bring you along on the journey.
It is definitely starting to warm up a little bit here.
It's chilly, don't get me wrong
but an absolutely beautiful day.
Still some ice on the pond.
Got a little thing going on over here
but I'm gonna be totally honest with you guys,
the pond is not looking so good.
Oh that doesn't look like clear water to me.
Looks like we're definitely gonna need my buddy Greg,
the pond guy, to come out
and do a little bit of repair on the pond this year.
Hopefully the fish are okay.
They should be fine because this is almost four foot deep
and it only freezes about maybe four or five inches.
So as long as it's not frozen solid, they're fine.
They made it through last winter
but looking forward to the rest of this going away.
Getting some warmth out here.
Oh my God, the yard needs some work, guys.
But I'm excited that Spring is about to get here
and warm weather is on it's way.
And with that said, guys, I'm going to go ahead
and take the rest of the evening off,
spend it with my family.
Again, tomorrow Lori and myself travel,
so it's gonna be a really long day
but it's gonna be an absolutely amazing day.
Get to share with you what we're buying
because it is absolutely amazing.
I cannot wait to share everything with you
and as for now I am gonna just wish you guys
an absolutely amazing day, evening,
whenever you happen to be watching.
As always you guys doing everything for me,
watching, supporting, sharing, all that stuff,
means the world to me and I truly love you so much.
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("Ice Cream Social" by Dylan Sitts)