- Hey, good morning everybody and welcome to the vlog.
Of course, today we're gonna just be feeding
some of the snakes over here,
as well as a bunch of other stuff,
snake eggs, all kinds of stuff like that.
But we are going to start with my girl "Ivy",
and you know she loves pigs, so let's just go ahead
and see if we can get her over here.
What I'm gonna try to do is see if
I can get her over here first.
Come on, girl.
Come on, come on over here.
Over here, right over here.
Come on, here you go.
All the way over here.
Here you go, sweetheart.
Here you go "Ivy".
Here you go, come on girl.
Come on, you got it, you got it, you got it.
There you go, there she goes, she's got it.
Talk about what a monster she is,
she is such a great snake, I love that.
And it's a great way to start the morning,
don't you guys think?
Let's just go ahead and push our problem side,
feed some snakes, collect some snake egg,
have some fun with animals and just
have a great day together.
All right, ball training number three with "Night Furry",
this time I'm gonna see if I could get it
to not go actually attack the ball.
Come on, you wanna come out?
See if it follows the ball.
Yes, it does.
Now I'll offer it food.
There you go.
Perfect, that's exactly what I was hoping.
See, it didn't follow the pig in this hand,
it followed the ball in this hand.
That is exactly what I want to do,
so this is going even better than I could expect.
My maniac "Casper" here, I don't know what's gonna happen.
You never know with this guy, so I keep my face
out of the view here, come on, "Casper".
Come on buddy.
I hate where he's at right now.
Gosh, it's such a scary thing.
Ah, "Casper" come and--
Whoa there!
Tell you what, you just never know when that animal
is gonna miss and just launch right past you
and grab your arm, so that actually went very, very well.
And that's one of the things about opening up,
the fact that we just wanna get
these animals back socialized.
We've been trying to take them out a little bit
more often the last few days to get them back
in the routine, it's a little bit different.
Even "Perdida" isn't handling exactly the same,
so it's important for us to get back opened up,
not only because we wanna be open and we enjoy all of it,
but the animals their self need to kind of
be back to socializing and habituation.
I'm so happy that my girl "Sunfire" here loves pigs,
because again, she's gonna really start to jump
in size now that she loves to eat these guys.
Here you go girl.
There you go, there you go.
There it is, there she is.
Again, beautiful snake right here.
And this is that kind of snake with the Sunfire,
the Super Tiger, that actually as they get bigger,
they get brighter and brighter.
So now that she's eating bigger meals
and she's gonna grow quicker, she's gonna get
even more beautiful every single time
she gains 10 pounds, 20 pounds, three foot,
it's gonna be a gorgeous snake.
So egg cutting season is coming up,
and Jay and myself had this kind of plan,
really Jay came up with it, I just followed through with it.
And we're trying to take the egg cutting
to like the next level, I mean something
that is gonna be really radically different
than we've done before, and this is going to
be part of it right here.
You just wait til you see this, you're gonna be like,
"What in the world is that?"
And I hope that the vision we have turns out
to be half as cool as we think it's gonna be.
Yeah, and this is the case.
Look at this, this is the weirdest thing
you're gonna ever see.
This believe it or not is the strangest camera lens
you'll ever see, that's right guys,
that is a camera lens.
- [Jay] That's crazy.
- And we're hoping that we can get
some really incredible macro shots
of egg cutting with this lens.
Really (mumbles), do you see my lens?
- Great.
- (chuckles) It's a camera lens, isn't that thing cool?
- Yeah.
- (laughs) So, yeah.
So I tell you what, we're gonna try to work
and maybe tomorrow we'll actually shoot,
not some egg cutting cause we don't have any eggs to cut,
but they are coming like in 10 days, our first egg cutting
and the idea of working with this should be pretty wild.
But maybe tomorrow we can do a little kind of demo
of what we're thinking about with some cool animals.
This can take some of our videography to the next level,
it's the most bizarre lens I've ever seen,
but we're pretty excited about it.
(upbeat music)
I have a few clutches the Ball pythons today,
it is heating up here which is amazing.
This is actually a Lemon blast
that is doublehead (mumbles) and Lavender,
bred to a double head lavender snow.
So we could get some lavender snows,
we could get some pinstripe lavender snows.
We could get some lemon blasts lavender snow .
Looks like she's got a beautiful clutch of eggs right here.
Woo, mama!
She is upset.
So okay, we gotta be careful just so she doesn't fight us.
It's okay mama, we're just gonna get
off your eggs real quick, you're all right.
Ooh, and she is definitely protective.
It's okay, mama.
It's all right, it's all right.
It's--
Ooh, she is upset.
Whoa, she is something else!
Oh gosh!
She's probably the most upset mama that I've had all year.
Come on, mama, you're all right.
Here we go, whoa!
She just got me, she got me.
Okay, we got these eggs, we get these all up.
We're definitely gonna have to candle
some of these eggs cause she's going crazy.
Whoa! Gosh!
Woo, all right.
I got the last egg out, we'll get mum in there,
we'll get her cleaned up and get her ready to go.
But you know, she doesn't look bad.
She doesn't look like she laid such a huge clutch
and she certainly did.
And the thoughts of what could potentially hatch
out of this clutch is pretty amazing.
So this is two, four, six, eight, nine,
good eggs, no slugs, woo!
(mumbles) that's a good way to start the day.
This next clutch is just a big pastel female,
she's really a beautiful animal,
but she was bred to a wickedly beautiful male.
This black pewter lesser Cyprus, so we can again
get all kinds of stuff like super pastel,
black pastel, lesser cypress (mumbles)
and in combinations all there off.
So that is gonna be really cool.
So let's see how many eggs she has.
All right, mama, let's go ahead and get you off.
Ooh, it's a nice big old pile of eggs right there.
Good job mom, you did so well.
She's actually pretty good, look she's getting
a little bit...
she's getting a little feisty on me here.
We'll go ahead and get her back.
It's okay mama, she's like,
"Why'd you take my eggs?"
And I've explained this before and I'll continue to explain,
it's actually better to take the eggs because
the female can rebound quickly, get back onto food,
if I maternally incubate, she's gonna stay
in that clutch for 60 days, not eat, hardly drank,
get really beat up, also we have a higher percentage
of hatch rate when we artificially incubate,
so it's better for the mom and it's better for us.
We actually maternally incubated, last year
we had six eggs and we only had one baby hatch out
of the six eggs, so let's go ahead and get these eggs
in here and see how many she actually had.
Really beautiful clutch, two, four, six,
seven gorgeous eggs, and again,
some combinations could be amazing.
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Next up is my girl "Perdida",
and as I'm feeding "Perdida" here...
Hey baby, what are you doing?
You want some food?
Don't come that way, there!
Oh, she's such a sweetheart.
Can't you see that?
"Moomoo" is getting big for a cow retic, that's for sure.
Come on girl, (mumbles)!
That was a little close, she had me in a bad spot.
All right, she just barely got that rat,
but she is getting really big.
I have a feeling that she's going to be a really,
really big cow retic because for a year old
she's already like seven, seven and a half foot long.
So she is a monster for sure and she is gorgeous.
It's crazy to think that we've been closed for nine weeks,
I think when this whole thing started,
I really thought it was gonna be a two
or three week thing, we'd be back opened up
and here we are nine weeks in, it's just crazy
to think it's been such a long time.
These animals are going to go crazy when people come in,
they miss it so much, we miss it so much.
In the meantime, we just been babying these animals,
feeding them even more than usual.
They're getting so big, people are gonna be surprised
when they come in after 10 weeks of not seeing
these animals, how much most of these have grown.
So "Ivy" just crushed her first one,
so I'm gonna go ahead, offer her her second pig.
Here you go "Ivy", come on girl, come on over.
All right, yeah, she's got it!
(upbeat music)
Guess what time it is?
It is Colubridae egg collecting time,
and this first girl is actually an Anaconda hognose snake.
You know, I love Western hognose snakes
and look at how beautiful that girl is right there.
Of course this is an Anaconda,
it's an incomplete dominant animal
that has the spots kind of like an Anaconda, right?
That's why they called it, and if you breed two
of these together, which we did on this particular one,
you can get what they call a Superconda,
which is a hognose that has no pattern whatsoever,
so fingers crossed that that happens.
Let's just see what goes on with the eggs here,
okay, yeah, we've got some nice little eggs over here,
not bad, and I've told you before that I use
the (mumbles) when I'm incubating hognose eggs,
just because I like the way that it works
a little bit better.
So we're just gonna pull these eggs out,
I always candle hognose snakes,
because they don't clump together,
you wanna make sure that the embryos are up top.
Again, I talk about the fact that
that actual outside layer of shell is much thinner
with a hognose, very, very thin, almost paper-like thin.
It looks like maybe a couple of little sluggers here,
these two eggs don't look too good, and it looks like
we've got five good eggs right here,
so we'll cancel these guys up and these guys hatch
in about 50 days so hopefully we'll get some Supercondas.
And just so that you guys understand,
this is a Superconda here, basically a pattern.
This one has a little bit of striping to it,
but it's a beauty isn't that?
That thing is so cool.
So this is the super version of the Superconda,
and by the way, this is the dad to this clutch.
So theoretically, three out of four of these eggs
could be Supercondas.
This is our second Nelson's clutch of the year,
and this is actually just a hat albino
that's bred to an albino.
So half the baby should come out albino,
half of them come out--
Holy moly, mother of pearl, that is a lot of eggs.
Oh my gosh!
Usually six or eight eggs is what you can get
with these guys, I just--
Look at this, are you kidding me right now?
That is a lot, a lot of eggs for a Nelson's milksnake.
(mumbles), and it looks like she just kind of rolled around
and just laid him there as she was gone,
this is a crazy clutch, that is probably
the largest Nelson's clutch that I've ever produced.
And again, half of these are gonna be albino,
so, oh my God, I love this.
Two, four, six, eight, 10, 12, 13 eggs.
Again, six to eight is typical, 13, that's ridiculous.
Last Colubridae clutch of the day, and this right here
is actually that beautiful Mexican black king snake.
Now this is one of our slightly older ones,
so we've had a couple of clutches earlier this year
that were from younger females, they typically
don't have as many eggs, so let's hope this girl
has a little bit more eggs, hard to say,
I'll take a look in a second,
but look at how crazy cool that snake is.
I mean, there is no doubt that Mexican black king snakes
are one of the most beautiful and certainly
one of the most sought after Colubridaes.
Not only are they gorgeous,
but they're also extremely docile,
which makes them really good animals.
Good job, mama, you did good.
We'll get some water, get her all cleaned up.
And by the way, people ask all the time
why there's a shed in there as well?
So we leave the shed in just so that we know
that she's due to lay eggs, we put a tag on
and we take the water out and then we clean everything up,
get water and take the shed out and stuff like that.
I know it's a kind of weird thing, but it's just
the process that we've been using for 30 years
and so we always do it.
Regardless, not a huge clutch of eggs but very big eggs.
I was expecting a few more eggs but I'll be honest with you,
these babies are gonna hatch out monstrous
and I'm okay with that.
Just two, four eggs, that's it, no slugs,
way to wrap up the Colubridae egg date, that was awesome.
You know, my big girl "Cupcake", I really thought
that she would potentially grab it before,
but to be totally honest with you,
the way she's looking lately, with her
kind of aggressive feeding and stuff like that,
as well as the fact that she doesn't look quite as thick,
I have a feeling that she was kind of almost
in an ovulation stage and that she kind of sucked
her follicles back up, I have an ultrasound here,
but this section here was really big
and now it's kind of deflated a little bit.
Not to mention she went from eating like just one rat,
to now she'll be crushing three, four rats a week.
So pretty sure we missed this year with "Cupcake",
that's okay, I'm just happy cause she is
a brilliantly beautiful snake.
The last couple of times I've offered "Sunrise",
she actually didn't take the pig.
She just crawled up to it and ate it
rather than taking it out of my hand.
So I'm really not sure what's gonna happen today,
so let's just go ahead and give it a shot.
And we'll do the same thing, if she doesn't take it,
then we'll just leave it on the ground.
Do you wanna take it girl?
Yeah, I know she's hungry.
Yup, I think she's gonna do the same thing
where she doesn't even wanna take it and she's just--
oh, she surprised me and she grabbed it.
So just when I thought she wasn't gonna take it,
she grabbed it, so there he goes, "Sunrise".
she is getting so big.
So obviously this is the lens
and the kind of rig that we're gonna be doing.
Jay is gonna be kind of using a slider here
to kind of pull out, and the whole idea is to have
an even more immersive experience with egg cutting
so that you literally feel like your involved
in the cutting itself.
So when I cut that egg, you're gonna feel
like you're right involved with it.
So Jay is gonna have some fun with Bruce over here,
and they're gonna feed some tarantulas
and you'll get an idea of what this lens can actually do.
(upbeat music)
As always, it's fun feeding all my snakes
and certainly my girl "Ivy".
I mean, she is absolutely incredible.
If you enjoyed this video, right here is the playlist
of me feeding a ton of snakes, you could watch hours
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