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- Hey, good morning everybody and welcome to the vlog!
Today is the day that so many of you guys
have been asking for.
That's right, we are gonna go ahead
and cut our first ball python clutches of the year!
I am so excited!
I have just been brimming with excitement,
I could hardly sleep last night.
We actually have our first clutch is a pinstripe,
it's bred to a pastave orange dream
which is a pastel, mojave, and an orange dream,
so a four banged animal.
The second clutch is actually a bumblebee,
which is a pastel and a spider,
and is bred to a woma lesser pin.
So there is five genes in that one.
So it's gonna be absolutely amazing.
What do you say we just jump into this
and do the first snake egg cutting of the season?
Oh, and by the way, before we get started,
you might notice that I used to cut eggs in the incubator,
we decided to make things a little bit more
high end now that Jay is over here.
Yeah, so first off, we have a camera above head,
we're gonna have a camera over here,
we got a camera that's on a slider that's moving,
we got Jay with the big old beastie over here,
so hopefully this egg cutting will be better than ever.
Here we go guys, I am just so excited about this.
Again, a pinstripe female bred to a pastave orange dream.
You ready to go?
First egg, oh my God, I can't believe I'm doing this.
All right, first egg of the year, here we go.
What do we have in this egg?
Let's see.
Let's see, it looks pretty.
Whatever it is looks pretty.
Oh, yeah, well this is definitely a lemon blast
and judging by the kind of cleanness and stuff like that,
I would say it's probably a orange dream.
So it looks like you have a lemon blast orange dream.
That orange dream kind of brightens things up,
reduces all of the clutter and kind of dirtiness.
So that looks a lemon blast orange dream right off the rip.
So that's not bad, three of the four genes together,
I'm pretty happy with that, let's move on to the second egg.
Okay, here we go.
Oh my God, are you guys excited as I am
about egg cutting season?
Oh, we have so many clutches this year,
it's gonna be absolutely incredible.
Here we go, what do we got in the second clutch?
Second egg, second egg, second egg.
What do we have?
Ooh, this looks really nice.
Whoo, I tell you what guys.
I am almost positive,
I'm just gonna poke this around just a little bit
to see.
I am almost positive we may have hit
all four genes with that one!
That almost looks like a pastave pin orange dream.
Oh my God, that is gonna be gorgeous.
I'm like 99% sure that we hit it in that clutch, awesome!
All right, egg number three, can it get any better?
All right, egg number three,
I don't know but this is crazy.
All right, well so far this year has started out
really, really good.
Just gonna go ahead and get this egg started here,
sometimes the eggs are a little bit thicker than others.
This is a fresh razor blade
so it's never been used for anything else.
And again, okay.
Right, oh my gosh, we are doing good so far, guys.
This is just a pinstripe,
but it's a pinstripe orange dream for sure.
I mean it's absolutely, you can see right in here
how it's super clean, kind of a little reduced,
absolutely an orange dream.
Oh my God, so far so good.
This is amazing, on to egg number four, whoo!
Let's go, let's keep this going.
Oh, my gosh, and again what I'm doing
is just really going over that top layer right there.
Okay, well this is interesting.
This is either a normal pastel or a pastel orange dream.
I'm not 100% sure.
I gotta say it's probably just a normal pastel.
So this is kind of the first miss of the year
you know, if you wanna call it a miss.
It's just a one gene animal, you know.
When you have four genes mixed
you don't really wanna get too many one gene animals,
but that's okay.
It's gonna happen, so far the odds have been amazing
so we still have three more eggs in this clutch.
All righty, here we go, let's see what we have here.
Come on, keep this going, guys.
All right, what do we have here?
Ooh, okay this is actually really cool.
This is actually a pinstripe mojave
and it looks like there is a good chance that
this is an orange dream too 'cause it is a lot cleaner
but it's at least a mojave pinstripe.
Which is called a jigsaw, actually.
So, wow, that's actually really beautiful and again,
it might be orange dream, we'll have
to wait till it climbs out, sheds,
and then we'll get a better idea, two more eggs.
All right, here we go, right on top this egg, right on top.
Here we go, what do we got, what do we got, what do we got?
Ooh!
Yeah!
Another one.
This one is again, looks like all four genes!
The pastave pinstripe orange dream,
or what they would call a pastel jigsaw orange dream.
Wow.
That is a stunner, whoo!
Oh, my God, that is awesome.
So far so it looks like we've got
two of the four gene animals, one last egg.
Come on, you guys know that I love to end the last egg
on a good note so let's hope this is something really cool.
Oh, my God, what a way to start the year.
Okay, all right, this is actually a pastave.
Also looks like an orange dream,
so it looks like probably five, maybe even six
of these animals were orange dreams.
That is incredible.
So, so far, so good.
Oh, my God, there it is.
The first clutch of the year, guys.
We got one more clutch to cut.
Here we go, again, this is a bumblebee
which is pastel spider bred to a woma lesser pinstripe
so all kinds of different things,
who knows what we're gonna get?
Let's do egg number one, here we go.
Here we go, come on!
Boy, I hope I have the odds that I had
in that first clutch because, whoo doggy, that was amazing.
So what do we have?
Ooh, this is a neat looking-- what in the world is that?
What in the world?
What?
Oh, okay, I'm seeing a little bit more.
At first I was like, what is that?
Okay, this looks like a lot of those genes.
I mean, this is definitely a pastel woma lesser pin.
I don't think there's any spider in it,
so it looks like it's just a pastel woma lesser pinstripe.
Really pretty and really faded.
Oh, my God!
That's a gorgeous one right there,
I'm super happy about that.
Let's move on to the second egg and see what we get there.
Wow, that was really,
that was a surprise, how beautiful that animal is.
Okay, second egg.
Okay, okay, interesting.
This actually just looks like a pastel lesser.
So nothing too major, just two genes.
But still, very beautiful.
This egg is kinda up like this,
so the cutting is a little bit harder on these eggs
because when they're laying flat
you can cut all the way around.
When they're laying kinda up like this one,
a little bit more difficult.
But we're gonna do the best we can do
to see if we can't see inside this egg
and get a good idea of what is hatching here.
And again, cutting eggs at this state
is not a problem at all.
Okay, so what we have here is actually
a woma pinstripe, so another two genes.
So the first one looked like we had four genes,
the last two eggs, only two genes.
So, we're not on exactly on a roll
but hey, we got two more eggs to go
and we all know that clutches can turn around like that.
That's the way the odds work.
Sometimes the odds gods are on your side,
sometimes they're not.
So I never get too high or too low on any one egg
or even one clutch, for that matter.
And guess what?
Another woma pinstripe.
So we've got two woma pinstripes, all right.
One last egg, come on guys,
this is the last egg I'm cutting for today
so I'm hoping this is gonna be good.
I wanna end on something outrageous,
so come on guys, let's go, let's go.
All right, what do we have?
Okay, looks like another pastel lesser.
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So guys, that's just the way these things go.
You know, sometimes you hit it, sometimes you don't.
That first clutch, we killed the odds,
the second clutch we did really good on the first egg
and then four eggs were all just double gene animals.
But still, really beautiful.
So I'm excited, these guys should be out of the eggs
within the next, probably two or three days,
and as a matter of fact, hopefully by next week
I can have the live camera so you guys can go over
to reptile live cams where the Bella cam is now
and you'll be able to actually watch
these 24 hours a day hatching.
And we're gonna try to keep that going all summer long
with coluber clutches, with ball python clutches,
maybe geckos, who knows, whatever.
So regardless, that concludes the first
snake egg cutting for the year.
Let me know what you think in the comments.
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Onto a couple coluber clutches,
this is actually a hatched strawberry sunkissed.
Actually got like the same
type of animal the other day that laid.
So let's see if this one is good.
I think the last clutch was pretty fertile.
Yeah, this one looks good.
Absolutely, looks like 100% fertile clutch for sure.
We'll go ahead and just kind of pull these eggs aside
really quick over here, put 'em over here.
Check on mama, make sure she's in good shape, looks good.
Mama's looking good right here,
we'll go ahead and set her aside and pull out
this egg box really quick.
Get the shed out of here as always.
We'll get the water and stuff like that.
Looks like a really nice clutch so let's go ahead
and see how many eggs we've got here.
Again, doesn't look like any infertiles got--
a little bit of one egg over here that's a little goofy,
but should be pretty good.
I think it'll probably hatch.
For now, we've got two, four, six, eight,
ten good eggs in this clutch.
And again, this is a het strawberry sunkissed.
The strawberry is a type of hypo-melanism,
it's a recessive mutation.
And the sunkissed is also a recessive mutation
that basically just changes the head pattern.
A little bit of the color and pattern.
Regardless, hopefully we'll get some
strawberry sunkissed out of this clutch.
This was a clutch from a female I showed you
the other day that was about to lay that I'm excited
about 'cause I just love her.
I remember when we actually hatched this girl
and it's her very first clutch.
She's actually a butter motley corn snake.
What a gorgeous animal that is right there.
Oh, it looks like she's got one little egg left!
You know what?
I'm gonna go ahead and leave her in this box.
But since I disturbed her, I'm gonna take
her eggs out of here just to get them out of here.
And we'll have to come back and see if she lays that egg.
There's a very good chance that it may be
stuck at the very end.
It's right at the end, so I don't think it's gonna
be a problem, so this way,
I'm just gonna close this up.
We'll just leave her alone and come back maybe later today,
maybe even early tomorrow we'll check on her.
If she didn't pass, I think it's gonna be
pretty easy to expel that egg outta there.
Regardless, I got her other eggs out of there
just so that I can get them in an egg box.
Let's go ahead and put them down like this.
Looks like a couple eggs are separate over here.
No big deal.
But definitely very small eggs because of course,
she's a small girl, first time breeder so
the eggs are gonna be a little bit smaller.
She's got two, four, six, eight, ten, 12 eggs.
That is absolutely incredible.
And of course, one egg's still in her.
I'll keep you guys updated on that,
hopefully she'll pass that last egg.
We'll get this in there, shouldn't be a problem at all.
Like I said, if by later on today or early tomorrow
if she hasn't passed, I'll just go with the probe
and get that egg out of there.
Regardless, 12 beautiful eggs.
About every week or two,
we have to do a kind of big cleaning of Bowser.
It's just a lot of the soot and stuff like that.
And you really can't work around him,
so the only thing we do is actually get him
out of his enclosure over here.
So the only way to do that is to go ahead and
get inside and get a little wet.
Whoo.
Bowser, I'm comin' in, buddy!
Ooh, water's nice.
Okay, Bowser.
You ready?
Be nice to me.
And obviously what you wanna do, you don't want
your feet to be in front of his face
because the back end ain't gonna do anything to you.
And he's actually a pretty good animal,
so I'll just get him out from under this log
and then we'll go ahead and get him going.
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Pond's all cleaned up the best we can.
Now it's gonna take it a day or two for it
to kind of get through the whole cycle again.
Should be really clean, got most of that soot off.
So we're gonna go ahead and get Bowser back in.
He's definitely a big guy.
And he's a 41 year old alligator snapping turtle.
He's about a hundred pounds.
Someday, we're gonna have to put him on a scale
to find out, but trust me, he's a very heavy animal.
And, ugh.
He's one that is very, very, very strong
so we're just gonna gently get him back in there.
Okay, okay, Bowser.
Let's go, buddy.
There you go, there you go, bud.
Whoo!
I love that animal.
Now that is truly a prehistoric dinosaur right there.
That thing is ridiculous.
So, all right.
Pond should settle down and look good here
within the next day or two.
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- Hey, guys, what's happening?
So today, we're just kinda going through--
every about three months, we'll go through every snake.
I have to replace the feeding cards.
And you know, this will just be both of our feeding days.
We can mark down there, see what's going on.
These are very crucial to us 'cause we wanna see
what the snake's eating, how it's doing, if we
need to switch it to live, switch it to frozen.
Whatever the case is, we wanna keep a close eye
on the snakes, make sure they're in the best condition.
So I'm gonna wrap this up, only a few hundred to go.
And that's about it.
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- I literally just noticed this rock.
Which is by the way absolutely cool,
but I have no idea what the deal is with this.
It's literally just sitting over here so I'm assuming
that someone put it there because we've had that happen
with little rocks over here where people will paint a rock
and then hide it, and then we find it.
It is really cool, so I'm gonna try to find out
the information on this awesome rock.
Huh.
I came over and it looks like everyone is gone.
I don't know if anyone is here.
I mean, it is getting late but I just assumed
everyone was still working.
So I'm just gonna look real quick, don't see anyone.
Check up front in the offices.
Oop, there you are.
Is everyone gone for the day?
- Yep.
- [Brian] Do you know anything about that?
- No.
- Isn't that cool?
- It's really pretty.
- Isn't that awesome?
So I don't know what's going on with it.
I just found it over on the waterfall.
- Huh.
- Okay.
All right.
So I'll have to ask everyone tomorrow, but--
oh, wait a second, here.
I didn't look on the back.
It says, to Brian Barczyk, Justin (inaudible) and family.
We watch every day.
My mom is letting me get a snake this summer.
You are the reason I love snakes.
You should show the rock on the channel
so I know you got it.
So-- oh, and they-- oh, my gosh.
That's awesome.
Well, thank you so much!
So I didn't even know, that's amazing!
I love when people do that.
It's so absolutely incredible.
What a cool thing.
Thank you for that.
I dunno, guys.
So I think I'll just go ahead and end the vlog on that note.
It's been an amazing day.
Let me know what you guys think in the comments.
I love you guys, have an absolutely wonderful day.
Be kind to someone and I promise, I will see you tomorrow.
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