- This happens to be a Champagne Ball Python
but not any Champagne, it's pretty special to me
because I raised her up for five years
and she was just kind of a picky eater.
Last year was the first year she laid eggs
and it was all slugs, this year she laid eggs
and they were good eggs and she was bred to this ripper
of a male, which is a Banana Enchi Cinnamon Pinstripe.
Now, the reason I say I like this combination,
and we're about to cut this clutch of eggs is the fact
that the Cinnamon and the Champagne
mix really well together, what I mean by that
is that Champagnes are an overpowering gene, most things
that you breed Champagne to, they kind of look
just like a Champagne to be totally honest
with you, even when there's two or three or four genes
in them but there's a couple of genes
that interact really well, the Champagne will actually do
like white blotching sometimes,
almost like piebaldism, believe it or not
and then you get into the Enchi gene and where most
of the Champagnes are basically Pavlos
with just a little bit of pattern down their back,
with the Enchi, you get lots of different patterns.
Like the Enchi gene interacts with the Champagne
and actually produces more pattern.
It's one of the only genes that you can breed to Champagne.
There's a couple others but the major gene
that you can breed to Champagne
that causes a tremendous amount of pattern.
So you get the pattern of the Enchi and the Champagne.
Then you get the white blotching potentially
of the Cinnamon and there could be some really cool stuff.
Could you imagine a Banana Champagne that has white
blotching on it with a bunch of pattern?
That's what the all gene animal would be like,
minus the Pinstripe, of course, so regardless,
I was excited about this clutch.
Not only because I love this girl and she's been around for
such a long time, I finally am going to get babies from her,
but also the combination is so cool.
So what do you say we head over and cut this collection.
All right, so again, the genetics are really cool.
I've been really looking forward to this clutch
because you know, we can create that combination of Enchi,
Cinnamon, Banana, Champagne that could be ridiculous guys.
I mean, really cool, so let's go ahead.
We've got six eggs, let's jump right into it
and egg number one, oh my gosh am I excited!
I am so excited, now, some of that white patterning.
Ooh, right off the rip, what is that?
So we got a Banana Champagne going off.
I think it's a Cinnamon but I can't tell.
So one thing is going to be difficult as they could
have the white blotching as a Cinnamon Champagne,
and you might not be able to see it in the egg.
This is definitely a Banana, this definitely a Champagne,
looks to me could be a Cinnamon.
Definitely not an Enchi though
because you don't see any patterns.
Again, the Enchi is going to have pattern on the Champagne.
So there's definitely no pattern there.
It definitely looks to me like a Cinnamon Banana Champagne.
So we almost hit it one more gene
and we would have crushed it, right?
So let's just keep going and like I mentioned,
if you guys want to guess down below each egg,
what we might get, that's always a fun little game to play,
that's for sure, all right, what do we have here?
Let's see, let's see, let's see.
Okay, so this is okay, this is definitely a Cinnamon
and Champagne, I don't see any white blotching
on this yet but that doesn't mean it's not there, right?
It could be little but sometimes you'll have a little bit
of white blocking, sometimes it could be like 80% white.
Right, so we definitely haven't seen any Champagne.
There's no Banana, there's no Enchi yet.
So we're still just kind of slowly get there.
This also could be a Pinstripe, right?
Because there was Pinstripe in there too.
So the fact that it's really clean,
my thoughts are probably a Champagne, a Pinstripe
and a cinnamon, we're, we're getting there guys.
There's lots of genes and we still have four weeks to go.
Let's do it and again, I really want to see that Enchi
influence and some Champagne stuff
because that's the stuff that's absolutely incredible.
Weirdly enough, we ended up just getting an Enchi Pinstripe
in this, so we didn't get Banana, we didn't get Cinnamon,
we didn't get any of the other stuff, so that's okay though.
We did get an Enchi Pinstripe, three more eggs.
Oh gosh, I hope we can hit, I really want to see
that banana entry Cindy champagne so bad.
I mean, that's the animal I'm looking for.
Let's jump into egg number four and hope for the best.
All right, guys, just give me that good juju.
We need it down below, all right, so what do we have?
Ooh, this is actually really pretty animal.
So we missed the Champagne on this one.
So this is actually a Banana, a Enchi and a Pinstripe.
Possibly a Cinny actually, it looks like
there might Cinny there, so it looks like we hit
all the genes minus the Champagne in this one.
So really, still a really gorgeous snake.
I mean really good but we hate having it.
I really want it, so that's two eggs to go, come on,
come on pop, we need you, we need you, we need you.
Oh my gosh, just once, okay, so we didn't get a Banana
in this one right off the rip,
again, it looks like a Cinnamon
and you can see right here at the tip of its tail,
can barely see that white blotch right there.
That's what that Cinny does to the Champagne
but this one made have big white blotches on other parts
of its body too, so we definitely have a Champagne,
a Pinstripe and a Cinny and this one, no Banana,
no Enchi for dying, we've yet to produce a Champagne
and an Enchi combo and that's where the pattern comes in.
That's what I was really hoping for.
So last egg, come on, fingers crossed, let's hit it.
Here we go, guys, we gotta hit it.
We'd got it, I've been thinking about this for 57 days.
Come on, oh, I think we might've missed.
I'm not sure yet, well, wait a second.
Okay, okay, this is actually really good.
It's not the banana but we did hit what I wanted to hit.
This is actually, this is, this is cool guys.
This is really cool, this is actually a Champagne,
it's a Pinstripe, it's an Enchi and it might be a Cinny
and you could see all that extra pattern.
Look as I'm moving this around, we'll get all that pattern.
That's an Enchi gene interacting with the Champagne gene
causing the pattern, so we at these hit
that we definitely had a Pinstriped Champagne Enchi,
maybe a Cinny, not sure until it has this off
but we didn't hit the Banana, little bit of a bummer.
We didn't hit the all gene animal but finally,
on the last egg we did hit the animal I was really excited
about producing, so hey, all in all,
we did prove some really cool stuff.
That was pretty awesome.
We're in there future!
So obviously we cut these eggs a couple of days ago.
So we're now two days in the future
when they all crawled out, I just couldn't wait
to show you guys, we'll go back to the past here
after this segment but I just wanted to show you
what we've got, of course, this is a little
Pinstripe Banana Enchi Ball Python.
That's really cool, right, you know
but really we want it to look at and the Champagne stuff
and really, I wanted to look at the Champagne stuff
and I wanted to show you what I was talking about about,
that white blotching right, that I told you almost like,
it looks like a piebald, when you mix Cinnamon
and Champaign, you can really see it right here
with this particular animal, so after this shot,
I really realized that this was
a Champagne Pinstriped Cinny but you could still see
those white blotches on its tail, right?
Almost like piebaldism, which is pretty cool
and some kind of white kind of on its head
and just really cool, I love the way the Champagne
and the Cinny actually and then you mix the Pinstripe in,
just kind of smooth it out and we actually produced two
of those little monkeys right here,
this happens to be other ones and again,
you can see a little bit of white on his tail,
not as much white as the other one
but you can still see the white
kind of bleeding through, again,
I've had these hatch out where there's like 50 or 60% white,
just from a Champagne Cinny, so again,
it's almost like a piebaldism thing.
Now, interestingly enough, we ended up producing this here,
which is actually a Banana Cinny Champagne Pinstripe.
So all the genes together and you can see a little white
on the tail on this one too, so again,
we didn't get the highest white with these guys
but they still turned out pretty cool.
Then this animal here, I'm not going to lie to you,
was a complete bummer, this was actually
the Champagne Pinstripe Enchi and you could see,
it is not doing well, I mean, it's got some neuro issues.
It's got what they call sharp mouth,
which means that it just basically has an underbite.
Most likely this one, isn't going to make it,
we'll set it up, we'll see what happens you
over the next week or two but we just don't know.
I mean, so we'll go ahead and set this guy up
over the next couple of weeks and just see
if it thrives or not, sometimes I'll actually see these guys
eat on their own and do well, it's an absolute ripper
of a snake, super beautiful but I was kind of bummed out
that it didn't hatch out perfect
but just take a look at the pattern and how absolutely
stunning it is but regardless,
I wanted to jump into the future and show you guys this.
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- Holy crap, these things are crazy.
This is, all right, so this is the thing
with that Jelly Brooks, I don't even know.
I don't even understand that gene, I've tried
and I research, these things are orange.
So I don't even know what's going on here
because we've literally never produced orange ones before.
I've got to do some research because it's really hard
when you get these weird and it's very unusual, like I said,
most genetics aren't like this
but I don't even understand this to begin with
but these things are beautiful.
I've never seen anything like this in a Brooks.
So Brian's gonna freak out when he sees them
and guess what, he's gonna want to raise them all.
We'll see but definitely have to at least figure out
what they are 'cause holy crap, these are amazing.
- I honestly don't know if you guys understand
how obsessed I am with this snake right now, you know,
I've been dealing with big snakes since I was 15 years old.
Everyone knows that and I've had some amazing animals.
Obviously we have Sunrises, who's an awesome snake.
Lucy's amazing, Daisy is so amazing,
but I've never had a snake like this
and I've always wanted a really big kind of giant snake
that was this docile, just like, look at her.
She's not in any kind of, she doesn't run,
she doesn't try to get away, she doesn't try
and do anything and it's just, it is crazy.
I mean, like again, I've gotten a lot of cool animals
just recently and I have a lot of cool animals.
I love them all, you guys know that
but there are certain animals that you just kind of get
and you just immediately have this like amazing bond
and obsession with right and she is one of them.
From the moment I saw her, I was just blown away
and I kept on thinking, this is too good to be true, right?
I mean, when I first got her, I thought, all right,
maybe she's chilled out from being out of her cage.
When I get her in a cage, it's going to be
a completely different snake, no she's not.
She is absolutely, look at this girl,
she just chills out on you, this is going to be an animal
that will be probably one of my top ambassador animals
for education for a long time because we can take her out
with kids and obviously we're going to be safe.
We're always safe, we always stay
but you can see this girl doesn't look
like she's got a mean bone in her body.
She is absolutely incredible, now I haven't
figured out a name yet, guys, you dropped a ton
of amazing names in the comments
but you know, it's just, it's gotta be the right.
It's gotta be perfect, I mean,
this animal is going to be so special to me for the next 15,
20 years that I have to make sure the name is perfect.
So continue dropping them and maybe I'll take the top three
and put them in a community poll and you guys can decide
with me and help but I just don't know.
You know, sometimes it takes me a couple of weeks
to kind of get a name that fits where I go, yes, that's it
and right now I don't know what it is
but she is absolutely incredible.
- Okay, so today we are going to be working
with a little bit of Asko, Sriracha action.
They've actually gotten a lot better over the last couple
of months, so we're going to see what happens.
Stop, stop, stop, stop, stop, stop, stop.
So as you can see, once you're out of the cage,
you're actually really good, we're definitely
still working with Sriracha, her nails are just crazy sharp
but she's really, really fast.
The last I wanna say about three or four weeks
or so every single day I take him out of the cage
and we do a little lap around the zoo
and he typically comes down our buddies.
He only get on, we want your quotes but that's okay.
It happens, it's part of the job.
- Yeah, it's starting to become a little bit of a problem.
I'm not going to lie to you, Matilda's amazing.
This door was meant for her to just kind of be able
to push her way out and walk around
but now she's like walking around with all the time.
She, she broke the pane of glass the other day.
So now it's becoming an issue.
I'm not sure exactly what to do about.
I don't want to look, at you, look at her.
She's literally like climbing on top, can you believe this?
This is crazy, can you believe this?
It's a climbing tortoise, I love her
and I want her to come out but she can't be
breaking everything, so I don't know what I'm going to do.
Do I have to put, let me know,
do you think I can put a lock on it?
Only let her out a couple hours a day
or should I let her keep pushing her way out?
I mean, that was the whole idea to begin with but oh,
she's becoming destructive and I can't have that happen
but I want her to roam around, so I'm so conflicted.
Matilda, I promise, give me five minutes
and I'll let you out, okay girl?
She wants to come out so bad and she's so cute.
I can't ever stop her, so I tell her, she melts my heart.
- Isn't very happy but it's an albino Jelly Brooks bred
to a male albino Brooks, this is also her second clutch.
So let's see how good she did.
Ooh, this is a nice clutch too, all good eggs, no slugs.
Can't be happier about that, one,
two, three, four, five, six, seven,
eight perfect eggs from her and again for a second clutch,
this is amazing because a lot of times you don't get
as good a fertility for the second clutches.
So to get perfect clutches, hey, can't be happier with that.
- Oh, big baby, my goodness, she's so big.
There you go, good girl, good girl.
There you go, that'll work, that'll work.
There you go, good girl, good girl.
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