(Upbeat music)
- Your good. your good.
(engine roaring)
(swoosh)
- Hey, good morning everybody
and welcome to the blog!
I'm gonna get the day started with pulling
some snake eggs, always exciting of course
Kelsi is doing a great job down here.
So what do we have as our first clutch?
- We have a pastel bred to a woma lesser pinstripe.
- All right lets see what she has.
She looks like she's got some nice eggs in there,
so far this is our third clutch of the year
so hopefully we'll keep going with the odds,
and it's looking really good!
Absolutely! Got two, four, six eggs here,
and we actually had one egg that
Kelsi and Mary pulled a little bit earlier
that actually got set up, that is a little
bit dimpled, and you can see we have a little bit of
a wet paper towel line.
That's so hopefully it kinda perks up
a little bit and absorbs that air,
and basically what happens is, when the female
coils around it, it kinda retains the humidity
but if they kick the egg out, it'll actually start
to dry up relatively quickly.
So regardless, these eggs are good.
Six eggs here, one egg over here, so seven eggs.
You know what's weird?
- What?
- We've had three clutches, all three have been seven eggs.
- Yeah, you know you're right.
(laughing)
- Lets go ahead, we've got one more clutch
lets hope there's seven eggs in that one, too.
And the second clutch is actually
just a really pretty normal bred to a banana,
and that's one of the things that we want,
we wanna still produce bananas and stuff
that people really are excited about,
so that's gonna look good.
I tell, I think she's gonna have more than seven eggs,
honestly. If I look and I peek in here real quick,
I have a feeling she's gonna have,
I'm gonna go out on a limb, I'm gonna say
she has nine eggs.
Lets see if I'm right or am I wrong.
Oh, now the pressure is on, oh my gosh she's not
gonna have nine eggs is she?
What is she gonna have?
- Oh she might, two, four, six, eight, ten.
- Ten (laughs) oh my God ten eggs, that's good!
So that's awesome we're going in the right direction
and Kelsi just said, "Mention it",
I was just hoping she wasn't jinxing us,
she said, "We haven't had a slug yet this year",
so four clutches down.
We have a total of 31 eggs and not one slug
so that's absolutely good. (laughing)
So we'll get these guys set up, like you guys
know that I take my eggs back home,
to my home incubator, incubate 'em at 88 89 degrees,
sometimes it pumps up to 90.
These guys will be ready to hatch in about 57, 58 days
so as always, Kelsi, good job!
- Thank you!
- It's another day and another time with Lucy.
Oh my gosh, as soon as I literally get over here
she just goes crazy!
I need to clean her water out over here,
'cause she has a little bit of urate in here,
and I'm like a yo-yo when it comes to Lucy.
Sometimes I think she looks good,
sometimes I think she looks bad.
Right now she looks really distended
and now I'm thinking that maybe
she's gonna have good eggs again,
I don't know. But oh my gosh,
what am I gonna do? Come on, girl.
Please, I've got to change
your- (swoosh)
Jeez! It's okay girl, I towed it.
I, (sighs) I've gotta change your water!
What am I gonna do? Lucy come on girl,
come on please just let me get over here.
This is exactly what I'm gonna have to deal with
when she's on edge, right here, you're seeing it right now.
I am standing here like this, the cage is right over here
and I'm gonna have to go at her like this.
Okay, I thought that she was just gonna chill out today
and I was gonna be able to take this plug out
and change her water.
Obviously that's not the case,
I'm gonna get a snake hook just again
and just kinda nudge her head away from me
so I can get this plug out over here but,
holy moley, she is in a bad mood!
(swoosh)
(yelling)
Jesus! Now she's so close she's gonna strike me.
Okay, it's okay. Okay, girl.
It's okay.
Oh my gosh!
Are you kidding me right now?
I don't get really nervous around the animals much,
but (laughing) this is perilous!
She is in a completely crazy mood.
(swoosh)
(yelping)
Oh my gosh! holy cow! I don' t know what I'm gonna do here,
I literally don't know. I think I may have to get Bruce
because I'm not gonna be solo on this, there's just no way.
C'mon, Lucy!
Alright, so Bruce, somehow we've got to get
the water changed in here,
she is in a very, very bad mood
and I'm not exactly sure. What do you think?
Do you think I should, do you want to
keep her head at bay, and me?
- Do you wanna know what I honestly think,
I think you're pretty much on your own here.
(laughing)
- Thanks for your help, I appreciate it.
I don't know what to do.
- You've known Lucy way better than I do,
so how about I get the urate and you watch her?
That work out?
- Okay well I wanna drain this, so I wanna-
- Yeah, yeah I can do that.
- So okay you wanna do this?
- Yeah , I can do it.
- So okay, lets see. I gonna try to keep her this way.
Okay, I'll tell you what. Grab your thing.
- Yeah.
- So at least I'm not in harms way here.
(laughing)
This is perfect!
Okay I'll keep her at bay.
- Alright Brian.
- Yup, you got, I got it, yeah.
She's all right I've still got her.
Okay, back up for a second, bro.
Back up, back up, back up, back up!
(dramatic music)
Uh-oh. Now we're gonna be in trouble!
(yelping)
(clanking)
(sloshing)
- Okay.
- Watch your step.
All right. (whispering) Go ahead!
- You can jump out. Move!
(ominous music)
(swoosh)
- (yelling) I'll tell you what, Lucy gets to the next level
when she's gravid, I mean she is just on fire right now!
Okay. I'm gonna step out.
So there you go! That's what keeping a snake
like Lucy is about.
Now we have to get in there with a vacuum
and actually get all the urates out,
get it cleaned up, disinfected, that's gonna be a trick,
and then we can throw (chuckles) her back up but,
oh my God! That is a prelude to what's gonna happen
when I'm pulling her eggs.
I might have to call in sick to work that day.
Guys today I got chance to get in with Lucy
'cause I had to clean her up, (hooting)
so I decided that when she lays the eggs,
I'm gonna let you guys- - No.
- have your first experience.
- NO.
- I'm ready ,I could do it .
- I'm not doing it.
- Oh yeah, what about this? - I'm not doing it.
- See, listen you've got retakes, you wanna maybe,
maybe one day you free, there's nothing better
than hands on experience.
- I'm not gonna do that. - You can read a book!
- Or you can do it hands on. - No.
- I'm not doing that thing.
- I gotta change that. I got the full gear.
We're gonna put some little knee pads on 'ya,
- You're gonna need it!
- a little cool helmet,
- Riot shields! (chuckles)
- I may need level 3 body armor, (chuckles) okay?
- Oh ,yeah, no we'll do it, we can do it.
- It is crazy at how unbelievably upset she is right now.
I mean you open the door and she perks up
and strikes.
- She's shnoked already.
- I've never seen-
- How she lookin' by the way I haven't even-
- She's lookin' better. She is lookin' better.
I was a little concerned a week or so ago
but now I'm thinking maybe she will have some good eggs.
- No way!
- But I do think that you guys,
so think about - No!
about your strategy.
- No!
- I'm ready I already know what I'm gonna do.
Run a hose in there, pump a little sleepy gas.
She's knocked out! - I like that!
(laughing)
- Even when I come to these guys with something serious,
there's no way I'm letting you gas my, oh my God!
- Why? Just a little... - Gas, sleeping gas!
I guess I'm going in with Lucy because obviously,
these guys are not ready to do it.
I like the fact that Lucy's head's a little hidden
right now, so that's good she's not looking at me.
So I just have to vacuum up all this stuff,
disinfect it, and then we can fill it back up.
But we've got a long way to go, lets hope it
works out.
(vacuuming)
- Okay! (laughing)
I'll tell you what, I love it!
I mean I know it's perilous,
I know it's silly and I shouldn't
probably be laughing 'cause listen I
take it very seriously,
but I don't know ,there's just something amazing
when your in an animal like that,
she's so smart, she's so intelligent,
she's obviously not very happy.
She's very defensive 'cause she's gravid,
she's trying to protect, basically her nest site
which is understandable, but I have to just be careful.
And listen, she has to have clean water.
I can't leave dirty water in here, so I have no choice
but to do it, so I'm just disinfect this
scrub it a little bit with hopefully her
not biting me, and then I could put the plug
back in and fill it up with fresh water for her.
Oh my gosh, and by the way,
because she's got her nest
box over here, we're probably gonna in about a week,
drain this water out and then just put a water
bowl in the center.
That way if she does decide to lay her eggs down here
they're not going into the water 'cause
we don't want the eggs going into the water
and then perish, right?
So, okay she has about maybe a week and a half,
two weeks tops before she's gonna lay
and like I said now I think she's looking a lot better.
Still a little thin in a couple of areas but not that thin.
She's definitely full of eggs and I'll tell you what,
maybe they're good, I guess we'll have to wait and see.
By far the most dangerous part of this
is gonna be right now
because I am within striking range
of her right now, and I need to scrub
a couple of the urates out,
all the way in the corner over here.
So I'm gonna try my hardest,
to just try to sneak in over here,
kind of like that.
(dramatic music)
(swishing)
- You're good, you're good.
Yeah, she just twitched, she didn't strike.
- That'll get your heart rollin'.
(laughing)
- That'll get your heart goin'.
- I'm gonna be honest-
(yowling)
I'm gonna be honest with you.
It is definitely a pretty perilous feeling
- Oh God!
- me sitting here on your knees, knowing that
you don't, you have your back right against the wall
knowing that your within strike range of an animal!
But this is all part of it, I mean I guess in a way
I can't say that this cage was exactly
the best-designed cage when it comes
to this type of an animal
but she was the one that just kind of
seemed to be the best to be in this cage
as far as I was concerned.
So basically what I'm doing now is,
I'm washing down all the cleaning solution
and then I'll suck the last little bit of water out
so that it's nice and clean in here so...
(yelping)
(sighing)
- She's not in a good mood.
- I thought it was, man.
- How's' it gonna be when there's actual eggs in there
and you have to grab 'em out?
Are you fucking excited for that?
- I've said this is kind of the prelude
to what that's gonna be.
I'm gonna come basically, man, I'm gonna be
on my knees like this but I'm certainly gonna be in
a position similar to where she's gonna be
within striking range of me at all times, and...
(vacuuming)
Just thinking, if I can get kinda just below her
so she doesn't see me.
- You're crazy.
(ominous music)
You're really crazy.
- Okay, got you.
(thunk)
- It should be good.
(howls)
- Man, your crazy. (chuckles)
- Good, just gotta fill it up now.
And there you have it, guys.
Definitely a perilous, that was a crazy, crazy thing,
I mean, wow!
But I love it, this is again, I always
say that it takes all that thirty years of
experience to reading an animal, what she's gonna do
and not potentially get bitten,
and I can't stress enough that Daisy is just defensive,
she's gravid, she's protecting her nest.
She's not a mean animal she's not a horrible animal,
she's just a defensive animal.
And when she's in her cage, she's like this.
So regardless, beautiful snake, get this filled up,
she'll have some nice fresh water
and this was a good practice for pulling
those eggs, that's gonna happen
just in another week or week and a half.
Definitely super excited that we're getting
into the breeding season, getting eggs almost every day now.
There'll be a day or two here and there we won't get eggs,
But for the most part, game on!
We're gonna have eggs almost every day.
Of course, geckos are gonna always have eggs
but regardless it's exciting.
Now, I will say that this is our first season
that we have both B.H.B. and the Reptarium
going full blast during the breeding season.
So already, it's like, oh my gosh, there's so much
going on, but it's gonna be so much fun.
Not only the egg-laying season, but then the hatch season.
It's gonna be challenging, it's gonna be
a lot of long days, but I'm gonna bring you guys along
on the journey and hopefully
its gonna be truly an amazing year.
Look at Pickles over here she's in hunting mode
right here and I do need to find a male for Pickles
for sure 'cause I'd love to breed them.
Years ago I bred green tree pythons
but it's been a long time, so I'm super excited
to get back into that, and Pickles is doing so well,
oh and by the way, if you guys didn't notice,
been wearing this cool shirt!
Actually, the tour that I did earlier today came in
from Utah and they all had custom shirts
that had deda, chameleons, all kinds of cool stuff
and they made me a fella shirt,
so it's absolutely incredible!
and I told them, I'll just go ahead and tell you guys,
I love shirts, so if you guys have any cool shirt ideas
where you see something really goofy,
typically I like really goofy shirts,
please let me know. Send a link or send them my way,
I'll put a link in the description, I wear a large
by the way, so I need some cool new shirts!
Maybe you guys wanna send them to me,
if not, just send me the link and I'll buy 'em myself.
And then take a look rally quick guys,
I'm gonna be really gentle, but like I said,
usually pythons get kind of in a trance
where they don't mind being looked at
but this girl is actually laying eggs right now.
She's a black pastel lesser, it looks like she's got
a couple of eggs out, looks like she's definitely
got a couple of eggs to go.
So we're just gonna go ahead and put that Do Not Disturb
and I will come back and we'll probably
get those eggs tomorrow.
So, what a challenging day, huh! I mean Lucy has got me
a little rattled, I mean what's gonna happen
when she lays that clutch of eggs, its gonna be
absolutely ridiculous but it'll also be a lot of fun.
I mean what's the worse that happened?
The good news is, even if I get bit,
it's not the end of the world.
She is definitely getting ready,
she is all getting swollen up and again,
like I mentioned before, I was really worried
about her a week or two ago.
Feeling a lot more confident that she's gonna have
a good clutch of eggs, I tell ya,
it is right around the corner.
With that said I'm gonna end the blog
wish you guys an amazing day!
Tell you how absolutely incredible I think you all are
for all of your support. Be kind to someone today.
I promise I will see you guys tomorrow.
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