- Guess what guys?
That's right.
It is 57 days and our first clutch of snake eggs
is about to get cut.
I couldn't be more excited.
As a matter of fact,
I'm so excited, I've got a brand new razor blade
that I hopefully I won't cut my finger.
We'll unwrap this.
(air swooshing)
You ready for some cutting?
And this was actually the mom right here
which is just a beautiful Pastel female.
And she was bred to this Black Pewter Cypress
which is a Pastel and it's a Black Pastel
and it's a Cypress Ball Python.
So again, that Black Pewter Cypress
will actually be a Pastel, a Black Pastel and a Cypress.
And then we got the Pastel so we could produce
a super Pastel, Black Pastel Cypress,
and all kinds of different combinations there.
What do you say we jump into egg number one
of the season 2021, let's go.
All right, here we go.
Oh my gosh, what is it gonna be?
What will the first snake of 2021 be?
Whoop, looks right off the bat,
it looks like it is definitely a Black Pewter.
It looks like it could potentially be
a Black Pewter Cypress too.
That Black Pewter Cypress
will sometimes have some striping
but it also kind of disperses
and cleans up the pattern,
that is gonna be awesome.
So hey right off the rip, that's our first egg.
Egg number two.
Here we go.
I wanna start getting some of that
super Pastel stuff in here too.
Let's hope for some different things, whoo!
Right off the bat, egg number two.
I'm glad I didn't cut this one as egg number one
'cause it's the normal Ball Python.
Again, that's gonna happen, guys,
odds are gonna be up and down this year
we have so many eggs to cut.
That was a normal ball Python.
I'm just happy it wasn't the first egg,
'cause that would have definitely not been
the way I wanted to start my year.
Let's jump into egg number three.
It is so good to be cutting snake eggs again.
Ooh, dog.
And I see something beautiful in here.
Woo doggy.
That's right, baby.
We hit the all-gene animal right there.
That is actually a super pastel, Black pastel,
Cypress ball python.
So, it's basically a silver streak, Cypress ball Python
and oh my gosh, take a, look a how purple that is .
That's what I was going for,
you know I love purple snakes guys.
So purple snake.
That was absolutely incredible.
All right, we got egg number three.
We banged it out.
We still have one, two, three, four, five more eggs to go.
Let's jump into egg number four, egg number four.
Phew I tell you what?
After that egg I was flipping out. Okay.
So what we have here is actually a super pastel
could be a super pastel Cypress because it's super clean
and that cypress gene really cleans things up.
So we'll see when this hatches out
but it's definitely a super pastel,
possibly a super pastel Cypress.
Woo that's good.
Now we're starting to heat up now guys, egg number five.
Here we go.
Egg Number five, more purple snakes please.
Nope. No more purple snakes, but we did get another super
pastel so you can really see the difference.
This looks like what is a absolute just super pastel
Whereas the other one looks like the super pastel
Cypress. You can see the cleanliness in those two.
Definitely. Cool.
Three more eggs to go
Can we get into the purple snake?
Let's just get one more.
Let's jump in.
Here we go.
Come on, come on, come on, come on, come on.
Okay. We have another Black Pewter, which appears to
be a Cypress cause that's super cleanliness.
So it looks
like we have two Black pewter cypresses, which isn't bad.
Still. We got two eggs left.
I want one of my purple snake
I know I'm getting greedy guys
but let's just go ahead and see what we get.
Here we go.
Come on two more eggs.
We got to get some cool stuff.
All right.
Oh, oh, this actually looks
like just a normal Cypress ball python
So it's not a normal, this at least is a Cypress.
So that's good.
So we only have one normal so far.
Last egg.
Come on, give me something purple.
Let's do it last egg for the first clutch of 2021.
Here we go.
I can see it's not purple.
And this is just actually a Black pastel.
It looks like actually a Black pastel Cypress ball python.
So all in all, we got a bunch of cool combinations.
Things worked out pretty well.
We did hit the all-gene animal
with that purple snake, which is super cool.
So hey, I tell you what
I'm not complaining.
the first clutch
of many clutches that we're going to be cutting this year.
So this is awesome.
Egg cutting season is back on.
I think our next clutch
that we get to cut is two or three days away.
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Take a look
and we've got some little baby leopard geckos
ironically enough.
These were eggs that were late this year
but before they bred.
So it was basically retained sperm
from the year before, but they're really beautiful.
It actually happens to be a white
and yellow mack snow eclipse right here.
That is basically patternless.
And then we have a little Tremper
white and yellow mack snow, beautiful guy.
So again, lots of leopard gecko eggs in the incubator
but these are theoretically the first babies
of this year that were late this year.
So that's pretty awesome.
I'm actually really excited about this clutch
but let's face it.
What clutch am I not excited about?
But look at how beautiful this girl is.
She's actually a pastel yellow belly looks
like she's got one egg over here.
Just hiding out over here,
but she's actually bred to a banger male
which happens to be a super Stripe spider red Stripe.
So super Stripe is actually a yellow belly and a specter.
And then there's spider.
And then there's red Stripe in there,
breeding into pastel and then another yellow belly gene.
It's going to be some pretty cool babies.
Let's see how many eggs mama has.
It looks like a bun.
Mama is not happy.
Come on mama.
I know.
And look at, they've got nice, pretty size eggs too.
Definitely a beautiful female going to have to
candle these as well too
because not only she kicked the one out
but she's kind of rolling the other ones around.
So we're going to have to look.
Gosh. Mama's mad.
Okay, good.
Good. Come on.
Whoa. Whoop.
Tell you what.
You gotta be careful that's for sure.
Whoa, she's a fire little girl.
That's for darn sure.
She's just protecting her eggs.
That's okay, mama.
it's all right.
We'll get these eggs out of here.
Oh gosh.
Every time I reach in here, she gets crazy.
So what happens is when I clean her up and
actually wash her off a little bit
she'll get that egg smell off of her.
And that maternal instinct called drop a bug.
But regardless,
we've got two, four, six beautiful eggs,
again, a lot of really cool combos.
That red Stripe, the pastel, yellow belly specter
all that stuff who knows what we're going to get.
It's going to be epic
no matter what hatches.
I got a quick unboxing to do
which actually has an interesting story behind it.
So let's go ahead.
Roll that unboxing reel.
And the other day when I actually unboxed
those green tree monitors
which are absolutely beautiful.
Some of you even noticed I noticed
but I didn't say anything
at the time that there was something popping
out of what was supposed to be the female.
Well, I noticed that that's not typically the case.
Now they can have scent glands, but that looked more
like hemipenes,
but I wanted to actually set them up
and then go back and take a closer look
at them and sure enough,
they were two males.
So I wanted a pair and I ended up with two males.
I wanted a pair and I ended up with two males.
So of course I reached out to my buddy.
He was super cool about it.
And basically we're just shipping one
of the males back and he shipped me a
another female green tree monitor,
again monitor lizards aren't the easiest to sex.
So it was an honest mistake.
You know, it does happen.
But again, I didn't want two males
because two males could potentially fight
and even though those had been together for quite some time.
And oh my gosh, this is so beautiful.
Look at that.
Whoa. And although those two were living together
for some time.
Now it's peeing on me
and you can basically see these are scent glands
on this one particular one here.
And so no big deal.
You can definitely tell the difference
between scent glands and hemipenes.
There's no doubt about it.
So the fact that those were living together, probably
the smaller one was probably getting a little bit dominated
by the adult male, to be totally honest with you.
So we ended up getting a nice
beautiful female to replace it.
So we're going to put this one in
with the male and send the other male back into, Hey,
hopefully they'll get along
and they'll have some eggs here in the future.
This one is a little bit smaller than the other one
but that's okay
because they're going to grow and do absolutely incredible.
So what do you say?
We go see if we can put this one
in and hopefully keep an eye
on them and make sure they get along.
So again, these guys have a lot of places to hide in here
so they can get away from each other
and kind of just kind of socialize each other.
This one actually is a little bit pretty.
I'll be honest with you.
And although it kind of jumped away when I first opened,
obviously it was probably all stressed out.
It's actually a little bit more calm as well.
Look at how it
just kind of sit in my hand.
So I'm just going to go ahead and let it go on its own.
When it decides to, here you go, you can go in there.
And again, the male is just a little bit bigger
but not too terribly much, but again
there's hiding spots on this side.
There's hiding spots on this side
and the male is actually in this core park right now.
So there's plenty of places
for them to get away from one another.
should be really good.
So again, things happen
and that's a good lesson that I've learned.
You know, even when you're getting snakes
and lizards,
always double sex because mistakes happen.
I make mistakes.
Everyone makes mistakes.
The last thing you want to do is raise
up a pair of animals two or three years later
find out they're two males right?
So I'm super happy that that got corrected.
And now we have a cool pair of green three monitors.
In the Klubered room,
roll that song.
That's right.
This girl is actually a golden eye or what they would call a
Black kingsnake sometimes called
Appalachia county king snakes.
Jay always loves that.
Right, Jake.
I love that.
All right, good.
So we'll get this girl all cleaned up.
She looks actually really good.
It looks like she didn't even lay a clutch.
Hey, she's so big.
Let's see if she's got some good eggs.
Oh yeah.
Look at that.
That's a beautiful clutch of eggs.
When I saw her sometimes when girls actually don't look
like they've deflated, you think
that they may have laid slogs or something like that
but this girl laid a nice, beautiful, big clutch of eggs.
So we'll go ahead and get these guys out of here.
Right quick.
This little eggy actually tumbled on us.
So we're going to go ahead and candle that one.
We'll we've got two, four, six, eight, ten, eleven eggs.
That is absolutely amazing.
When these babies hatch out, they're really beautiful.
They got tons of red on them.
Absolutely gorgeous.
So this is going to be a beautiful clutch to hatch
in a couple months.
- This is Bowzer, our alligator snapping turtles.
And this is Tobasco.
- I'm too short.
- Okay, go ahead.
I'll help you.
- No dude no. Who gave him so many damn tails?
It's got one.
And we're going to let them swim and Bowser's pond.
Ooh, come on Tabasco.
- This is his first time swimming.
- He's actually doing really good.
Like he's worried. He's better than my dog.
- Let's see if I can let him go and let's see what happens.
- Just like in the wild.
Look at him, you can tell he's thinking, he's like
"what is going on right now,
I've never been inside water like this".
- Here he goes, going for a swim.
What a thumbnail!
Going swimming.
- Bye buddy, he did such a good job.
- You did so good.
Look at him, he doesn't even want to leave us.
- He's still here.
- Oh dude! What the!
Oh my God
- Bye buddy.
- This is pretty interesting
because this is the egg eating snake
that Daisy pelt escape (indistinct).
And we put this nest up here to put eggs
in for it to come eat.
And then we thought this is never going to go up there.
So we've been feeding it on the ground.
But look at the shed is actually up in the trees.
So it actually climbed up here,
obviously climbed all the way around the nest
to get itself in a position to get it up.
So now I think we actually might be able to
put an egg in there
and maybe in the nighttime it'll come
and actually eat the egg from the nest.
Like we intended it.
That's pretty cool, but this is a perfect shed
from our egg eating snake.
Pretty excited about this clutch
because this is the first clutch of scaleless Texas rats.
The scaleless Texas rats that come from our new animals.
So these are fresh animals,
just kind of the more polymorphic ones
that we wanted to hold back
that had specific traits that we really like.
So the female herself is actually really beautiful
but the males we bred here too are stunning.
So I'm excited that we got the first clutch
of the year and really the first clutch ever.
Cause these are first time animals
and it looks like the clutch is really good,
definitely a bunch of beautiful eggs in here.
So definitely going to have to candle these guys
because they are definitely loose.
And I've said, and I've said definitely way too many times
in this whole thing.
So anyways, let's go ahead and get these eggs out of here.
All right.
We're right here.
And you can see they're kind of all rolling around.
So it's definitely.
Definitely I need to candle these, okay.
So let's go ahead and get these
out and then we'll count them up.
It does look like we got one new tiny slugger over here.
These eggs look
like they're actually together, which is good.
So we can just set those right down here.
These eggs are together so we can set those down over here.
And then all the ones on this side
we'll go ahead and candle.
We've got two, four, six, eight, ten, twelve, fourteen.
That means that we definitely have 14 eggs.
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