- Hey, good morning, everybody,
and welcome to the vlog.
I hope the start of your day is amazing.
We have a really busy day today,
I'm not going to lie.
This time of year gets really busy
because we start to hatch animals.
We've got eggs being laid.
We obviously have cleaning in the reptarium,
and tours, and all that stuff.
So it's pretty amazing, and again,
as always, I'm here to tell you
that if you're struggling like I am at times,
we can push our problems aside right now and
have a great time together, and distract ourselves.
We're going to get through this,
its going to be amazing.
What do you say we have a great day?
I am going to get started with something interesting.
What happens when a snake egg goes full term,
but then the egg goes bad?
What's inside?
So we're going to cut an egg and find out.
Not every egg makes it,
like I've mentioned before.
Sometimes you get an egg like this
that goes full term and basically
looked good a couple of days ago.
Now it has all these green, nasty spots.
That tells me that something went wrong.
That baby is probably dead in the egg
and is kind of rotting a little bit.
Now, it could be anything.
It could be a deformity, it could be
an umbilical twist, it could be twins.
It could be two heads.
You never know.
So let's just go ahead and cut into this egg
and we'll get an idea of what it looks like.
Maybe we'll even find out what happened
and why it went bad.
You can see that its already kind of nasty,
and honestly it doesn't smell really good.
I can tell you that much.
Look at that nastiness in there (groans).
I tell you what, there's a little tiny
snake in here that looks like its very premature.
And then this really big egg mass,
you can kind of see right here.
Obviously, something went dramatically wrong.
If we take this out, we'll just go ahead and
drop that egg over here.
We can kind of look and see,
and right off the rip you can see the deformity
all in this baby right here.
I mean, that baby was just all kinked up.
It looks like it was a pinstripe,
ironically enough.
But definitely no chance that this
baby was going to make it because
you can just see that this is a mangled mess
about halfway down the body it all twisted up.
And then it didn't absorb any of its yolk
and it was no good, so its stinky too, though.
I just thought I'd show you guys
what happens sometimes when an egg goes bad,
and why it goes bad.
Just going to feed a few snakes today,
but really want to work on
Night Fury's ball training, just to see.
I got some ideas of what I want to do
down in the future.
You can see he's going to come out for the ball.
He's following around.
He knows that something's coming,
he knows there's food.
Then I go ahead and give him a reward
for being awesome.
So the idea here I just
was thinking about it.
What if I had a prop that I could bring out?
A fake tree or something like that
and I could literally lead him out
with this blue ball and into the tree
and actually feed it when we're open for the public.
Again, what we're trying to do is
now that we're going to have 15 hours of slots
we want each one of those hours
to have something really cool.
I'm thinking if I can train Night Fury
to do something, that might be
one cool thing for people to see.
Not sure, still working on the idea,
but again, a lot of brainstorming
how we're going to make this 15 slot
weekend so amazing for everybody.
Daisy has been on fire when
it comes to food lately.
But she's in a spot where I don't really like
because if she misses, she's going to
potentially hit me.
So I'm going to let her
come to me a little bit more.
Just so I can keep a little bit away from her.
There she is. Perfect shot.
Right there. Good job.
I love it when Daisy is really fired up,
because sometimes she gets like
months where she doesn't eat very often.
She'll eat maybe once every couple of weeks.
This last month and a half, two months
she's just been crushing food.
So I'm going to feed her two or three pigs today,
just to keep beefing her up
and making her look awesome.
Casper kind of looks like Night Fury
all the way up.
That's the dangerous part,
because there's a lot of him
to come out of the cage.
I'm definitely going to start
ball training Casper as well.
That's the other animal that I think
would be really cool.
Casper and Night Fury are kind of
my crazy wild horses that strike like maniacs.
So those two are probably good,
and here comes Casper.
Come on buddy, come on.
Come on, come on.
Boy he's in a bad spot,
and I know he's going to miss.
Come on--
Oh, he got it.
Oh doggy. Good job, Casper.
Way to go, buddy.
Finally, Casper did it good
and hit it perfectly.
I wasn't sure that that was going to happen,
but what an absolutely gorgeous snake.
Here with Jessica, which probably means one thing.
What do we got?
- Well, we've got cave Ggckos today.
- [Brian] All right, some more
little baby cave geckos.
Yeah, we've had quite a year with
cave geckos, there's no doubt about it.
What are we doing with them?
Are we just keeping them all?
- No, we're selling them. (laughs)
- Okay, so these will be for sale on the site.
So if you're looking for cave geckos,
you can check them out on the BHB site.
They are so absolutely adorable,
always great to see little babies.
- [Jessica] They look velvety. I like them.
- [Brian] Yeah, they're awesome.
Down in the dungeon! You know what time that means.
- Egg time! Egg time! Egg time!
This first girl actually is a yellow belly.
A big old yellow belly female.
She was just bred to an ivory.
Now a super yellow belly is a
solid white snake with black eyes.
Not a black-eyed Lucy, because it
has a little bit of faint yellow
in it and stuff like that.
But so it was actually bred to a pastel ivory.
So half of these eggs should be
ivory or pastel ivory,
and half of them should be
yellow belly or or pastel yellow belly.
So let's just go ahead.
She is a monster female.
It looks like she's wrapped around
an enormous clutch of eggs.
Look at that, hoo doggy.
Of course we have a couple little eggs
that rolled here.
We'll definitely have to candle them
because we have no idea if they're
on the right side up, or not.
Like even this one right here
was actually rolled over.
Probably this side, and again
candling is pretty easy.
You guys see me do it all the time,
so it's no big deal.
But we'll just go ahead and get
the rest of these eggs off right here.
Get these in the egg box.
Let me tell you what, that's a nice clutch of eggs.
And its so cool that half of these babies
are going to be white and beautiful.
So we got two, four, six, eight,
ten, eleven beautiful eggs.
I tell you, one off from our record for the year, right?
So we have one more clutch to pull.
And this is actually another one of those
possible het sunset clutches.
You know we whiffed on the first one.
You never know what's going to happen.
I've told you kind of the sob story with that.
Not going to go into that anymore.
But we do have another shot.
I think we have one or two more clutches
that we either have to lay
or are already in the incubator.
So I think we have three or four shots
at it this year.
So we'll go ahead and just pull her off.
Definitely has a couple infertile eggs in here,
but we do have some fertile ones as well.
So its not a terrible clutch.
Just pull this egg right here.
Get these eggs over here.
One more egg.
And of course we'll get these slugs out.
Looks like we've got three little sluggers right here.
And then other than that we have
two, four, six good eggs.
So six eggs. Three little sluggers.
Again, on average if it was a het,
one in four could be a sunset.
So hey, there might be one or two
little baby sunsets in there in 57 days.
(bright music)
Next up we have to jump in with Lucy
and like I said, she sheds out perfectly.
It's not often that she doesn't have to
get soaked after a shed.
So that's good.
It means our humidity is
getting into a better spot.
But of course because she's a big snake,
she kind of tore it up in here,
so I'm going to go in.
I'm going to do my best to maybe
leave her alone and not move her, because
she's in a really comfortable spot right now.
So wish me luck.
I'm going to go in and clean this mess up.
Like I always mention,
that is poop soup right there.
So that's not going to smell too well,
but hey, you gotta do what you gotta do.
So let's get in there, clean her up,
and hopefully get away without getting attacked.
(bright music)
I've got my garbage can to protect me.
Right now she's looking like she's going to be good.
You stay good, girl, all right?
You stay good.
Scoop all this poop out first.
All the shed.
(groans) It just splashed me in the face.
(bright music)
Okay. (yells)
Lucy. Lucy.
Stop it.
Knock it off.
Lucy, stop it.
Stop it, Lucy. Can you please go over there?
Go over there. Go over there. Go over there.
Thank you.
Come on, girl.
Come on, there she goes.
Now she's running. That's where I want her to be.
I want her to go away from me.
I really don't know why sometimes
Lucy's like in a really good mood
and sometimes not so much.
Today she seemed to be behaving really well
and then all of a sudden out of nowhere
she started striking, and
you just have to be careful.
Obviously in this enclosure
although its ten foot by eight foot
she has a long enough strike range
where you're always kind of within strike range.
No she's coming over again.
She's obviously in a bad mood.
I just don't know what her problem is today.
It's okay, girl.
I have to still clean her glass.
So I've got to somehow get over here
and get all these smudges out with her sitting there.
So wish me luck.
(bright music)
This is incredible.
Look at where Sunfire is on that.
That's incredible.
She's just starting to look like
she's starting to go into shed.
Not sure if she's going to eat or not.
But we're going to go ahead and
try and see if we can get her to go.
Come on, girl. Do you want to try to eat?
Oh yeah, she's interested.
Look at that-- whoa.
How awesome is that?
She's just going to
hang from that branch and eat.
Oh my gosh. That was incredible.
That really makes you feel like
something you'd see in the wild, right?
With this reach that kind of--
you know, prey comes underneath
grabs it, coils it, hangs on like that.
That is incredible. That was absolutely amazing.
Just a little quick update
with Snap and Pop over here.
You guys remember that I had to
seal up this ledge right here,
because Pop disappeared for a little while.
Remember when I first put them in here
I was concerned about co-habitating them?
I mean, obviously they're
doing amazingly well.
And hopefully with any luck
this next breeding season
they'll actually breed
and we can get some eggs,
because that would be amazing.
But I just had to share it with
you guys, because they look so
cool up there on the ledge.
Last snake I'm actually going to feed
is my girl Perdita here.
She's definitely ready to go.
Are you ready to go? Come on girl.
Come on out here. Come on.
Let's go. Let's go.
Come on, sweetie. Come on.
You got it.
There you go, sweetheart.
Right. Perfect shot.
Again, it's cool the way
she's sitting in there
kind of perched up like that.
So, again, just feeding a few animals today.
So that wraps up snake feeding for the day.
Guess what time it is.
Clue bird Egg time.
And we've got a couple Cal King clutches today,
which is always exciting because
I love perusing California King snakes.
This first one is a second clutch.
It's that entire tracking kind of mosaic Cal King.
Again, she did so well.
This is a beautiful second clutch.
I've mentioned before in the past
that a lot of times fertility isn't that good.
And even the size of actual
clutches aren't as good for the second clutch.
But I remember this girl actually laid
nine eggs in the first clutch.
She laid two, four, six, seven eggs this clutch.
That's not that big of a difference.
That is really good.
The fact that she laid sixteen eggs
between the two clutches is absolutely incredible.
And again, the mosaic is just kind of
a pattern thing, but its a black and white
California King snake, and a lot of them
have kind of more like triangles
and stuff like that on them.
This one has that tire track.
Beautiful black striping on the back of it.
And that is something that's polygenic,
so you can breed it true, which is cool.
These babies should be absolute rippers.
This next clutch is kind of a special clutch.
You might have remembered that Laurie actually
named a California King snake Carol Baskin.
And the reason for that is that this girl here
who's an aberrant black and white
California King snake.
She actually ate two of her mates.
Two of her boyfriends this year she actually ate.
So Laurie actually named her Carol Baskin.
Interestingly enough, she did
lay a first fertile clutch.
And I didn't expect Carol Baskin to lay
another clutch of eggs, because
I don't think that Laurie actually
risked putting another male in.
So I don't know if these are
going to be fertile or not.
But look at that, they are fertile.
Oh my gosh.
The good news is that Carol Baskin's boyfriend
lives on, because he's going to
have some offspring here
with another clutch of eggs.
So there's two clutches from this girl this year,
which is pretty funny.
I have no idea what we're going to do next year,
because she's definitely a serial killer.
She just wants to eat her boyfriends.
I don't know if we're going to
breed her or not next year,
but it is really cool that she got
six more eggs as a second clutch.
Maybe we'll just retire her.
Put Carol Baskin over at the reptarium
and you guys can come see her because
she's got a great story behind her.
That's it for clue bird eggs for the day.
Just wanted to give a quick little
check up of our science project.
That spotted python clutch.
Remember the one that had the really
see-through egg?
Well obviously that one went bad,
but this egg is still pretty see-through.
You can really kind of see that
dark mass in there is actually
the snake growing.
So it's not as clear as the other egg,
but we're still able to kind of see the snake go.
So I think I'm going to turn the lights out
see if we can get a little shine on this thing,
and see if we can actually get the animal
maybe even moving around the egg.
Almost like that scene from alien
where the little monsters crawl around in the egg.
So let's see what we can do.
(bright music)
I really hope that you enjoyed the vlog today,
and I hope that you have an incredible rest
of your day.
I really, really, truly hope that for you.
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