we were here before when we built the incubator for only seven dollars so if you want to see
that that video is in the description below so that you can build your own little incubator
and we put the eggs in we showed you how to do that so you can check out that video too that'll
be in the description too but now we're here and uh the proof is in the pudding right yeah our
cheap little seven dollar incubator worked and now charlie is here with his very first
baby ball python do you want to do you want to show it to us yeah can i talk can i have it on
my hands right so of the three eggs he put in one ended up going bad we got two good ones and right
here he got a spider pied it's a bit of a shame that it's spider because we want to kind of like
have less spiders but we we we basically only have a spider pie banana so we used him and we ended
up hitting a spider pied uh spider pides have no pattern so they look like blue eyed lucy's
and it might have a banana also because i think i see little hints of yellow in
there i don't know what about you do you think we hit the banana maybe it's another
beautiful little snake and now we're going to cut into the other egg and find out what's in there
you want to hold the baby snake yeah well just be gentle look see you have to be very gentle go sit
at the couch nice and gently okay we're gonna cut into the egg because we we want to make
sure that it's very interesting because it's not it's not a in it usually just before they hatch
like they'll be condensed but because this one hatched that should mean that this one is ready
so if it's in there and it's still developing i'm just gonna cut a hole and we're gonna let it be
but if it's ready to come out we might take it out we're gonna we're gonna see but first thing we're
gonna do is we're gonna yeah move it over here and then if we do end up putting it back we're going
to clear all that guck that could make the oh at this point the egg's not going to go bad let's
find out what's in this egg i'm going to pinch it on top and we're going to snip a little bit
so i'm going to let out some goop
and we're going to cut a little and cut a window into the egg okay matthew from the future here i
just want to let you know the reason i'm cutting a window now is because the other snake has already
come out if i was cutting a little bit before they were going to come out i wouldn't cut a
window i would just cut kind of a smaller hole because they'd still probably have to spend some
time in the egg but because the other one already hatched we're cutting a big window it's show time
it's not a normal yay
it looks like we got a spider banana
and it's still developing so we're gonna put it back in the incubator and let it be
but um it's absorbed mostly everything you have to just make sure that it's not um
sometimes it can get caught in the cord so we're gonna make sure that it's head
that we can kind of see its head and that its head's okay otherwise it can get caught up
see how the cord is wrapped around it it can get caught in the cord and uh drown and not
come out so that's what we don't want to happen and that's why we uh cut in in the first place
that's the tail just gonna look for the head oh it's probably in a spider banana
yeah it's a spider banana it looks like because it has stripes that's why it's a spider
this is so cute
i'm finding his head come on where's your head come on be nasty
his head is underneath here
i think it's in here
what are you waiting for do it just do it yes you can just do it
i don't really want to take it out when i get to the head
i can't even find a head
probably
what's in here
come on this tail head inside the sack
see this like the cord i want to get it out of the cord
i'm glad we did this that's the tail
oh this is this the tail
that's the tail
can't get to the head
trying to follow it that is that just the tail there and then the heads over here somewhere
there we go we got the head
is it alive it might not be
because usually
usually they move
you know
okay
i hold the snakes before yeah yeah you're very good at it so unfortunately this one
this one seems like it's dead because usually they'd be moving it looks like it got caught up in
its own cord so this is something that can happen and this is part of why we like to cut into our
eggs i cut into all my ball pythons after the first one hatches and usually when they get to
this point they uh they make it out but this one had the uh the cord i think its head was
stuck on the other side of that cord because it took a heart it was a hard time to get it out
so it basically drowned inside its own fluid it's not moving at all so yeah
unfortunate part about reptile breeding cutting the egg is not what caused that
just in case you think that maybe uh because you can easily cut into the egg
at this point or even earlier and let them develop on their own until they are ready to come out and
that's what i'll be doing on all of my eggs anyway so hopefully you learned something from this
and it sucks that we had this uh sad ending but at least we got one really nice good one
baby snakes will have a little bit of like the goop on them so i like to always give
them a little rinse in some lukewarm water just to get that stuff off we'll set them up
on some damp paper towel and just by doing this the first day that they're born
you get to spend a little bit of time handling them so that from day one right out of the egg
they know that you're there handling them and that will help them to be more comfortable with
you and just know that you're just a normal part of their life here's another little
fun fact snakes have implic had umbilical cords that attach to the yolk inside the egg
and you can see that right here so it absorbed everything sometimes they don't fully absorb it
all so there's a little bit hanging out and they gotta stay in the incubator a little longer until
they absorb that see avery that's the snake's belly button and some people wonder how snakes
poo and stuff and everything's in there so this is how we can find out if it's a boy or a girl either
and we can we can do that right now because it's pretty don't do it it's a baby right
when they're born you know this is easy to do it you could wait till their first shed but
everything is nice and soft now so it'll be able to pop easily if it's a boy or
girl so i push down the butt and i roll up and get a little boy we have a girl yay
yeah i'm so happy to go with daddy yeah we got a girl i'm so happy so we got a cute little girl
and i'm going to hike you named her hike i know my name's lida lita yeah okay yeah i think she's
banana so you got a banana spider pied you can see the yellow yeah yeah i see kind of some that
i feel like that momentum will totally find out more when she has a shed right hold on