Heather - Guess what, guys?!
I get back from vacation and Bill's got a surprise today!
What do you got, Bill?
Bill - Baby Uros.
Skeeter Buck and Skeeter Doe's eggs hatched!
Bill - There's one.
Heather - They hatched today.
Heather - He... what'd you have... you had to cut open the eggs?
- Yeah. There's another one. They're fat.
Heather - They are chunky.
Bill - And this one...
They're covered with vermiculite.
This one right here is kinda just coming out of the egg and
then this one, I'm not sure what's gonna happen with that.
Heather - I don't know. Maybe he's still sleepin'.
Bill - Yeah.
Heather - That's cool. So we might have five babies?
Bill - Yeah.
Heather - If this little guy comes out.
Bill - These are doing a lot better than the first one. The first one I had to
cut out because he was stuck halfway in the egg.
He ended up passing away, Heather - Aw...
Bill - But... but that's how... I was like "Okay. I need to cut the eggs"
and that definitely is why they're still alive.
I think this one was... this one's been out just maybe less than an hour.
Heather - He's like "I'm so tired!"
Bill - And this one's... he's kinda coming around.
Heather - He is... he's just... he's just so sleepy.
Gosh! Look how fat he is! That's so funny.
They're so pretty.
Bill - But like this one seems like it's got a lot of red on it.
This one's got some red on it, but it's got like more of the striping on the side.
Heather - Oh yeah.
Bill - I'm sure they got some of their yolk... Heather - Yeah.
- just because they weren't incubated at the proper temperature, so it's... they're probably
just absorbing more of that, that they would have, you know, at the right temperature, they would
have absorbed that before they hatched.
Heather - They were a few degrees cooler.
- Yes, so I'm actually very surprised that this happened at the temperatures they were, so...
And they look... I mean, they look okay.
Heather - Yeah, they look fine.
They're very fat. I can't get over how fat this one is!
Bill - Yeah.
Heather - Oh my goodness!
There you go.
Well, I hope this little one comes out on Monday.
Bill - Yeah, we were just gonna... I talked to Haley about it.
Probably just gonna get a 10 gallon and put them over there and just put
newspaper or paper towel down for the first week... couple weeks.
Heather - And then when they start eating, we get to sprinkle poop on their greens!
Bill - And then they'll be ready to... ready to go.
Heather - All right, guys, so it is Monday morning,
and all five are out. Four over there
and the other one... he went and hid under the rock again! (laughs)
Oh, he's so silly!
But... yeah, we got... These guys are out.
This one's REALLY chunky.
But... yeah, they are doing great,
and yeah, we're excited.
It was the first... is this the first time we've ever had them hatch at the store, Bill?
Bill - Yes.
Heather - Yeah, we've never had uromastyx hatch at the store before
so it's quite exciting and they're awfully cute.
Bill went ahead and powdered all the... all the poop we've been collecting.
Bill - Yeah.
Heather - Here, we'll show you that. Here's the Skeeter Poo.
He went ahead and crushed...
Bill - We'll sprinkle a little bit of that on their food once a day for a couple weeks.
Heather - Yeah.
Bill - To inoculate them.
Heather - I don't think they're gonna start eating yet because they're full of yolk. You can see that
they're very fat, so we'll wait a little bit before that happens, but...
We don't want to disturb them too much. I'm not gonna pick them up and everything
because we gotta let them rest.
Here's Mr. Skeeter Buck. Here's Daddy.
Skeeter Doe didn't want to come out.
There's dad and there's baby.
That's your baby!
And they inherited your beautiful coloration on your back too.
Yeah, that's your babies.
Yeah.
What you think?
He's like "I don't... I don't know. I don't know what to think."
He's like "What are those strange little creatures that look like me?"