- [Brian] Beautiful animal, let's hope
we have some better luck.
Ah, there we go, all right!
- Dude, that's awesome, look at that!
(Laurie laughs)
(upbeat music)
- Hey, good morning everybody, and welcome to the vlog.
As you can see, I'm actually going through
and checking calubras to see if we've got any eggs,
so I'm gonna pull a few clutches.
But I thought, you know, you guys always see me
pulling clutches, why don't I get Laurie and Noah involved?
After all, Noah's done all the hard work along with Eric
so we might as well have them pull these clutches
while we're going too, so I'll go get them
and we'll pull some clutches.
(upbeat music)
So like I said, I always get kind of all the pleasure
of pulling the clutches, which I think is, like,
the funnest part besides hatching, maybe.
But you kinda get left out of the thing.
And Noah, have you ever pulled a clutch of eggs ever?
- No.
- All right, so this is a good way to kinda share,
so how do we wanna do it?
Do you wanna pull the first clutch, Laurie,
and maybe, Noah, you can help?
I have no idea.
- Let's just go for it, okay?
- [Brian] Phoebe, you can't be in the way, girl.
- [Noah] You get the box ready, okay?
- [Brian] I think Phoebe wants to help too.
- She can help, okay?
You're gonna grab the eggs out, okay?
- [Brian] Phoebe, you're not grabbing no eggs out,
you stay here, all right?
So what we have here is actually a heifer
black motley scaleless corn snake, and it's spread to
an anerythristic het for scaleless
and possibly het motley as well, so you can just
pull this box out, we're gonna just take that lid off.
And we're just gonna take the mama snake out.
Oh, it looks like we got some bad eggs and some good eggs.
A little bit of both here.
We're gonna take the mama out, just basically make sure
that she doesn't have any eggs left.
(Laurie laughs)
- You can do it. - Noah, take the mom out.
- [Noah] I don't wanna.
- [Laurie] She's nice.
- [Brian] You don't wanna mama?
- Just do it, you don't hesitate. (laughs)
- All right, lift the shed, take the shed out,
we're gonna get some water in there,
and then we can check and see how many eggs there are.
There's actually two, four good eggs and it looks like
three bad eggs, so not exactly the best clutch,
but, again, this is that old group of het scaleless
that we always have fertility issues with, so, but overall,
I mean, the groups have been going pretty good, Laurie, huh?
- Yeah, they have.
- You're gonna need to candle this one, guys.
Okay, 'cause it's loose, okay?
We need to find the embryo and make sure it's on top.
(Brian laughs)
- Someone's been watching the vlog. (laughs)
Basically all we're gonna do is
just get these four eggs here. - [Noah] Got a little slugger.
- We've got two more clutches, so hopefully
we'll have a little bit better luck.
Do you see anything in there, Laurie?
- [Laurie] Yeah, there's a little.
- Next up is actually a het snow scaleless corn
bred to a scaleless snow, check this out, Noah,
is this thing cool or what?
- Man, that's albino.
(Brian laughs)
- [Brian] That's right.
- [Laurie] Snow makes a snow. (laughs)
- Exactly, and of course is a snow is an anerythristic
and an albino, which is lacking both
the flag pigment and the red pigment,
making this kinda real pinkish looking snake,
but let's go ahead and see how many eggs we have in here.
Hopefully we'll have a really good clutch here.
Go ahead, Noah, there you go, you do the honors, Noah.
- [Noah] So we're gonna pop it open like that, okay?
Okay, so she's a little buried right now.
- Let's just go ahead and take a look
and see what she's got going on.
Okay, she's got a couple, we just wanna make sure
that she's done laying, looks like she's done laying,
so I'm just gonna go ahead, pull her out, she looks good.
Looks like mama is done, for sure,
we'll go ahead and put her in here.
Again, as always, we'll get the shed out, get the water in,
all that type of stuff, and then let's take a look and see
a little closer on these eggs right here.
So it looks like pretty similar clutch to the last clutch.
- Four and two?
- [Brian] Four and two.
- [Laurie] She was a pretty small girl.
- No, there's a three, there's a three.
Was is it, this slugger?
- [Brian] Oh, yeah, that's a slug, yup.
- [Noah] So it's the same.
- So it's the, that's crazy, this is four good eggs
and three bad eggs, and this is actually a female
from the new one, and the snow scaleless has been doing good
this year so I don't really know what's going on,
but looks like that's it for that clutch.
Definitely a small clutch, not exactly rewarding.
We've got one more clutch, let's hope this one's better.
- I feel like you planned this 'cause when I watch your vlog
you pull like 15, oh, 15 perfect eggs.
(Laurie laughs)
All we're getting is slugs, this is rigged, man.
- That's right, I think it's 'cause you guys are bad luck,
so this may be the last time I allow them to pull eggs.
- You're rigging it, you're rigging it.
- Right? (Brian laughs)
- All right, let's hope these guys can redeem themselves,
because I'm pretty disappointed in you.
- It's not us. - [Brian] It's not you guys?
- No!
- Well, normally I have good clutches
so I gotta blame somebody.
- It's the old snakes.
- Ah, that's true.
This is actually from the old group here,
you can see it's old and this is actually
a postad scaleless snow, and this is, again,
bred to that snow scaleless, so beautiful animal,
let's hope we have some better luck.
Ah, there we go!
- [Noah] There we go.
- [Brian] All right, it's not a big clutch
but it's a beautiful clutch.
- I do see a slug, I'm pretty--
- [Brian] You see a slug, where?
- That looks a little discolored.
- [Brian] Oh, on the bottom, the very bottom,
but overall this is beautiful, I mean,
that's a nice clutch of eggs right there.
But those in real quick, we can pick her up.
- [Noah] Okay, pull her out?
- [Brian] Yup, pull her out, we'll put her back in.
- [Noah] Take the shed out, obviously.
- Yup, take the shed out, we'll get some water in with her,
we'll just mark up the egg box.
All right, seven good eggs, one little tiny slug,
so that basically wraps up the first time
that these guys have helped me pull snake eggs.
So down in the comments let me know,
should I keep them going or should I say no more?
Because it wasn't exactly the best of luck today.
- That's messed up, I wanna do ball pythons.
- Oh, okay, well I think we might have a clutch downstairs
we'll have to check on later, but regardless,
that wraps up the calubras for the day.
What in the heck?
Perdita is always kinda doing crazy stuff.
She is definitely a very active snake, and we are actually
feeding a bunch of stuff at the Reptarium today
and my girl Verde the anaconda, who is in that back corner
right there is gonna try to get fed again.
Still only eating live chicks and then
choo choo training rodents, but we're gonna give it a shot.
The last time she actually didn't take the rodent.
To be honest with you, I think the last two times
she didn't take the rodent, so I'm a little bit nervous
about, like, can we finally get her to eat again?
Regardless, I'm gonna go ahead and head to the store.
(laughs) One of my favorite stores, that family farm store.
We're gonna go pick up a chicken, I gotta get
some hay for the tortoises anyway,
so let's go ahead and get on the road,
we'll get back and we'll feed a bunch of cool snakes.
(upbeat music)
Feel like every time I come to this store
I say how much I love it here, but thinking about
getting a shirt, either the huge chick magnet
or chasing chickens is my cardio, maybe I'll get both.
I decided for the chick magnet,
Laurie's gonna hate this shirt.
So I'm getting hay today and one chick for Verde.
(chicks cheeping)
And yes, I do think these are absolutely adorably cute,
I hate having to feed 'em, but Verde needs to eat
so I get this and then head back to the shop.
Insert joke there.
So Laurie, how do you like my new shirt?
(Laurie chuckles)
(Brian laughs)
You like it?
Think it's pretty good, huh?
(Laurie laughs)
- So what do you think it says? (laughs)
- [Brian] What's it say, chick magnet, right?
- Yeah, did you not notice this part?
- [Woman] Huge cock. (laughter)
- Did you not know that that's what it said?
'Cause that's what I saw! (laughs)
(laughter)
I don't think you're gonna wear that one. (laughs)
- Okay, we gotta take the shirt off now.
(Laurie laughs)
- [Laurie] He bought a shirt that says huge cock. (laughs)
(Noah laughs)
(Laurie laughs)
- Okay, so I misread the shirt a little bit,
I thought the shirt was like a mother chicken,
and, oh my god, okay, I'm not gonna wear the shirt anymore.
- Please take it off. (Laurie laughs)
- I'm going back to my stay positive shirt.
- Hey, Eric, look at this shirt Brian bought.
What do you think?
- Dude, that's awesome, look at that, huge, oh.
(Laurie laughs)
I see.
I mean, it's a cool shirt, don't get me wrong,
it's just weird around any schools.
- [Brian] I didn't see it!
- Dude, I thought chick magnet.
- That's what he saw, too. (laughs)
- Yeah, that's, I can't even say it out loud.
(Laurie laughs)
- I'm upset that Laurie's getting
so much enjoyment out of this.
- You know, if you made it a sleeveless
it'd be a great shirt. (Laurie laughs)
- [Brian] Oh my god, I'm such a...
(Laurie laughs)
I'm very embarrassed by this, that I didn't get it.
- What did the lady at the checkout do
when she looked at it?
- That's what I said, that's what I said!
- I'm never going back there again.
(Laurie laughs)
- [Laurie] She's probably like, hmm. (laughs)
- Whatever you say, guy. (Laurie laughs)
- What are they selling that shirt at a farm store for?
Why are they selling it at a farm store?
- Spencer's Gifts shirt, all day.
- Right? (laughs) - Oh my god, oh boy.
Down in the dungeon with Kelsey and this is kinda of
an interesting scenario, this is much like I thought
might happen with Lucy, is the fact that this girl
actually laid an egg, what, about four or five days ago?
And then stopped laying and then of course looks like
she laid the rest of her clutch, which is something
that happens pretty commonly, and that's really
what I thought was gonna happen with Lucy.
Unfortunately that didn't happen with Lucy,
but we do have a ball python clutch,
so let's go ahead and pull it.
And what did we breed here?
- She is a het caramel bred to a spider het caramel male.
- Okay, so just a couple hets, so we get some
spider caramel males and stuff like that.
Let's see what she has as far as this goes.
Again, she laid one egg a little bit ago.
Oh, those look great!
- [Kelsey] Wow.
- Oh my gosh, that's actually a big clutch.
Holy moley!
Oh my gosh.
Good job, mama.
Way to go, that is amazing.
Holy cow, we've got, what?
Two, four, six, eight, and one is nine eggs.
That is a nine egg clutch, and again, that just goes to show
that during snake breeding things like that happen
where they'll lay one egg and then days later
lay the rest of the clutch, or in Lucy's case,
they end up binding up, that's just part of the journey.
So if you guys are ever breeding snakes and you have one
that lays an egg, you don't have to panic.
So this is what happens oftentimes.
But at the same time I was a little concerned
that maybe it would get bound up, in this case
it ended up great with nine great eggs.
As always, good job, Kelsey.
- Thank you.
- So it's that time I'm gonna feed some stuff over here.
I've got all my rodents laid out, should be a good time.
And hopefully Verde will take that chick and we can
choo choo train her a rat, continue to get some size on her
so she eventually switches over to rodents
and becomes a big anaconda.
Might as well get started with the maniac Casper,
definitely an animal that when he strikes, if your hand's
anywhere in the way you're gonna get bit.
(upbeat music)
(laughs) I tell you what, Casper is a handful,
but so is Sunfire, she can be a pistol as well.
So let's go ahead and get her fed too today.
Come on, girl, come on.
Come on, come on,
I tell you, there's nothing like that feeling when they're
coming up like that, you're like, holy cow, if she misses
she's gonna hit, but she is such a beautiful snake.
I'm gonna give her probably three or four rats to
get her beefed up 'cause I really wanna get her onto rabbit
and she's not quite taking 'em yet.
Once she starts eating rabbit
she's gonna just explode in size.
But nonetheless, beautiful snake.
(upbeat music)
So you can see she's just finishing up the chick now,
so basically what I need to do is again try to somehow
see if I can't get it to where as she's finishing up,
putting the rat right in her mouth.
She is not happy about it at all.
But we're gonna do our best we can do here.
'Cause I've got it in her mouth now, so I can just
convince her that this rat is part of her meal.
She is really smart in the sense that she knows this gig
and I've done it to her a couple times now
and she's trying to get smarter on it.
Think I might have her.
Just a couple more chews and I think I'm good to go.
Kay, I think that was it, I think that's the bite.
One more bite and I think we're good to go.
There it is, that was the bite I was looking for.
Now I can gently set this down and you can see
she's starting to drag it like it's in her mouth
and I think one more little chew right there
without me holding it and we're good.
I think she's already got it in her mouth far enough
where she's not gonna spit it out.
But I tell you what, she definitely fought me a little bit.
And there we go, we're good to go, whoo doggy!
Yes, sir, that'll be another good meal.
I tell you, she is smart, though.
She was totally knowing how to go about it
to where I couldn't get her, she would pull away
at the last second an I almost missed her again.
So thank gosh, all right, good.
Now we got a rat in her, one step closer
to getting this girl big.
(upbeat music)
While the snakes are eating and stuff like that
I'm gonna go ahead and feed some of the monitor lizards
and again we're doing target training with all of 'em now,
including Abasuko, relatively fresh with Abasuko
as far as the target training, but already she's starting
to get the feel for it, so let's hope for the best.
(upbeat music)
And you can see how absolutely smart she is.
I mean, within one time she's already going for that ball,
she knows ball means food, so that is gonna be really good.
Again, much like Artemis Prime if she starts only going
for good when she sees the ball it's gonna be much better
because she's a really good animal she's just really
food aggressive, so we're making great strides there.
(upbeat music)
Next up is Tazi here.
Tazi, you wanna eat, bud?
(upbeat music)
Now I don't really give Taz or the other monitors rodents
that often, to be honest with you, I want lots of variety.
But every now and then rodents are really good for 'em,
so maybe once every two weeks or so
I'll give 'em a bunch of frozen rodents.
Got that full body thing going on, lots of calcium,
it's actually good, but overdoing can build up
too much fat here on the liver, so regardless,
Tazi loves his treat when it comes to mice.
Ready?
(upbeat music)
There we go.
Maybe Tazi's done. (laughs)
He's always like a dainty eater.
All right, let's get on to feeding something else.
Next up is Perdita, I absolutely feeding this girl.
She is looking absolutely incredible.
(upbeat music)
There you go, girl.
There you go, sweetheart.
She definitely is a good eater, I mean, I tell you,
I don't know that she's ever refused food,
even when she's in shed, sometimes, she eats.
(upbeat music)
Next up is Night Fury.
How you doing, bud?
Whoa!
Someone must be hungry.
Yeah.
Yeah, that's unusual, I've never seen him come out like that
so that's pretty awesome, so he was definitely hungry.
That's gonna be a nice big rat for him.
(upbeat music)
Next up we're gonna feed Elvis a bunch of little rodents.
Again, he hasn't had a rodent in quite a while.
Come on, Elvis, come on.
Come on.
There you go, buddy.
Okay.
(upbeat music)
And last thing we'll get him back over by his cage,
come on bud, come on, over here, all the way over here.
All the way over here, there we go, buddy.
And there's your reward, buddy. (laughs)
Absolutely love Elvis, what an amazing animal,
and he wolfed down a lot of rodents really quick.
Again that varied diet is only gonna do good for those guys.
He is unbelievable, I love feeding reptiles.
(upbeat music)
There's just something about feeding reptiles
that's really rewarding, I think it's the fact
that when they eat you know that they're healthy, right?
Because it's like, oh my god, it ate.
And when it doesn't you're like, why didn't it eat
or whatever, the thing that's nice here at the zoo
is that pretty much every snake eats every time,
which is really awesome.
With BHB there is just so many animals that some animals
don't every week, so here it's always so great
to just go around and feed everything,
unless it's deep in shed they all seem to eat.
So that wraps the feeding portion of this vlog.
I'm gonna go ahead and end the vlog here and wish you guys
an amazing day, evening, whenever you happen to be watching.
As always, I truly love your support, you guys are amazing.
Be kind to someone, and I promise
I will see you guys tomorrow.
(upbeat music)