(calming music)
(water splashing)
- Guys I am super excited.
For a long time I've wanted to come down,
and hang out with Blake, at Blake's Exotic Animal Ranch.
As always, I put a link in the description.
Go show him some love,
tell him I sent you.
We have a bunch of veggies here.
What are we doing?
- We're gonna go feed a bunch of tortoises,
see a bunch of animals,
and show you the ranch.
- Let's do this, it's gonna be amazing.
Let's go!
And the thing that's so great about Blake's place
is that this is all for him, you know?
So many times, you guys know,
I'm aspiring to always open up to the public,
do these things.
This is Blake's little area.
Not interested in opening to the public,
not interested in anything,
you just wanted this as your area.
- This is what I call it, my little Noah's Ark.
- [Brian] This is your little Noah's Ark?
Well, we've got a Noah with us,
so that's perfect.
- There you go. (both laughing)
- Everywhere you look, there's more animals and,
Wow, just look at this.
we've got yellow-foots here,
red-foots over here.
- Yeah, there's a group in here about 5.20.
- [Brian] 5.20?
- And then there's 2.10 of yellow-foots.
- [Brian] Wow.
- [Blake] An Eastern that's like a 5.20 as well.
A lot. - [Brian] Oh my goodness.
- And we can show you inside a bunch of babies.
- [Brian] Babies. - It's the end of season
right now, so there's really not many eggs,
but everyone's breeding up a storm.
And yeah, so pretty much all I do every single day
is just throw veggies and fruits all around.
- [Brian] Really? - And let them find it.
I never put it in one spot really,
because, they're wild. - [Brian] Kind of enrichment.
Yeah?
- In the wild it doesn't stop one spot.
You know what I mean? - [Brian] Exactly.
- So I just throw the stuff all around.
- [Brian] Wow. - I just do this every day.
- [Brian] Oh my God. Really?
- [Blake] It's my thing, yeah.
- [Brian] Let me throw one.
- But we can keep some apples as well if you want,
and we can go feed them to the cow and everything,
so I'll put some to the side actually.
- [Brian] Oh Gosh. Yeah, perfect.
And we can use these things
and he'll just swallow 'em whole.
- [Brian] Swallow 'em whole?
Oh my gosh.
- Yeah, that's it, this is all we do.
I just do this all day long and go around.
- [Brian] So everyday, you've got to
go through this much food, pretty much?
- Yeah, I go through it all.
I get it donated too.
A good buddy of mine has a cool spot
and he gives me everything.
- [Brian] That's awesome.
I mean, that's amazing.
- Yeah, I've been doing this for eight years now.
- [Brian] Exactly, that's amazing.
- That's right, because this is all going in the garbage
and it's perfectly fine.
You can eat this stuff. - [Brian] Right?
Yeah, and put it to good use.
- Sometimes the plants just grow naturally,
like these papayas, I grow them around,
and that papaya tree grew in the last three months.
- [Brian] Oh! Really?
- So, now I'm going to have my fresh papaya.
- [Brian] Oh my God, it's awesome.
- [Blake] Look who's coming right now.
You can take a little fruit
and you can hand that to him, he'll eat it whole.
- [Brian] Let's go, come on.
Here you go.
(pig grunting)
(woman laughing)
- [Brian] You want some fruit?
- [Blake] Nope.
- [Brian] He says, "nope"
Hey, come here.
- [Blake] Nope, he don't want it today.
Eat that up, bro.
There you go.
He just actually, like, shed and everything.
He was all black looking,
and he just peeled completely
and got a whole nice, fresh, little coat.
All the hair falls off and it all comes back.
- [Brian] Wow.
- And It happens every year.
These are like cherry heads.
- [Brian] Oh, yeah, they're beautiful ones too.
- [Blake] I can show you a really nice if I can find it.
- [Brian] Oh yeah. - They're all juveniles.
It should be all ready to breed in the next,
probably two years. - [Brian] Right.
- [Blake] That'd be pretty cool,
a nice big little group there.
- [Brian] Are you doing cherry heads yet
or this is your first cherry heads?
- These are my first year heads.
- [Brian] Oh, okay. Cool.
- I had groups of red foots and everything,
but cherries will be next.
- [Brian] Yeah, that's awesome.
There he is.
- Louis' always the easiest one to get.
- [Brian] Ah! That's good, yeah.
- And then, the specs, they're just so fast.
- [Brian] A little towards there.
- Yeah, but a little American Alligator.
You have one of these, right?
- [Brian] Yeah, we have a little bit of them.
Yeah, we have a few of them, but we love them, you know,
they're just the puppy dogs of the crocodile world.
You know? - Yeah, not like the specs.
- Those specs, not fun.
- [Brian] That is it, yeah.
- I had a guy for two years now, a little guy.
- [Brian] That's awesome.
That's pretty cool.
- [Blake] I love it, so.
- Get out of here, buddy.
Oh, you did good.
I'm glad that he didn't get that.
If you were to accidentally got the speck,
it might've been a little bit of a different story.
- [Blake] Oh yeah, they are spicy.
They hiss, they're crazy,
they are different.
These are Burmese Black Mountain Tortoises.
That's a big female.
That is a sexed male, so that should be a parent,
and these two I'm not too sure of.
- [Brian] Okay.
- But she should actually be almost ready to breed,
in the next, hopefully. - [Brian] Almost.
- Year or two. - [Brian] Really?
- Yeah.
- [Brian] Yeah, because these are big tortoises.
- Yeah, the were, like,
considered the fourth largest Tortoise family.
Cool thing about them is they don't lay in the dirt,
they make a big nest like crocodiles.
- [Brian] Oh, really?
- [Blake] So they make the pile of leaves,
and then they put the eggs inside the leaves.
- [Brian] I've always loved them.
I mean, they remind me a little,
like Aldabras or Galaps.
- Definitely, yeah.
- [Brian] Like little- - They look like a Galap.
If you put my Galap over here right now,
he's gonna look the same.
- [Brian] Yeah, it looks almost identical, it's so wild.
- [Blake] They're considered, like,
one of the most ancient tortoises too.
- [Brian] Really. - Yeah, real cool.
And they'll eat, like, meat.
They'll eat rats and stuff, like, they wanna eat my toes.
- [Brian] Really?
- Oh yeah, they're crazy.
- [Brian] I didn't realize that.
- And they had a whole pile of fruits and veggies yesterday,
but they don't stop eating.
- [Brian] Yeah.
Are these guys like a little bit more tropical?
- Yeah. - [Brian] Yeah.
- They love the rain and all that stuff.
They're in the jungles and everything.
- [Brian] Exactly.
These are little Reeve's muntjac deer.
This is going to be an enclosure for probably like
all Asian animals, really,
'cause these guys are from Asia,
so I was thinking to actually put the mountain tortoises
in here with them. - [Brian] Oh okay.
- And then, this is going to be an aviary as well.
- [Brian] Oh, so you're going to put screening,
netting in this section. - Yeah,
so that's why I have those two big holes here.
I'm going to put this, close it all up.
And there's going to be,
what I really want to focus on here is probably,
like, Asian fruit doves.
So they have really, really bright colors
and really cool colors.
And not a lot of people work with them,
so gonna be a cool species of bird to put in here.
- [Brian] My gosh.
- [Blake] There's a lot of different types of them.
Why not try?
- [Brian] Yeah.
Well, again, I love that about you.
You're like working with things that are just,
like, for you, you know?
- My property is only two acres,
so it's starting to like, I guess, fill up,
so why not start working upward?
- [Brian] (laughing) Oh yeah.
- That's why I did the building so big too.
So two stories.
- [Brian] Yeah.
- Bark at you two times,
smell your feet, and then you're ready to go.
- Are you kidding me?
- [Blake] I've had him since he was
smaller than he could know.
The size of his foot. - [Brian] Look at that.
Oh, he's 10 months old, he was this little big.
- [Brian] What's up, buddy?
- I was feeding him with a syringe for two months,
every two hours.
So I'm dad, my mom's mom, and yeah.
- [Brian] Hey, buddy.
- [Noah] Hi bud.
- [Blake] And we just walk over here,
and he'd just come over here.
But yeah, he followed me wherever I go,
- [Brian] Yeah, that's awesome.
- [Blake] So he's on to me,
like, he'll go in the pond,
but he won't go deep.
He'll only go really in the pond
if I go in the pond with him.
(Brian laughing)
- [Blake] So, like, he has to follow me, see?
- [Brian] Oh my gosh.
Of course, you guys know
that I want an Asian Small Clawed Otter.
Well, I want a pair of them to be honest with you so.
- Yeah, definitely get a pair
'cause he is a handful.
'Cause at night he's like this.
- [Brian] He needs a mate.
Oh my gosh.
- [Blake] Yeah, he's attached.
- [Brian] They are so crazy, look at this.
Wow.
- [Blake] See? I go out, he goes out.
(Brian laughing)
- I'll stand right over here.
So you guys can enjoy him,
and so he's a cool guy.
- [Brian] Oh my gosh.
- [Noah] Hey buddy. - [Brian] Hey guy.
- [Blake] Go say hi, Oliver.
- [Brian] Hi, Oliver.
- [Noah] 'Sup, Ollie?
- [Brian] Hi, Oliver.
Yes.
- [Man] What do you think?
- [Blake] Very, very touchy little guys,
so cool little guys. - [Brian] Yeah?
- They just love to and hold stuff all day long.
In the last two months he has became a cat.
He climbs everything.
- [Brian] Really?
- He's on everything,
sink, everything.
Just jumps up on everything.
- [Man] Hey, buddy boy.
- [Brian] Hi, Oliver.
- The reason why I did this fencing over here,
so the whole thing is six foot regulations and that,
but I made it this side eight foot
so that when you look into the enclosure, it looks taller.
It looks bigger. - [Brian] Oh, I see, gotcha.
- So all these pulls on this side,
it's gonna look a lot bigger,
instead of being six foot right to your face.
- [Brian] Yeah right, exactly.
- Yeah, so that's gonna be netting going all the way up,
but this won't get done for a little while,
because that's the main focus right now.
- [Brian] Yeah, you're doing the other aviary up.
- Yeah, definitely,
- [Brian] And then ultimately-
- I'll have a really cool building getting placed there
that not too many people know yet,
but they'll see that soon.
- [Brian] Okay, yeah.
- [Blake] It's gonna be really cool.
- You got to watch his channel to find out
what's going to happen with this cement slab.
- [Blake] Stay tuned for that.
- [Brian] Yeah, stay tuned.
- I really kind of abandoned that spot.
I dedicated that area to be it's aquaponics to grow tilapia,
so that I could feed my otters and feed my monster fish.
- [Brian] Oh
- [Blake] So if I ran out of money,
or whatever it is,
and the supermarket is closed,
I can go in there and scoop up fish and feed it.
All organic, everything fed by me,
and I don't have to worry about pesticides,
or any of that crazy stuff. - [Brian] Self-sustained,
that's a good idea.
- Exactly.
- [Brian] Come on, do you want this?
Wanna come over?
Come on over.
It's good.
Come on.
There you go, buddy.
Ah!
He finally likes me.
- [Blake] This is just naturalistic little enclosures
and everything.
And in here we have spotted-leg wood turtles,
Ecuadorian wood turtles,
all different types of stuff.
I was actually one of the first ones to produce these guys.
Nobody wanted to work with them.
- [Brian] Really?
- [Blake] And there were just like little $25 turtles
that were just brought in from imports.
And I've had them out for like four years
and I've been producing them left and right.
- [Brian] Oh my gosh. They're cool.
- Real personable, really cool little pet turtle.
- So naturalistic.
- [Blake] You know, a garden state tortoise?
- [Brian] Yeah, of course, yeah.
- [Blake] I was talking to him a lot,
and been friends with him for like 10 years.
- [Brian] Yeah. - And I saw
all the ponds he makes.
- [Brian] Yeah. - I made it just like that.
- [Brian] Yeah, he's a good dude, man.
He's really good.
I was out there years ago.
Really cool guy.
Tell me how you put up netting.
This is probably 18 foot high.
- I've been talking to a lot of, like,
experts that have actually built aviaries
and everything. - [Brian] Yeah.
- Zoos and everything like that.
So the way this is going to be going is
I had to climb to the top.
Maybe get some type of boom or something,
we're placing eye-hooks,
eight eye-hooks on top of that pole,
because there has to be a rope
to every single one of these poles.
- [Brian] Oh, right.
- So, it come down to it and come straight down,
so then I can get like, a pulley system,
and tie it down to make it tight.
Then there'll be one perimeter rope
going all the way around.
So the whole goal is,
so the netting's going to be up there like a tent,
come out to those poles,
and then drop straight down.
- [Brian] Straight down, that way you can--
- So it'll be like a giant baseball net,
but with that peak,
so that there's not a sag.
- [Brian] Exactly, not a sag.
- Yeah, so that's the goal,
and more trees, more trees,
so the trees could grow.
And then all these poles,
I actually just brought in some vines and stuff,
that my buddy gave me.
All the poles would be covered the vines,
so the poles are not shown.
- [Brian] Yeah. - All natural,
I'll put branches, tree boxes, everything.
So much more work has to be placed in here,
camera's, like.
- [Brian] Oh my gosh. - It's a big process,
but I've been thinking
and I want to get it done once and once done only.
- [Brian] Yeah. Well you--
- That's why I'm taking my time.
- [Brian] This is amazing, so ultimately,
Blake is going to make this into a giant aviary.
Anyone that follows his channel knows it.
That's where I saw about it myself.
Of course, they have this amazing pond right here,
that used to just be like a mud pit
that now this entire area is going to be an aviary,
and I mean, look at this.
This isn't natural, you guys made this.
- Yeah, you pass this little area
and then the waterfall crashes.
- [Brian] I mean, you guys made this,
that's what's so incredible - [Blake] Yeah.
Before Greg and everybody came.
I went out and I had a buddy that does landscaping.
They were taking down some Oak trees
that were permitted to come out.
(donkey screeching)
(Brian laughing)
- And I made it as natural as I can.
Different trees, different logs,
placed it in here.
- [Brian] It looks great.
(donkey screeching)
- I can tell the donkey's excited too. (laughing)
I mean, it's crazy to have this in your backyard.
- These turtles, they own the pond.
They can go up on the bank,
they can go wherever they want,
and do what they want.
The fish are obviously pretty good fed.
They just eat everything,
and, yeah, they live life.
Really rare species of Guinea fowl,
but they're hybrids,
They're mixed or the normal Guinea fowl will balance.
So the two females, I wish they were a purebreds,
but they weren't.
The purebreds are real tall.
Crazy, crazy bird.
But, hopefully, maybe I can get a male
and maybe get them back to like vulture guineas.
- [Brian] Yeah.
- Get some females and stuff.
- [Brian] And then these guys are crazy cool.
- [Blake] Very, very curious, they're very young.
I had 'em since they were little, teeny hatchlings,
and Tyler Nolan's actually put one on my leg.
So I have a Nigerian dwarf goats.
I've had goats for now 14 years.
I have a pair of miniature donkeys.
I'll show you them.
They're painted donkeys.
I used to breed them like crazy,
but then I really slowed down
and just really focused onto the tortoises.
- [Brian] Right.
- So this is just like my little hobby,
and my little fun thing that that I have.
(goat screeching)
- And then that's Benny, her boyfriend that gets pissed off.
(Brian laughing)
- [Brian] It's not fair.
- [Blake] All females inside of here,
male on that side.
- [Brian] I was about to say--
- [Blake] Yeah, separate 'em,
so they don't breed.
If not, they breed nonstop.
That's a little boy,
but he's just got sold. - [Brian] Wow.
- [Blake] So you can take an apple,
and you just put the whole thing in her mouth, no problem.
- [Brian] Oh, you are something else.
- I've had her for about 12 years too now,
and she's just a cool girl.
(guys laughing)
- [Brian] Noah, get over here.
- 'Cause, I mean, you see cows everywhere,
but to go and hang out with a cow is really, really dope.
So that's why it's pretty dope.
- [Noah] Wow. - [Brian] Come here, bud.
Oh.
- Never been bred, she looks like she's a fricking bull.
- [Brian] She is a giant.
- Enormous, man, enormous.
You want a little?
- [Noah] Do you want a little something donkey donkey?
- [Blake] And that's Benny.
- [Noah] Get it, Benny.
- [Blake] And then this is Captain right here.
He's a smelly little guy,
but that's what male. - [Brian] Here you go, bud.
- [Blake] Goats smell like.
- [Blake] What happened, Tush?
You got scared?
(man laughing)
- I got all this fencing done.
So this was all high game fencing,
regulation for,
I can put elk in here if I want to.
- [Brian] Wow. - [Blake] Buffalo.
- You guys know I love emus.
This is actually a white emu right here.
We're going to try to get as close as we can.
If you can listen to the sound.
Sounds like drums.
And that drum is actually a sound that the emus make.
- [Man] Another one's following me over here.
- This is what they call a blonde emu right here.
Look at how amazing.
Absolutely incredible birds.
Always have loved these guys forever.
Hi.
What are you doing?
- She could run harsh.
But she knows me, because she knows I play hard with her.
Look, he's peeing on me.
This thing's disgusting.
Just look, he pees in his face.
- [Brian] Oh my gosh.
- [Noah] He licks it, bro. (laughing)
- Yeah, that's how goats are.
- [Brian] What are you doing?
You coming with us?
- [Brian] Faroese geese.
Really cool animals, man.
- [Blake] They actually can be very, very,
very aggressive during breeding season.
My buddy that produces 'em,
his best friend got hit in the arm by one,
and broke his wrist.
- [Brian] What?
- But it's not breeding season luckily, so.
- [Brian] Thank gosh.
Noah, go over there and pet him.
- And this time's the best time to come,
because the nocturnal animals come out, like Petri.
- [Brian] Oh look at--
- [Blake] It doesn't like anybody.
Obviously it's Kinkajous.
But with me. - [Man] What's up Kinkajou?
- [Blake] Perfect with me.
- [Brian] Yeah? - [Blake] No problem.
I could go in there, no problem.
- No one got bit by a Kinkajou.
- Yeah, yesterday.
- I got bit one time by him.
- [Brian] That was it, that was enough.
- Yeah, that was enough.
- So we're obviously in the fish part of Blake's Place,
and this is a barn that he built specifically for fish.
Lots of future plans for giant tanks and all kinds of stuff.
Right now he's got this really cool predator tank
right here.
He's got a giant Arapaima right here,
he's got Arowana over here.
Is that an albino redtail cat?
- [Blake] Platinum albino, yes.
- [Brian] Platinum Redtail cat.
- [Blake] Azul Peacock Bass,
different types of catfish, about nine.
- [Brian] Gosh
- That's it, but everybody in here are
just at around two and a half years old.
Raised up, all in that 300 gallon tank,
every single one of them.
- [Brian] So you raise these all up.
- Yeah, I've never bought a fish big,
I've always liked to raise them up,
and, like, make a little family with them,
so these are like my babies.
This is just a hobby.
- [Brian] How old is the Arapaima?
- The Arapaima is two and a half years old.
- [Brian] Two and a half,
- [Man] That's two and a half years old.
- [Brian] And they get, like, this big as babies.
- [Blake] Yeah, just like that when I got him.
- Ooh!
- [Blake] Look at these guys.
- [Brian] Look at those.
- [Man] Gorgeous boys.
- [Brian] What are they called.
- Those are Albino Arawanas.
- [Brian] Just Albino Arawanas, that's it?
Okay then, no fancy name, that's awesome.
- Those Azul's are ready to go,
you put your hand in there and you will get hit hard.
- [Brian] These are so dope, dude.
- [Blake] These are really cool.
- [Brian] Perfect.
- [Blake] Nice, young, a little radiated.
I like to get them outside as soon as I can,
and I mean they're balls.
- [Brian] I mean look at them.
Yeah, they're like bowling balls.
- When they get a little pair mating,
I kind of get upset,
but like they're good.
- [Brian] A little bit's okay.
- Yeah, of course.
- Those are as smooth as you could get.
- I've had 'em since they were hatchlings.
They're just about a year and a half now,
two years old and, I mean, they're just--
- [Brian] They're perfect.
They're awesome.
- [Blake] There's eight of them in here.
My little babies.
- [Brian] Central American wood turtles.
Wow!
- [Blake] Yeah, their colors.
I mean, they call 'em painted turtles.
I think they're one of the best pet turtles.
- [Brian] They're awesome.
They're crazy cool.
- [Blake] And then, like I was showing you earlier,
how about the spotted-leg wood turtle,
nobody likes them.
- [Brian] I know, yeah.
- These are from last year, like two years ago.
- [Brian] Yeah
- And this is from this year.
I think they're awesome.
I mean, they're dark colored turtles,
but dope.
- [Brian] They're super cool.
I don't know why anyone wouldn't like those.
- So, if nobody buys these,
these guys are just going to go into the aviary.
(Brian laughs)
- [Brian] I mean, it looks like a diamond back.
- Yeah, diamond-back serpent.
- It's just a diamond-back here.
Okay, it's really beautiful.
I was like, it was so nice.
I was like, "is it something different?"
It's amazing.
Yeah, they're my favorites too, by the way.
Yeah, these things are so beautiful.
I almost thought they might be some else.
I'm not super huge on Terrapin so I'm like,
"Is there a species I don't know about."
- [Noah] Oh!
Oh!
- [Brian] Oh my gosh.
- [Noah] It's in heaven time.
- [Brian] Ah!
Oh!
- [Brian] What's going on, dudes?
- [Noah] What's going on?
Oh my God.
(Noah laughing)
- [Brian] Noah's in heaven.
Noah's in heaven.
- [Noah] (laughing) Little puppies, what's going on?
- [Brian] This is crazy.
- [Noah] They're endless.
Hey puppies. - [Brian] Oh my gosh.
- [Noah] Oh! (laughing)
Ah, they're so cute.
- [Blake] Yeah, so these are all my little, exotic bullies.
They're fun little guys. - [Brian] Oh my gosh.
- [Noah] What's up, buddies?
- [Brian] You guys are amazing.
Blake, this has been absolutely amazing.
I mean, experiences that I never expected
I was going to have when I came down here.
One of the coolest places I've ever been to for sure.
So thank you so much. - No problem,
thank you for coming by. - I appreciate it.
Definitely, like I said, link in the description.
go show him some love please,
because this place is amazing,
and the future looks even better for him.
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right over here is a playlist, hit a couple of those videos,
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Have an absolutely wonderful day, everybody.
I'm just going to play with puppies.
I promise, I'll see you tomorrow.
- See you guys later.