- Hey, good morning everybody,
and welcome to the vlog.
You know, the thing that's amazing about, you know,
what we get to do everyday
is you never know what you're gonna get into, right?
Whether it's animals, production,
you know, you never,
everyday is a completely different day.
And I hope the start of your day is amazing.
I just know that every morning I get in here
I know I've gotta buckle up
cause you never know what you're gonna find.
So let's just jump into it and have a great day together.
Guess what time it is?
It's colubrid time.
And by the way, I'm gonna put a little
challenge out there for you guys.
For any creative people, I really need a "Blue's Clues"
type of an intro for colubrid egg.
So if you guys can do that, go ahead,
hit me up and make a "Blue's Clues"
colubrid egg time because it's a great time of the day.
I absolutely love it.
This is actually a het scaleless corn snake right here.
We're gonna just set her down right now.
And she's actually bred to this beautiful animal here
which is motley scaleless corn snake.
Whoo, dog, that is a pretty snake.
So there should be some really cool babies.
Let's see what kind of eggs she has in here.
Oh yeah, that's a beautiful clutch right there.
Really the perfect clutch.
Oh my God, mamma, you did so good.
Way to go girl, look at you.
Wow!
Just gonna get her out of there
and just like I always say,
we clean them up, we give them fresh water,
get them all set up.
And hopefully with corn snakes
they go on to food in about seven to 10 days.
With king snakes they usually go onto food right away.
So we'll get mom a backup here.
There we go mom, way to go.
And let's take a close look at this clutch.
Cause like I said,
this is a beautiful clutch of eggs.
There we go, we'll just kind of pull these out,
look at, all stuck together, pearly whites, beautiful.
Two, four, six, eight,
10, 12, 14, 16 good eggs.
Good way to start the day.
Next one's actually the same thing,
it's actually a het scaleless corn,
but look, it looks like she's not quite ready.
Oh no, it looks like another binding right there.
Let's just go ahead and take her out.
I tell you what, it looks like she's done laying,
and again, this is the second time we've had a female
bind up on some eggs.
But we're gonna see what we can do here
cause I think that it's close to that vent
where I think I can actually
express out this egg really quick.
So first thing I'm gonna do
is just kind of take her out, take a look at her.
See how the egg is just a little bit far away from the vent,
not sure what I'm gonna do here,
give me a second, I'm gonna set her aside,
get these eggs all set up,
and then I can come back
and see if we can't actually get that egg
out of that female cause it's close enough
to the vent where I might be able to go into a probe
and actually massage, aspirate it out,
like I've done in the past, not sure about that.
And basically what you have
when you have an egg binding like that,
it can be a number of things,
the oviduct can twist, it can fold.
Sometimes they just run out of energy
and they just can't push it out.
The problem is if you leave it in there too long
it can actually dry out and kind of adhere to the oviduct
and then it becomes a problem
and you have to have surgery and stuff like that.
So, let's work on that girl in a second.
In the meantime we'll just get these eggs set up right here.
Let's see, it looks like she's got a beautiful
clutch of eggs too.
So we'll just go ahead push these in right here.
Got two, four, six, eight, nine good eggs,
and it looks like she has one egg in her.
So not a bad clutch.
But let's go ahead, take a look at this girl,
see what we can do.
And like I mentioned, you know,
egg binding is relatively common in colubrids.
I'd say probably one out of every
maybe 50 to 100 females that lays
does actually keep an egg in her,
sometimes multiple eggs.
Often times you can get them out,
or they'll push them out on their own.
If you can get them out quicker,
it's always better,
but you see right here where this is the vent here.
There's probably eight or 10 ventral scales
between that and the egg.
So I'm gonna do is just really gently massage,
but then I'm gonna go in with the probe on this side here
into the vent itself
and see if I can't feel for that egg
because I don't want the oviduct
to actually start bending and twisting,
I want it to actually kind of find the egg.
So what I'm gonna do is just kind of search around
a little bit, see if somehow there's a way I can find it.
There's a chance I may not be able to find this egg.
I'm just gonna gently kind of push towards
and see if I can't find it.
And often times you can actually feel,
an egg feels a little different than the skin
and you can get it around it,
so let's see what happens,
and there the egg is right there.
Looks like we're gonna be able
to get this egg out no problem, which is good.
And one of the things that's interesting about this
is the fact that she just laid this clutch
and we were able to get this egg out of her.
Not only did it potentially save her life,
but also there's a chance this egg is okay.
Now there's not a good chance of it
because usually once they bind up,
eggs always go bad.
But there's always a chance cause it's a relatively
fresh clutch of eggs that was laid.
So let's go ahead, get this egg in the incubator,
get mama back in there,
and it's good to hear that she should be okay
and she should rebound no problem now.
So that's pretty awesome.
Moving on, I wanna definitely stress the fact
that if you are breeding snakes,
especially in the very beginning,
and that happens to you, please see a vet
because you know, I've been doing this for so long,
and the first, probably 20, 30 times I had a snake like that
I actually had a vet help me get that egg out.
So I kind of learned from vets how to do it.
You can definitely damage a snake.
This by the way is an Abbott's okeetee
that's het for scaleless,
bread to a beautiful Abbott's okeetee corn,
and I'll show you here in a second, but,
the point is is that, you know,
after 20, 30 times of seeing a vet do it,
and actually assisting, I was able to find it.
I don't want you to stick a probe in there
where you can rip an oviduct or actually kill the snake.
So again, it's through experience,
but again, I wanna share everything with you regardless.
Let's pull this clutch,
and then I'll show you the male that was bred to it.
Looks like we've got one little slugger in here,
but this is two, four, six, eight, 10, 12, 14, good eggs.
I tell you that is amazing,
and this male is beautiful.
Just take a look at him right there.
Oh my God, that thing is just a ripper for sure.
Again, that's an Abbott's Okeetee scaleless corn snake,
and half this clutch right here
should come out Abbott's Okeetee scaleless.
The other half, on average, would be Abbott's Okeetees
that are het for scaless.
That's a beauty.
I mentioned that I wanna try to socialize
these dream basilisk, but I don't how it's gonna go
cause they are definitely pretty skittish now.
But I'm gonna just see if I can't maybe
take one out and just see if I can get, whoa!
They are so light and quick, oh my gosh.
I don't even know how I'm gonna catch one.
Whoa!
Whoa, Jesus.
Okay, okay, here we go.
All right, so far so good.
This is what I wanna do is I wanna just
let him get on me for a little bit,
and then I'll put him right back,
so again, that kind of positive thread of okay,
this wasn't that bad
because right now he's jumping on my arm
thinking maybe it's a branch,
and he's probably like, "Uh oh."
(rapid drum beat)
But now, I need to somehow, whoa!
Okay, okay, okay.
Now I'm gonna try to get him back
without him freaking out too much, there he goes.
And that's it guys, I mean
that's training session number one down.
I'm not sure if it was a success, but it was something.
So we'll just keep on working on it.
And in time they'll actually start to get used to that,
it won't get quite as crazy,
but I'm leaving it there, no more.
Got something from Amazon,
not sure if it's something I ordered or
if it's something someone sent me.
So let's just go ahead and take a look.
Oh, what is it?
Oh my gosh, sphagnum moss.
That is awesome.
Of course we use sphagnum moss for the nest boxes,
and I had mentioned that we're having a hard time finding it
so you guys hooked me up.
I don't know who this is from,
there's no note,
but whoever sent sphagnum moss, thank you so much.
That is absolutely awesome.
(mumbling) Come on.
Hey Lauren, guess what?
(Lauren mumbling)
(rapid drum beat)
- Yeah, you better run.
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- Sadly we don't have any ball python clutches today.
You know, after getting clutches every day for a while
you start to be like,
you think you're gonna have them every single day,
but the truth is you're gonna have lulls in the season,
that's just the way it is.
Like I've been mentioning here in the next few days
it's gonna start to explode down here.
It's gonna be amazing,
but we do still have to check the
spotted and children's pythons.
And guess what?
That's right, we at least have some python eggs today.
Look at that girl.
Of course this is a spotted python, or a maculosa,
and it looks like she's got a beautiful clutch of eggs.
Interestingly enough, this girl slugged out,
didn't even have one good egg,
cause I always have loved this girl.
It's one of my oldest spotted pythons.
I've actually had this girl for probably,
I don't know, 13, 14 years, something like that.
And she used to always produce,
and I'll be honest with you,
last year when she laid a clutch of slugs,
I thought maybe it was just that she was old
and she was done producing,
but she proved me wrong.
Oop, got a little egg here,
we're definitely gonna have to can it
because it kind of broke all over the place,
she proved me wrong for sure,
because this is a gorgeous clutch of eggs.
Take a look at that.
Whoo doggy, I tell you what,
oop look at that, here's one little slugger in here,
way over in the back that we'll just go ahead and peel off,
see if we can't get this off
without breaking any other eggs.
Don't wanna rupture any other eggs by doing so.
So I have to be very, very gentle,
spin it, get it out of there.
So one little slugger,
but you got two, four, six, eight,
10, 12, 14, 15 eggs.
Again, we'll candle those last two.
But 15 eggs, that is awesome.
Especially because I wasn't expecting
a good clutch at all.
And speaking of slugs, this was a disappointment right here.
This was actually a granite spotted python.
It's a recessive mutation that causes this cool granite-ness
but look at this.
Those don't look like good eggs at all.
That's 100% slug nastiness right there.
Looks like she might have a couple more in here.
So I'm gonna leave her alone a little bit,
but that's it guys.
I mean that pretty much culminates
what snake breeder is about.
You have beautiful high clutches that you didn't expect,
and sometimes you have clutches
like this girl that laid a good clutch last year,
lay slugs, it's just the way the breeding season goes.
You have ups and downs,
hopefully there's more ups than downs,
but hey, I'm still loving it.
We're still killing it this year with production.
So I'll let this girl go and we'll move on.
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- What is up, everybody?
We always go over what our animals are eating,
but also when they poop it out.
So hey girl, hi baby.
So she's hanging out here,
but I wanted to show you guys this right here.
So this right here is what is left of pooped out egg.
Even animals at home,
I go through their poop
and make sure they're fully digesting,
I wanna make sure their poops are solid
and not like watery and things like that
cause, like, anything like that bacterial infections
often really show in how they're digesting their food.
Speaking of good digestion,
another great thing is that, you know,
her, she's very thirsty.
So she's sitting here drinking some water for us.
But this is also a good indication of her behavior
because obviously she's not afraid of me being here.
She trusts me so much
that she's actually willing to drink water
while I sit here and ramble on about her.
It's always good to know what's going in
and what's coming out of your animals
so you know what's essentially,
how all the pipes are working,
and make sure everything's kind of squeaky clean down there,
and when something's not, you wanna address it quickly
and do the right thing for you animal,
make sure their happy, and really, really, really thriving.
- This is actually really bizarre.
Of course Nova is up here just chilling out.
Hi baby, what are you doing, Nova?
And his girl up there,
and she is definitely swollen up
for her next clutch of eggs.
This time we're going to absolutely make sure
we have a good nest box in there
and we won't miss this clutch,
I can guarantee you that.
But what's interesting is that when Nova's breeding her
he stays all the time up in the tree,
and then as soon as basically she's gravid,
she's done, he's not breeding her anymore,
he comes down and wants to hang out,
and he stays right up at the front just like this,
just hanging out wanting to get pets.
It's so bizarre.
Again, he always up in the tree when he's breeding,
and then now that it's over,
he'll hang out up front.
This animal is so cool.
And again,
continuing to kind of learn the behavior of animals
is just so interesting to me.
As Jessica's continuing to collect leopard gecko eggs,
we've got some more little baby Chinese geckos.
Now is the more common ones, or?
- [Jessica] Yeah, these are the more common ones.
- [Brian] Okay, gotcha.
- [Jessica] Cute little guys.
- I know it's always cute to see these guys.
I mean, Chinese cave geckos are absolutely adorable.
Won't be long before we're hatching leopard geckos.
- Yeah, only a couple of months.
- It happens pretty quick.
So I'll let Jessica get back to it,
but I had to show off the babies every time they hatch.
- So when I was at the store the other day
I saw they had corn, so I had to get it
because Matilda loves it.
So why they already got their greens,
I'm gonna see if she wants this little treat.
Hey girl, want that?
Ooo, yes, I'm gonna say yes, that she does.
She's like hell yeah, give me all the corn.
- [Brian] It squirts everywhere.
- Such a messy eater.
And you're so strong.
Just like my kids when they were little,
eating corn on the cob.
Just all everywhere.
Dribbling down her chin.
You got it.
Little work out for her too.
- Pretty excited and a little nervous about this clutch,
I'm not going to lie to you.
This is actually an Arizona mountain king snake,
or what they would call pyro
and it's actually het for albino,
it's bred to an albino.
They're amazing,
it could be fertile, it could not be.
Ah, yes, fertile.
It seems like every year we have one year
that there's a lot of fertility,
the next year it seems like we hardly produce anything,
so that is a great sign that our
first clutch was actually fertile.
We did have one little egg over here
that doesn't look good, might be okay.
I might set it up in the egg box nevertheless
just to see what's going on,
but the rest will look amazing.
So we'll go ahead and set these up over here.
Again, I'll probably put this egg in here
just as a possibility, but most likely it's not.
Two, four, five good eggs, one so-so egg.
And again, these are het for albino,
the albinos are ridiculous.
As a matter of fact, let me show you the male real quick.
And here is the male albino right now.
Of course we actually bought the very first
albino Arizona mountain kings that were every produced.
It was a guy in Missouri that actually had a pair
that he had just picked up from a pet shop,
bred them together and produced albinos,
and ever since we've been producing them
as well as hypos and other things.
So they're absolutely incredible
and a great way to start the year with a fertile clutch.
Last colubrid clutch is actually
an anerythristic Texas rat snake.
Now interestingly enough I'm gonna
pull this girl down really quick.
These anerythristics right here popped up
in our collection out of nowhere.
We were the first ones to have anerythristic
which is basically just lacking the red pigment.
Don't know where it came from,
we were just breeding Texas rats together,
they popped out, ultimately that's how we produced
the snows, which are the albino anerythristics as well.
Oo mama, don't get upset, it's okay.
Just gonna get this girl off real quick.
And she was actually bred to a snow male.
I can see some bad eggs in here right off the rip,
and oh, that's a disaster clutch.
Oh my gosh, that's not good.
You know, interestingly enough,
that snow male actually has fathered
a couple good clutches this year,
but this clutch: disaster.
Not even a good egg in it,
which is a bummer because I actually love the
anery Texas rats, and the chances were
that we'd have half snows and have anerys from this clutch.
No idea what happened with that one.
It happened, but oh well, that's the way it goes.
And that's the way we end our
colubrid egg collecting for the day.
I always love being able to help a female
that is egg bound get un-egg bound so that she doesn't die.
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