- Hey, good morning everybody and welcome to the vlog.
The cage is open.
The snake is there.
That's right, Ivy is about to get
the largest meal I've ever fed her.
Over the last couple meals
we've been feeding her smaller meals.
Now it's that once a month, every six weeks big meal,
and today is the largest pig that I've ever fed
honestly any animal I've ever had.
It's a 20 pound pig.
Ivy looks ready.
We're gonna see if she does it.
Now, I'm gonna be honest with you,
sometimes she doesn't take the larger meal,
she'll just crawl up to it and eat it.
I'm not sure what's gonna happen.
Let's hope she's gonna eat it.
This should be exciting no matter what.
Oh, and by the way,
we're feeding a bunch of other snakes too,
but let's just go ahead, get in with Ivy,
and hopefully she's ready to eat this mammoth pig.
She sure looks interested.
Come on, big girl.
Let's go.
Come on, come on.
Oh!
She's got it, she's got it, she's got it!
Oh my gosh!
Look at that.
Woo!
Tell you what, she was ready to go.
Look at that girl!
Hoo doggy.
Oh, whoa, she's right on my feet.
She's curling around.
Whoa!
All right, I'm gonna go ahead,
just step out here real quick.
But yeah, I would say ...
Whoops, she let go.
She let go.
I'm gonna jump out.
I don't want her to come after me.
All right.
Hoo, that was some adrenaline right there, guys.
She just came flying out of there.
She grabbed that pig.
She definitely seems interested.
Now, with her typical Ivy self
I know what she's gonna do now.
She's gonna spend the next probably half hour
just looking around, looking around, looking around.
Eventually, hopefully she eats that pig.
Oh my ...
Look at the size of that meal!
That's gonna be absolutely mammoth.
Again, anacondas eat really large meals.
This is what they do.
This is like nature to them,
so it's nothing that's gonna be detrimental to her.
And again, we only feed her a large meal
maybe once a month, every six weeks,
and then small meals after that.
But hoo doggy, my heart rate's up right now guys,
I'm not gonna lie to you.
That was incredible,
so let's just hope that she takes this pig and eats it.
I think she's looking around now thinking,
"What do I do with this thing?"
This is pretty awesome.
(mellow music)
Down in the dungeon, which only means one thing:
Egg time!
It's just big norm--
Oh!
Jeez, she's a normal female that's really angry,
so this should be really exciting
to get her off her eggs for sure.
She was actually bred to this banana fire spinner blast,
so that's a lot of genes.
It's a pastel, it's a spider, it's a pinstripe,
it's a fire, it just looks amazing.
So there's all kinds of potential right here.
We'll just go ahead and see if we can get these eggs
off of angry momma.
And this girl is as fired up as you're gonna get.
Oh my gosh!
So I just have to time the strikes,
see if I can't get her over on the other side.
Definitely doesn't have a full good clutch here,
but she definitely has some good eggs,
so we're just gonna go ahead--
Oh!
Jeez-o-Pete, momma!
She is protective as could be,
which means she's a good mom,
but boy, you got to really be careful
because she is rocking.
It looks like, unfortunately,
we have four little sluggers here.
We're gonna get mad momma back in here.
Obviously we've got to clean her cage up,
and that's the one thing that
usually about three to five days
before an animal is due we don't clean the cage, obviously,
because that rustles them up, right?
And unfortunately, sometimes right after they lay
that means that their cages aren't in very good shape,
so we're gonna go ahead, get her cleaned up,
get her feeling good.
Probably get all that egg smell off her
so she loses that maternal instinct,
and then get her all set up.
I'm sure she's gonna be back on to food pretty quick.
Anyway, we have two, four, five, six good eggs,
one little boob egg down here.
You can see this lower one, but it should be okay.
It looks like it's gonna be able to be hatched.
And then there was actually four,
so she would have had 10 eggs, four slugs.
That's okay, that's the way it goes,
but wow, I tell you what,
that was the maddest mom that we've had this year.
In typical Ivy fashion,
it's been about a half hour
and she's still searching.
The good news is, as long as she's searching
and hasn't given up I know she's probably gonna take it,
but it's always a little stressful.
You want your snake just to eat, right?
I'm just sitting here watching her
for the last half hour.
I do have to get to feeding some snakes though,
so let's just jump in and do some of that.
Looks like Casper is definitely ready for some food,
so this ought to be pretty exciting.
Here he comes.
Whoa!
Whew.
All right, there we go.
Hoo, hoo, hoo.
Tell you what, that was close.
That's all right.
Casper's always a handful,
but he's an awesome snake.
We'll go ahead and see if Sunrise
is willing to take this guy right now,
or if she's just gonna crawl up to it.
She's 50/50.
Sometimes she snaps at it,
sometimes she just crawls up to it.
We'll just see what happens.
Come on, girl, you want to take?
So we'll just go ahead and lay this down right here,
and I guarantee you she'll come back and eat it.
Daisy is definitely ready to go.
She is fried up.
Whoop, as soon as she knows--
Whoa!
Daisy doesn't normally do this,
but man, she was ready.
I could just tell by her actions, you know?
As soon as I was walking around,
she's smelling that.
And that's one of the tricks that I do think
is a good thing to do if you ever have
multiple snakes in a room,
or even if you have one or two pet snakes,
sometimes you can put the frozen thawed rodents out
and scent the area, right?
So they start smelling it maybe a half hour before you feed,
and that really fires them up into food mode, right?
Just a little bit of a tip
if you happen to be feeding your snakes
and they're not really aggressive about feeding,
sometimes scenting the air beforehand
will actually help that.
Next up is my girl Perdita.
Hoo, come on sweetie.
Oh, she grabbed the leg.
And again, you might notice that we're typically feeding
a little bit smaller meals now.
Remember, when we were closed we could feed
big meals because it didn't matter
'cause they weren't getting handled.
But now we actually have to feed
a little bit smaller meals,
'cause here in a few days
we're gonna be opened to the public
and she's gonna be handled again.
If she has a big meal in her
that could be bad for her digestion,
so all the animals will start getting
a little bit smaller meals.
They grew so much over the last three months.
So now their growth is still gonna be good,
but it's just not gonna be as big
because we're not feeding quite as big a meal.
(mellow music)
And guys, she actually took it!
It's taken her about an hour to get to this point.
I think it'll be interesting to see
how long it actually takes her to crush a 20 pound pig.
I am so excited about this clutch right here.
It's a beautiful female to begin with,
and yeah, it looks like the clutch is really good
other than that one little slugger, so that is amazing.
And look at that egg right there.
You see how you can actually see
stuff moving around on the inside?
That means literally she probably laid this
within the last 10 or 15 minutes,
'cause it hasn't had a chance to get white
and hardened up like this, right?
So we're just gonna pull all these eggs right here.
Some of them aren't attached,
so we'll probably candle them just to make sure.
But I tell you what, I was a little concerned
when I saw that infertile egg,
but has it worked out, holy cow.
We've got two, four, six good eggs,
just one little slug.
And like I said, just think of the combinations there.
There's like seven genes going on there.
They should all interact with each other, amazing.
I mean really interesting to see
how that extreme gene and bamboo mix together.
I mean, this clutch is gonna be
a highly anticipated clutch to cut for sure,
and we have 57 days guys,
so that is pretty exciting.
It's always so amazing to be open
and have people come and visit.
And one of my tours, as well as the fact
that they stayed for open hours, came from Iowa
and they brought be this sign that I absolutely love.
Of course, it says, "Warning.
"This property is protected by a highly trained
"Asian water monitor.
"Not responsible for injury or possible death."
I love that.
Oh, and by the way, they brought me this shirt too,
so you guys spoil me so much, I appreciate you so much.
But I love this sign,
it's the perfect addition to Elvis's enclosure.
(mellow music)
So Ivy literally drug the pig into the water,
but I was just too concerned about the fact that
could she hold her breath long enough
to eat something like that?
I know she's eaten stuff underwater before,
but I was just too panicky,
so I've actually pulled her out of the water.
Not something I wanted to do,
'cause I could have disturbed her.
So right now she's still around the pig,
so I think she's still gonna go back to it.
I just had to do it, because I couldn't take the risk
of her starting to eat underwater
and then run out of breath or something like that.
I hope I made the right decision.
Hopefully she'll go back to it and still eat it.
I just had to do what was the safest for my animal.
Next up is my guy Al.
Come on, Al.
You ready?
Come on, bud.
He absolutely loves pig,
so I think he's gonna be ready in a second here.
Come on, bud.
There he goes.
Good job, Al.
Definitely looks like Sunfire is smell--
Whoa!
Look at this.
Oh yeah.
She is a good snake, I tell you what.
Again, I keep saying how the fact that
when she gets to 15, 16 foot, that is gonna be one
just glow in the dark snake right there.
Just absolutely gorgeous.
First time I'm offering food to Pickles
in its new environment,
so hopefully she is ready to go.
She certainly looks fired up right now.
There's no doubt about that,
so let's see what she does.
Come on, girl.
You want to eat?
There she goes.
That's a great sign.
I always love when snakes eat
after I move them into something new,
'cause it means they're settling in,
they're not stressed out, and stuff like that.
She is such a beautiful snake.
Super happy to see her eat.
Like I mentioned,
the snakes are definitely all really ready.
I think they're getting back on that schedule
where they know when their feeding day is,
as compared to when we were closed
we were just kind of feeding all the time.
So let's see if Snazzy wants to eat.
Come on, good bud.
Aw, look at how cute that was.
Oh, Snazzy, you're so adorable.
(mellow music)
So like the fourth time I pulled her out of the water
she let go of the pig.
Now, I don't know if I just kept upsetting her.
Maybe she really wants to go in the water.
I'm not sure what to do.
Again, I'm worried about her being
in the water for that long,
but after all, nature knows what you're gonna do,
so if she goes back in the water again
I'm just gonna go ahead and let her finish.
Moo-Moo is looking good,
and she, again, is very, very hungry,
so got to be careful.
Come on, girl.
There, oh!
Everything's kind of missing today.
I think they're just so hyped up
that they're just missing the heads
and getting close to my hand.
It's been a dangerous afternoon.
And the last zoo animal that we're feeding today
of course is my guy Jeffry here,
who is definitely always fired up to eat.
There you go, bud.
There he goes.
What a beautiful snake.
I mean, again, that's amazing.
I can't wait.
He's such a placid animal.
He eats aggressively,
but he's so, so tame.
He's gonna be a great snake when he's 10, 12, 15 foot.
(mellow music)
And there she goes, guys.
She's back in the water.
This time at least she's almost done,
so I'm just gonna let her finish out in the water.
I mean, what else can I do?
Obviously, for whatever reason
she wants to be in the water.
That has to be telling me something, right?
Because, let's face, if she wants to keep rolling
in the water she must feel more comfortable.
And the fact that anacondas probably do
actually eat the majority of their meals underwater
must mean she knows what she's doing,
so I'm just gonna go ahead and let her finish.
(mellow music)
And guys, Ivy did it!
She's above water, she ate it, she survived it,
which I tell you what, I had a little bit of anxiety.
You guys know I've been dealing with that,
and hell, if I don't need any more of that.
But nevertheless, this is the largest meal
I've ever feed any animal.
This is a huge pig.
Doesn't even look like she's got a huge lump.
That just shows you how much she's growing.
I mean, sure, she's got a lump,
but it doesn't look really disproportionate at all.
I tell you what, that was absolutely incredible.
Again, with the fact that I've been suffering
with some anxiety lately, maybe not the best thing to do
because I was stressing out.
But the fact is she's amazing.
She just blows me away constantly,
and I can now take a little bit of a breath here
because hoo doggy, I tell you what, that was awesome.
I know you guys have been really excited about this,
and so have I.
Guess what?
I have some new merch.
And I can't think of anything better
than a full shirt of Ivy, right?
That's right, it goes all the way around.
She's giving you a little bit of a hug.
And by the way, if you like the kind of cutesy stuff
and you want something that says, "Free hugs," guess what?
You can actually even order one that says, "Free hugs."
So that's cool.
And again, all the way around.
I think it's amazing.
And by the way, I know that you guys love Ivy,
but one of the other big giant snakes
that everyone wants a hug from too
is my girl Lucy.
That's right, we have one for Lucy too.
I mean, how cool is that?
My girl Lucy on a shirt giving you a little hug.
And, again, if you want the kind of cutesy hug,
I've got that for you too.
And that's right ...
How'd you guys get over here?
Maybe that didn't work.
Regardless, you can get "Free hugs" here.
I'm gonna put a link in the description.
These will be a limited time.
I'm not sure how long they're gonna be available,
but they will only be available for a limited time.
You can go right down here,
click the link in the description,
or go to the store and get yourself some.
I would love to see you guys down there.
Let me know in the comments
if you're as excited as I am about these guys.
So there it is guys, new merch.
Get you some now.
And there you go, guys.
Ivy blows me away again.
That was absolutely exhilarating.
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