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- Hey, good morning everybody and welcome to the vlog.
I hope the start of your day is absolutely incredible.
We're actually gonna start the day
with collecting colubrid eggs
or at least checking for colubrid eggs.
We only have, like, 10 or 12 more females to go.
So there's not a whole lot more of colubrid production
when it comes to actual egg laying.
But, of course, the hatch season is upon us
so we're gonna go ahead and check to see
if there's anything else hatched here a little.
I'm gonna check this girl.
Oh, she hasn't even got an egg box, so,
again, I'm not expecting much in the way of colubrids today
but maybe.
Ow, ow, Jesus, gosh.
Oh my gosh, what the heck is goin' on.
Momma, what are you doin' to me?
It's very unusual for a gravid female to be unbelievably.
Ow, jeez!
Did you guys see that?
I literally just opened the thing and she just crushed me.
What in the world is going on here?
Oh, god.
Okay, she let go, but now she's got me so tight
that I know if move, don't move.
Oh my god, that was a very surprising way
to start the day.
Momma, you better not bite me, you better not bite me,
don't do it, don't do it, don't do it.
Oh my gosh.
I cannot get her off my hand.
This is the downside of daily vlogging sometimes
is that when you only have one hand,
you now have a snake that is completely constricting you
and if I can't get her off,
she's definitely gonna bite me again.
Ah, come on, girl.
Don't do it, don't do it.
Okay, I'm in trouble here.
I'm gonna set this camera down for one second.
Okay, got momma off there.
Okay, girl, it's all right.
I have a feeling that's she's actually not gravid
because, again, gravid snakes don't act like that
to be totally honest with you.
She's acting like a hungry snake.
This will be a second clutch for her
so sometimes that happens when you breed a snake,
you think she's gravid because she's a second time 'round
and sometimes they just don't go for a second time
so I have a feeling that this girl
has definitely not got eggs in her.
I think she needs a meal later on today
and I think I'm just gonna go ahead
and chauffer until we get done with the breeding season,
get 'em all into brumation, but, oh doggy momma,
you are upset aren't you?
Get in there, get in there, come on, don't.
Get, get, get.
Okay, get this shed out of here real quick while I'm there.
Look at her, she's crazy.
Oh my gosh.
All right, well I'm gonna keep checkin' snakes
and see if there's any other eggs.
I tell ya what.
It's been a while since I've
had a good snake bite like that.
That was actually pretty cool.
Of course this Mexican black king is due any day as well.
Doesn't look like we've got any eggs in there yet,
but again, she's gettin' goin' too.
And usually Mexican black kings are pretty good.
This is another girl that is a Mexican black king
but I wonder if she's gravid or not,
to be honest with you, I'm not 100, ow!
God, are you kidding me right now?
Oh my gosh, and this one's got me right in the cuticle
of the hand.
What kind of a morning is this?
Oh my gosh, oh ow.
This one hurts, guys, I'm not gonna lie.
She's got me in a real tender spot right now.
Did I handle mice before I came in this morning,
what is going on?
And again I think it's the same thing as the brooks king
where she's probably not gravid.
Oh my gosh, guys, I am gettin' tore up today.
I tell ya what, you know, snake bites aren't that bad.
They're not as bad as people think they are, typically,
but every now and then, a snake that has a food bite
like this one here, it's just, you know,
it's a good bite and she's clamped on pretty hard
and if it's in a tender spot, it does hurt a little bit.
And I don't have anyone with me that's gonna help me
because Jay over here is just worried
about getting the shot.
All he cares about is the shot.
In the meantime, I'm over here in pain.
Thanks, Jay, I appreciate it.
- Hey no problem, man, you know, I just got,
this is what I get paid for.
- Exactly.
Oh, come on girl, ow, oh my gosh.
Holy cow, okay, all right, all right.
I'm not gonna lie.
I'm not a baby.
I've got a pretty high pain threshold.
This hurts a little bit
so I'll tell ya what I'm gonna do really quick
is I'm gonna actually hand this camera to Jay
and I'm gonna use both hands.
Okay girl, come on baby, okay.
Ow, ow, ow, ow, ow, ow.
Ow, jeez!
I'm not, ow!
Oh my gosh, do you see that?
I feel like a total wimp right now.
Let go, let go, let go, let go.
Ow, you can feel the skin ripping.
- [Jay] I could hear it ripping.
- Okay, okay, okay girl.
It's all right baby, you're okay.
Okay, I'm just gonna set her down
so she doesn't bite me again.
Whoa, Jesus!
I think this went really well.
I think that checking the eggs today has been a,
it's been a, it's been a success.
Okay, I think I might need a little a break.
I hope that you have a great day
and let's set all our problems aside
and have a great day together.
Just one clutch of ball pythons today.
- Yep, just one.
- [Brian] Okay, all right, what do we got?
- We have an albino het clown female bred to a clown male.
- Okay, all right, cool.
So we'll have clowns that are het for albino,
which is pretty cool.
And the reason we didn't breed this girl
to our albino clown was last year we did that
and we had some deformities.
Sometimes when you bred albino to albino,
with ball pythons and some other snakes too,
but in particular with ball pythons,
sometimes you get mutations and stuff like no eyes
and one eyes.
Like, as a matter of fact, Helen, this is her mom right here
so we decided not to go albino to albino this year.
Let's go ahead and see what she's got.
But absolutely incredible female.
Here we go, come on girl.
Oh, and again, half of these are gonna be clown
that are het albino and the other ones
are just gonna be double het albino clowns.
So, not a bad clutch at all.
It looks like there's quite a few eggs in there too.
What do we got?
- We got one, two, three, four, five, six, seven.
- Seven eggs, that is absolutely good.
Seven completely fertile eggs.
Absolutely incredible.
Again, with any luck, half of 'em will be clowns
that are het for albino,
the other'll be double het for albino clowns.
So, Kelsey just has to get these eggs apart
just a little bit 'cause
they're stacked a little bit too high
but that's it for ball python clutches for the day.
But, I tell ya what, I can definitely get used to this
almost every day, pulling ball python clutches.
So, good job Kelsey. - Thank you.
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- Remember this absolutely gorgeous set up
that we had with the geckos?
We're super happy with it but one of the problems
that we had is it was so, kinda, built out
that Jessica actually put a little nest box in there
and today she was going through and doing it
and what happened?
- Well, I took everything out.
I actually replanted it a little bit ago.
But I took all the plants and everything out
and they laid under the laybox, so.
- Under the laybox, so.
- Silly little dudes.
- So we did get a couple crested gecko eggs,
so it looks like we got. - Yeah, these are our
first crested eggs.
These one maybe sat in the dirt too long
and they maybe got too wet but these two look perfect.
- [Brian] Yeah, those look good.
- So, we should at least have a couple babies
in a couple weeks.
- So, so yeah, that's good news
but that was the one downside to having
an overly planted cage is that sometimes the animals
are gonna lay their eggs underneath things
and in this case we may not have caught a couple
of 'em in time.
But, regardless, we kinda redid things a little bit.
Little bit more sparse, plus the other thing is
is that now you can see the animals much better.
You can see they're right out in the open
and stuff like that and hopefully now
we can actually start breedin' some crested geckos here.
Plus, people can see 'em a little better.
But, the good news is we did.
Wanted to take a quick break, because, you know,
I always like to kinda keep you guys updated,
keep the kind of personal vlog thing happening like always
and I hope that you guys are enjoying the new style
that we've been loving bring you.
Me and Jay have been having a great time.
So lemme know in the comments if you're, like,
really into that style and we continue to improve it.
And, listen, the reason I wanted to give you
a little bit of an update, not to mention I love
to show off this beautiful rhino rat snake,
absolutely still lovin' these guys.
They're, they're such interesting snakes.
But, regardless, you know,
we're just getting started, people.
I mean, the first start or first wave
was to kind of really change and feel the style
of the new vlog where we're gonna get a chance
to show you a lot of beautiful shots.
You know, a lot of people had mentioned before
that when you're really just runnin' and gunnin'
with one camera, you know, it's hard to really punch in
on an animal and see the beauty and the detail of it.
So, that's what we're trying to bring
is like telling that story, not to mention I've talked about
telling the story of the day, pulling that veil back
on BHB and the Reptarium, how we run things,
me and Laurie, kind of, the family thing
as well as the crew.
So, I hope we're doin' a good job.
We're gonna continue to improve on that.
But, you know, as we get going,
like I'd mentioned, we're just getting started,
we wanted to bring a new level to Instagram, to Facebook.
We also really want to recharge to Animal Bites channel.
Some of you guys may not know,
I have another channel which was really my first channel,
was called Snakebites originally,
then it got rebranded as Animal Bites,
link in the description if you guys wanna check that out.
But, of course, we're gonna do the Australian adventure,
hopefully hit South Africa, Indonesia,
maybe, who knows what the other adventures we're gonna do.
You know, again, like I talked about.
Little TV show type stuff
that we're gonna release that will be, like,
20 minute kinda of Animal Planet,
NatGeo style television shows hopefully
that you guys'll really love.
Shot high end, multiple camera angles.
You know, just really high production.
We're super excited 'bout that.
With any luck, by the end of September,
we'll head to Australia for probably 14 or 16 days.
Do an amazing adventure with, you know, taipans,
and brown snakes and some crocodile stuff
as well as some cute mammal stuff.
We'll see what happens.
We're tryin' to hopefully hook up with Bob Irwin,
Steve Irwin's dad who's a good friend of mine.
Maybe go out and do some stuff with him.
Regardless, we'll keep you guys updated.
We're gonna do a number of series on that channel
that are really high end.
I'm not sure about that.
We're definitely gonna need a sponsor for that, I think,
because it's gonna be a pretty high end production,
gonna cost a lot of money, so, hey,
if you're a sponsor and you wanna sponsor,
let's say a year of crazy adventures or something,
then let me know.
'Cause we're definitely gonna be looking
for probably financial backing
'cause it's gonna cost a lot of money to do it.
But, think about it, if you wanna watch kinda
the old Animal Planet animal adventure shows,
I would love to bring that back to Animal Bites.
But for now, we've gotta learn to crawl
and walk before we start running, so,
I just wanted to get you updated to tell you,
guys, I hope that you're enjoying this.
I wanna know in the comments if you guys are enjoying it
and just went to the P.O. box,
or I should say Laurie went to the P.O. box,
and we got a handful of things here.
So we figure we'll just do a quick unboxing of what's.
I'm gonna wreck this, aren't I?
- I know you are.
- Should you open it? - Yes.
- Okay.
- Should we do an instructional video of how to open mail.
- I just, I get so excited about things,
I usually just like tear into 'em.
I don't have time for this, let's go.
- I'm just trying to make sure that I'm not.
Okay, there it is.
I'm actually opening it the way it's supposed to, versus.
Oh, yes. - What is that?
- See you would've cut whatever this is.
- Oh, I would've cut whatever it is.
What is it? - What's this?
Damn Good Beef Jerky.
- I do love my beef jerky.
- Death by jerky.
Oh no, not for me.
- We'll have to wait for Eric and Noah to do
the Death by Beef Jerky here, but,
but this is awesome.
I love it.
This stuff looks good, too.
Sweet and spicy.
- This is Stephanie. - I like that.
- She just found your vlog about three weeks ago.
- Aw, thank you Stephanie. - And she is hooked.
- Aw, thank you so much
and thank you for the beef jerky, I mean,
that's, that's awesome, so, let's see.
I think you should get t-shirts made with
that say Laurie Barczyk is my spirit animal.
Okay, what do you guys think? - Probably not.
You could make your own. - Yeah, I think, well.
This is actually from China.
Again, it's kind of a weird package.
I'm not really sure what is in here.
Last time I opened up a package from China,
it was actually somethin' that I ordered from Amazon
and I thought it was maybe someone sent us something
but it turned out it was just from Amazon.
There's no real name. - He can't keep track
of his purchases. - Is there a name on there?
Feng Guan?
Is the name.
So, thank you Feng Guan.
If I didn't pronounce it. - I would love to know
if you said that right. - Yeah, I probably,
I didn't probably pronounce. - 'Cause my money's on not.
- That right.
So this is definitely not camera gear which is interesting.
What is that?
Ooh, that is cool.
Are you kidding me?
- So it's like a little egg with a turtle in it.
- Oh my gosh, take a look at that, guys.
It's a little.
That is super dope. - That is cute.
- Does the turtle come out?
Well, I don't think, oh yeah. - Oh, it.
- Oh it's a little magnet. - Oh, okay.
- Oh my gosh, the magnet actually goes like that.
- Keeps it in place.
- That is awesome.
This one is from Amazon fulfillment,
so I'm not sure what it is.
Yes, I really do need all these reptiles.
So, the book says, "Yes, I really
"do need all these reptiles".
And then it's just pages of loose leaf nothing.
I can just fill these up.
This is fantastic. - This is a perfect gift
for Brian and or Eric.
- Yeah, me and Eric'll share this book
and I'm sure Laurie and Mary will absolutely love the pages.
- Cross 'em all off. - That we have.
So, thank you Megan. - I'll go behind
with the black magic marker.
- Thank you Megan, seriously. - No, you don't.
- And then lastly we've got this here.
This is, let's see, it's from Jody Fitzpatrick.
- I've been watchin' the vlog for over a year
and you were one of their first subscriptions.
- What, thank you so much, guys!
- A box of treats from Canada, most of which you can't
get in the States. - Nice.
- Treats for dogs.
- I know, this mega beef flavor.
- Oh, awesome. - Mega beef flavor.
That's awesome.
- Try and, you can try.
I think that was my idea right from the start.
And this is perfect, because, guess what
since Phoebe always wants to get in on that,
we can just have the bone right on the table
while we're tryin' and she can have that.
- Ooh, there's some great stuff in here.
I mean, there's tons of really cool stuff.
So we'll try these over on Noah,
we'll do a mukbang on Noah's tasting of Canada.
We haven't done Canada yet, right?
'Cause it's so close, but this is awesome.
So, thank you so much.
That concludes the mail time for the day.
No colubrid clutches today but I do see a little baby snake
over here that is crawling around
which tells me that there's some more baby colubrids hatched
which is always exciting.
So, let's go ahead, set these guys down
and see what we have here.
This is actually a, oh, look at that.
A little baby Pueblan.
The first Pueblan milk snake of the year.
Oh, he's a feisty little monkey, too.
What is, oh, what is wrong with you buddy?
It's okay.
He hatched into the world with a big attitude.
Oh my gosh, and it must've been this egg right here.
Looks like we've got three other eggs
that haven't even pipped yet and some people have asked me,
like, why don't I cut colubrid clutches
and the truth is is that the eggs are just so small
that cutting 'em doesn't really do a while lot.
You know, it can aid in having them hatch,
but to be honest with you,
the majority of the time when I'm cutting python clutches,
it's, it does help them hatch but,
to be honest, it's more just about being excited
about what potentially is hatching.
Whereas we know that these are all gonna be Pueblans.
They may be apricot Pueblans, they may be normals,
they might be interesting patterns.
But when we cut an egg this size,
you're really not gonna see a whole lot anyways.
So, the fact is, we don't really typically cut colubrid eggs
but nevertheless a beautiful little Pueblan milk snake.
And it's a really pretty one too.
And again, very feisty.
But we'll go back and check on these guys probably tomorrow
and see if the rest of those animals hatched out.
As for this clutch, this clutch pipped out the other day.
Remember then that the greatest.
And look at that, ooh, doggy.
Of course that's our first Mexican black king snake
of the year.
And you can see this one has a little bit of pattern on it.
With Mexican black kings that are solid, jet black,
glossy black, they actually sometimes can hatch
with some pattern like this.
And within a couple sheds,
they'll actually be completely patternless
and really glossy black like the other ones.
The other eggs have all pipped out
but none of 'em are out yet
and you can see all the bubbles and albumen
kind of leaking out.
So that's pretty exciting too.
But regardless, we've got a couple little babies
right there and then lastly,
this is the last clutch I saw the little babies.
Oh, look at this.
Wow, oh my gosh.
There is a bunch of little cool little corn snakes in here.
And these are all motleys except for
this one little snow corn over here.
The rest are motley.
These are actually anerythristic motleys
or black motley corn snakes right here.
And then these guys are all just motley corn snakes.
Oh my gosh.
And the motley is actually that pattern.
See how the pattern is kinda striped and blotchy
and this one's got little hurricane patterns on it
and stuff like that.
And ironically enough, the original motleys
were called motley mutant corn snakes.
It's funny how that things progress over time, right?
It was a guy named Ernie Wagner probably 25, 26 years ago,
actually produced the first recessive
motley mutant corn snakes.
And now it's just been shortened to motley.
The same thing happened with cinny ball pythons.
They used to be called cinnamon pastels.
As well as pastel jungle ball pythons
are now just called pastel ball pythons.
So these originally were motley mutant corn snakes.
Now just known as motleys and then of course
the anerythristic is another recessive mutation.
Not exactly sure where this little snow corn came from,
to be totally honest with ya.
Doesn't really fit in that clutch.
I wonder if there's an early egg.
Oh, there it is right there.
And that was actually a snow het scaleless corn snake.
Oh, I'm lettin' snakes out.
Look at this one.
This one's gettin' away.
Come on buddy, get over here.
That was actually a snow corn that's het first scaleless
bred to a snow scaleless so we should
have some snow scaleless in here as well.
But nevertheless, a bunch of little baby corn snakes.
Absolutely incredible.
They'll all be hatched out pretty soon.
I always set this thing and I check for heads.
You wouldn't wanna pinch any heads in the things.
Oh, and bye the way, I am, the worst at this.
Laurie hates me.
There is a corn snake that got loose right there.
So, as I was picking up the box, Jay actually noticed
that there was a corn snake so oops.
Laurie's gonna kill me if I do that the rest of the year.
There you go, a few clutches of colubrids that are hatching.
Oh my gosh, look at all of these eggs up here.
Oh my gosh, there's gonna be a lot
of incredible babies hatching over the next couple months.
A few people were asking me about an update on Verdi.
So she is doing absolutely incredible
but still only eating live chicks
and then choo choo training rats
and unfortunately, the last couple weeks,
I haven't been able to find live chicks
so I have to order some in for this next week
to give her some food.
I've been trying every trick in the book
so I know that lotsa people are like,
"Have you tried this?
"Have you tried that?"
Trust me, if there's a trick, I have somehow figured out
how to try and Verdi is just being a little bit
of a turd when it comes to tryin' to eat
but nevertheless she's doin' great.
She's definitely growing.
She looks fantastic but I am so wanting a large anaconda,
so, so bad, so if any of you guys know
of any, like, 12 to 15 foot tame green anacondas,
I would love to buy one.
I mean, it's like my dream animal
and I love Verdi.
She's such a sweetheart and I just can't,
I mean, she's gonna be incredible
when she gets big but it's gonna be like five or six years
before she gets big.
And with the way she eats,
it might even take longer than that.
So, if you happen to know anyone,
please let me know.
In the meantime, I'll just continue to love Verdi.
And with that said, I'm gonna go ahead
and shut the vlog down.
I wish you guys an amazing day, I love your beautiful faces.
Be kind to someone and I promise, I will see ya tomorrow.
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