- Hey, good morning, everybody,
and welcome to the vlog.
I hope the start of your day is amazing.
Every day is amazing when I start it
with my girl Salty here.
Of course, she's absolutely incredible.
You guys know that we're doing a tremendous amount
of training with Salt and Pepper,
but we have so many projects
that we want to start working on
when it comes to training.
Obviously, we want to ball train Casper,
much like we've been ball training Light Fairy.
That's going so absolutely well.
There's just a ton of stuff.
Bruce is just walking into the cage over here.
Of course, that's Butterscotch.
There's so many things.
Even our Ackie monitors, I mean,
they're little, tiny monitors,
but we think we can train them.
You know, it's amazing how different I feel
about reptiles now than I did
even a couple years ago.
They're so much more intelligent,
and I'll say that even some of the ideas
with enrichment that we're doing here is gonna bleed over
to BHB in our breeding center over the next few months.
We have some ideas how to kinda enrich those animals
so where they're not just in kinda
a really commercial setting, if you know,
but more on that later.
But remember that really amazing clutch
we cut the other day
that had that silver and purple snake?
Well, guess what, they hatched.
And look at this clutch right here.
I'm gonna start with this one right here.
This was actually just a cinnamon.
Now, what basically was bred was,
it was a pastel female, and it was bred
to a pewter lesser.
The pewter lesser is just basically a pastel,
it's a cinnamon, and it's a lesser, right?
This is just a single-gene cinnamon right here.
Weirdly enough, we got a normal ball python,
which is something that you wouldn't normally get
from that type of thing.
Then we ended up getting a little pastel lesser here,
which, again, is kinda like the dad
minus the cinnamon, right?
So if you put this pastel lesser
with this cinnamon right here,
you would get a pewter lesser,
which is what the dad is, of course.
And then we started getting some crazy stuff right here.
This right here is just a pewter lesser,
so it's a pastel, it's a cinny,
and it's a lesser, so it's just like papa, right?
And then some of these animals came out, whew, doggy.
Now, because there's pastel on both the male
and the female side, you can get super pastels,
and this, of course, is a super pastel lesser.
As a matter of fact,
all three of these are super pastel lessers,
but some just have a little polymorphism in it,
just meaning that they look a little different.
I mean, obviously, this one's a little darker,
this one is absolutely a ripper,
and that was actually the one that was in the thumbnail
that's kinda purplish, and this one is, again,
an absolutely beautiful snake.
So, holy cow, I mean,
just take a look at these three animals right there.
Oh my gosh, those are ridiculous.
I mean, that kinda lavender, purplish hue to 'em,
oh my gosh, and that silver, I absolutely love 'em.
Don't get me wrong, I love the whole clutch,
but I tell you what, I have kind of a love
for this style of ball python when it comes to color,
so I couldn't be more happy
with the way these guys hatched out.
I was so excited when we cut 'em,
now, to see 'em in person, it is incredible,
and now, they're gonna shed in a week or so,
and they're gonna look even better.
Got another colubrid clutch hatch out today,
which is pretty cool,
and I am actually super happy about these guys.
I mean, look at how beautiful these are.
This is actually a blaze goini female
bred to just a normal goini male.
Unfortunately, we didn't have a blaze male,
but you can see how they're typically, like, really dark,
and this one's really light,
has a little bit of oranging in him,
some blush in him.
Look at how awesome all of these are right here.
And there's a couple babies
that haven't event hatched yet right now.
They're still bubbling in here,
so there's more to come.
So, when you breed the blaze to blaze,
these will literally hatch out
almost fire engine red and beautiful.
Look at this one right here.
Whew, I tell you, that's a beautiful one right there.
So we'll probably raise one of these up,
breed it back to the blaze female
so we can get even more red babies like that,
but I tell you what, it's so amazing.
Colubrids are hatching.
Now, again, I've said,
blotch kings and Brooks kings hatch
at about 50, 52 days,
where the other ones take about 60 days,
like corns and a lot of the other animals,
so we're still a week or two away
from the explosion of babies,
but it is on the way.
Down in the dungeon, guess what time it is.
♪ Egg time ♪
This is actually a girl right here.
This is a het caramel ball python,
and it's actually bred to a spider caramel,
so I can produce spider caramels,
and caramels, and all kinds of stuff.
Looks like a beautiful clutch of eggs though.
One little egg loose over here.
We'll just st that down right over here,
and then we'll pull the rest of this clutch,
and we'll go ahead and get this in the egg box.
Mama, you did a great job.
We've got two, four, six, eight, nine good eggs.
I tell you what, it's been a banger of a year for pythons.
There's no doubt about it.
We're getting down to that last maybe 30, 35 clutches,
so it's a little bit, like, sad, right?
Because you're like, oh, it's been so fun
collecting all these eggs,
but you gotta remember, all those eggs turn into babies,
and that's even more exciting,
so lots of egg cutting coming up.
It's gonna be so cool to see what we produce this year.
It's been a dream come true.
Definitely one of the coolest years
and most productive years we've had in so long.
It's been so exciting.
I hope that you guys have enjoyed this journey,
but trust me, it's far from over.
Well, the merch is still going on here,
and so far, this shirt right here
with free hugs is the most popular.
Closely behind is actually the Lucy shirt with free hugs,
and then, of course, a ton of people have bought the ones
without free hugs too,
so thank you guys, so much, for your support.
The link is in the description.
Limited time these guys will be available,
as well as, we actually have a crocodile mask now available.
I'll have that in stock and show you any time.
It's pretty cool too,
and a dollar for every sale actually goes
to help fight hunger in children,
so again, link in the description
if you guys are interested.
Got some more little baby Children's pythons hatched out.
They're absolutely adorable.
It's pretty cool.
Like I've said, we had such an amazing year
with the Antaresia, which is the genus
of Children's, spotted, Stimson's pythons,
and they are just such cool little animals,
and again, this is probably the most classic
of the Children's python.
'Cause we had a couple clutches hatch out
that have been really variable,
you know, light to dark, almost like they looked
a little Stimson's python, a little spotted python,
a little Children's python.
Now all of these look really similar.
This is, again, a really classic Children's python clutch
where it's kinda that little bit
of, like, that red sand look to 'em,
you know what I mean?
Which, you can imagine that they blend in so well
in that part of Australia, right?
So absolutely adorable.
We'll get these guys set up.
Hopefully, they'll get feeding.
Sometimes, that first meal can be a little tricky,
I'm not gonna lie, but once they start feeding
on pinkies really well, they just crush it,
and they grow super quick,
and they're little beautiful pythons.
I mean, it's just cool to see a pint-sized python like this,
a pygmy python from Australia, just absolutely adorable.
I think we only have, like,
four or five more clutches to hatch,
and we are done for the year,
which is kind of a bummer,
but we did have an absolutely amazing season with 'em.
Guess what time it is.
♪ Colubrid egg time ♪
There's not gonna be that many more times
I get to sing that little jingle,
to be totally honest with you.
This is actually an Okeetee corn snake
that is het for scaleless that's bred
to a scaleless Abbotts Okeetee,
and looks like she's got a beautiful clutch,
not a big clutch, but again,
this is a second clutch,
but the fertility looks absolutely amazing.
Good job, mama.
That's two beautiful clutches from this girl,
and she is done for the year.
Getting ready, we'll beef her up,
get her all cleaned up, stuff like that,
ready for brumation, and ready for 2021's breeding season,
which'll be here before you know it,
but we still have some eggs to collect in 2020.
Let's just go ahead, pull these aside.
Again, a beautiful clutch of eggs for a second clutch.
Fertility's been really good.
Two, four, six eggs.
Again, don't get as many eggs in the second clutch,
as I think she laid about 12 the first clutch,
but nevertheless, six beautiful eggs.
Again, I am gonna miss it.
Probably only 15 more clutches, so maybe, I don't know,
seven or eight more colubrid time jingles for you guys,
but we'll continue to use that
throughout the ball python season too.
Been showing you guys a bunch
of those Antaresias or, you know Stimson,
spotted, Children's pythons that are hatching.
Well, guess what,
we have the last Stimson's python clutch
of the year right here.
Of course, the Stimsons are so absolutely incredible.
It's kind of a mix between the Children's
and the spotteds, right?
Because it has that kinda really kinda Children's look,
but it has the more spotting and contrast
of the actual spotted python,
so this is the last Stimson's for the year,
so let's see what mama has under here.
Oh my god, a beautiful clutch of eggs.
What a way to end that out.
I think we might have one more spotted python clutch,
and then we are done for the year,
no more eggs from these guys,
but this clutch looks beautiful.
So let's just go ahead, get these in here.
Oh my gosh, this is so exciting.
Two, four, six, eight, 10, 11 beautiful eggs.
Again, just kinda continuing on
with this amazing python breeding season for sure,
so again, one more little Antaresia clutch,
and then we're done for the year,
and these guys had about 50, 52 days.
And it's actually a second clutch
from this beautiful Pueblan milk snake.
I tell you what,
Pueblan milk snakes are absolutely gorgeous,
and look it, she looks great.
For laying two clutches, she looks absolutely wonderful,
which is great, 'cause her work is done for the year.
She is done, she's gonna get beefed up
and ready for brumation, and that's it.
And look at that, a really gorgeous clutch of eggs too.
I mean, for a second clutch,
again, I keep saying it, Lori worked really hard this year,
because fertility, oftentimes,
isn't very good in second clutches, and we've really had,
the majority of our second clutches
have been really, really good.
We've got two, four, six, seven eggs.
I mean, seven eggs, all fertile.
For a second clutch, I tell you what,
this has been an amazing colubrid year.
Then we have a pretty cool clutch here.
This, of course, is an albino female,
but it's actually albino het for clown,
and interestingly enough,
our no out with albino ball python
at the Reptarium, this is her mom,
and what it was was,
we had bred this albino het clown
to an albino clown, and we had some eye issues.
Sometimes, when you breed albino to albino
in ball pythons, as well as boa constrictors,
you can sometimes get missing eyes,
sometimes no eyes, all kinds of different eye issues,
so this year, we didn't make the same mistake.
We decided to breed her to a clown,
but it was actually a het for ghost clown
so we could really just get clowns and het clowns,
but they'll all be double het for albino,
ghost, and so on like that.
So, regardless, she is gorgeous,
and I love when I see albinos on a clutch of eggs.
So we're just gonna slowly remove her really quick,
see what she's got going on.
Beautiful, beautiful clutch of eggs.
Then, again, because it's a recessive mutation,
on average, half of these eggs should be clowns,
again, and they'll be double het
for albino ghost clown, and so on like that.
So, a future project for sure,
but nevertheless, really cool.
Let's go ahead and just get these eggs,
and we'll get these over here
and see how many actual eggs are in this clutch,
a absolutely beautiful one.
Two, four, six, eight beautiful eggs.
Cannot complain, and again,
because we didn't breed her to the albino clown,
we shouldn't have those eyes issues
and so on like that.
As much as I wanted to produce albino clowns from her,
we've actually got double het albino clowns
bred to albino clown,
so we should still get albino clowns this year,
but this clutch, we're not gonna have those eye issues.
It just happens.
Hey, you live and learn.
That's our experience.
We don't want to make the same mistake twice, right?
But that's all the eggs for today
when it comes down to here in the dungeon.
Ms. Rebecca Kushing from Nebraska, from Hastings.
Says do not bend, so I'm not gonna bend it.
- Oh, I'm glad you're not gonna cut it either.
- I'm not gonna cut it or bend it.
And, huh, let's see here.
These are huge tongue depressors.
(Lori laughs)
Brian, the N fell off, we'll glue that on.
The N fell off, that's okay,
we'll glue 'em back on,
Lori, and the K fell off too.
So, that's okay.
Brian and Lori Barczyk.
- Easy fixes. - Thank you so much.
This is awesome.
It's like a cute little thing
that we can hang up.
- Yeah, that's awesome.
- I think this'll go perfect,
actually, in one of the bathrooms, I think.
I think, maybe, in the bathroom at the Reptarium, so.
"I hope that you all enjoy this thing
"that I made for you all.
"I've been watching you on YouTube daily,
"and I love the reptiles.
"I have had a ball python, iguanas,
"and Texas horned lizards, and box turtles.
"I'd love to have another reptile,
"but my husband says that we're good with our two dogs."
Well, I defer to your husband then.
(Lori laughs) "Quick.
"I may talk him into letting me have a veg-eating reptile."
I hope you can.
Thank you so much, Rebecca.
- That was very sweet. - For that beautiful thing.
That is super dope.
And we are officially caught up with unboxing.
This actually comes from Hollis Reel
in Washington, Alabama.
"Please open on the vlog."
- There you go.
- Okay, we're gonna end this segment here.
(Lori laughs)
Just kidding.
"Hi, my name...
"Hi, my name..." (Lori laughs)
"Hi, my name is Hollis Reel.
"I'm 14 years old, and I live in Alabama.
"I comment on your videos a lot and I love them.
"I recently bought a banana butter ball python from you,"
awesome, "named him Harry.
- I like it. - "I turned these pens
"on a lathe.
"The light one is for Lori and the dark one is for you.
"I hope that you enjoy the pen,
"and if you ever need more ink, just let me know.
"I cannot wait 'til you're opened up so I can visit."
Hollis, thank you.
Let's take a look at these. - I do love pens.
- And you actually turned these on a lathe.
That is incredible.
- [Lori] Oh, these are beautiful.
- All right, so this one's mine, and that one's yours.
- I love it.
- [Cameraman] That could be your ball python pen.
- This is my ball python pen
from now on. - Aw, this is so nice.
- I'll mark every clutch the rest of the year
with this pen, so thank you, Hollis, seriously,
and once we're opened up,
please come and visit us.
This is super, super dope.
That is, wow.
- [Lori] They're beautiful.
- That is amazing.
Thank you so much, everyone, for sending us stuff.
You guys are incredible.
You guys make our life so great.
Thank you so much.
Look at my girl Ivy crawling out of the water.
I mean, oh my gosh,
she is just absolutely amazing, isn't she?
And those babies, holy moly, that hatched out,
those silvery purple things,
they are absolute rippers.
If you guys enjoyed this video,
here's a playlist of a bunch of baby snakes
that hatched last year and the year before.
We'll have another playlist for this year, I guarantee.
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