- Good morning, everybody, and welcome to the blog.
I hope the start of your day is absolutely amazing.
Remember 57 days ago, we had this female right here,
this beautiful piebald ball python, lay a clutch of eggs.
And I had mentioned that it was the first time
that I had ever had a female piebald lay eggs.
She was bred to a male pastel pie,
so meaning that every single baby in the clutch
should be a pie.
Unless something crazy wacky happens,
that is what's gonna happen.
And it's a little weird that this is the first time
I've ever had a pied to pied clutch, but I am so excited.
And today we get to cut it,
so what do you say we go do it?
(upbeat music) (pops off lid)
(sword slashes with razor)
I am super excited about this clutch here,
because this is actually a piebald female
bred to a pastel piebald male.
So that means every single egg is going to be a pie.
It could be a pastel pie, it could be a pie,
it's gonna have 90% white, it's gonna have 10% white.
Every egg is gonna be a surprise, I love it.
This is the first time
I've ever produced a pied to a pied clutch
in my entire career.
So, I've never cut an entire clutch of pies before,
knowing that every single one of them is gonna be pie.
It's gonna be absolutely incredible.
Let's jump in, Christmas has just started.
And here we go!
It's kinda cool to know that we don't have to worry
about the fact that, is it gonna be a pied or not,
because they're all gonna be pied!
Now it's just a question of,
is this gonna be a pastel pied or something else?
Looking in here, wow,
this is thing is, oh my gosh!
Right off the rip we got a pastel pie.
Looks like it's got a ton of white on it.
And when these guys hatch out it's gonna be so cool to see.
All these eggs, just a bunch of pieds.
Ya know, again, pastel pieds and oh my God the variability.
Maybe we'll get some smilies, who knows?
Let's cut egg number two.
I have a feeling it's gonna be a pied, right?
All right, here we go.
Oh my God.
Like I said, I can't believe this is the first time
that this has ever happened to me,
where I've produced pied to pied.
So that, again, is-
And look at this, right here, right here!
Check it out!
Look it right there, guys!
There's a smiley sticking right up at me right off the bat!
A little smiley emoji, right off the bat.
So we know we have at least one smiley emoji,
that is pretty epic.
And we still have a bunch of eggs to go.
This has been awesome already, I love it.
Let's go!
All right, here we go.
Another pastel pied.
And so far, all the pieds
look like they're pretty high white.
At least, I think that every one of these
looks at least 50 to 70% white.
We might get some that are like, 10 or 15% white, too.
Never know.
Each egg can be completely different,
and you can't breed for high white or low white,
it's completely a random thing.
Each one of them comes out completely different.
So let's see what else we get.
All right, here we go.
Let's see what we got, here.
Just keep on cuttin' along this line.
We have... (dramatic zoom in)
A normal pied!
Again, a nice high white pied.
Gosh! So far this clutch has been bangers, man.
Beautiful!
All right, so we got four beautiful pieds.
Just one pastel pied so far,
which is a little bit interesting.
We still have five eggs to go.
All right, now on average
you should get about half of these
should be pastel pied, and half should be normal pied.
On average.
Again! (dramatic zoom in)
A super high white one, oh my gosh!
I can't even see any pattern on this one right here.
That's like a 90% pied right there.
It looks like the head looks like a pastel pied,
but that literally looks like a completely white pied,
with just a normal head.
Woo, tell ya what, that one is a ripper.
Let's go!
Ya know, I tell ya what, this is a dream for me right now.
Ya know, pieds have always been my favorite ball pythons.
To cut an entire clutch of pies is ridiculous.
Another beautiful, this is definitely a pastel pie.
High white, ya know probably 50, 70% at least, if not more.
And again, a pastel.
Beautiful animal.
Three more eggs.
Again, no real major surprises in this clutch,
other than if we produce a two-headed, or twins,
or something like that.
But this is normal piebald ball python.
Again, super high white.
I mean, again, a little bit of pattern, and that's it.
And you know, I like the 50% pieds, personally,
that's kinda what I'm really into.
But people really seem to like the high whites,
that's what they kind of,
although there are some people
that love low white pieds, too.
But it looks like we've had the majority in this clutch
has been super high white, which is awesome.
All right, two eggs to go,
let's see what the last couple have to offer.
Bum bum bum bum bum bum buuummm!
Looks like a pastel pied right here,
again, ya know, lots and lots of white.
This one looks like it is maybe more 50%,
'cause I see some pretty big blotching of normal patterning,
but it is a pastel.
Last egg.
I mean, look at how many pieds.
Oh my God I cannot wait until these hatch out.
And here we go.
All right, (dramatic zoom in)
what do we have?
We have a normal pied.
Again, super high white, ya know, majority white.
I would say every animal in here is at least 60% white,
some look like they're 90% white.
So that is it, that's the first all piebald clutch
that I've ever cut in my entire life.
I am on cloud 9, that was awesome.
(whoosh)
- Hey what's going on, all you beautiful people out there?
So I figured I'd give you guys a little bit, a moment,
of my busy schedule today,
and get a chance to show you guys some of my feeding
of the monitors.
So without further ado,
I'm going to go ahead and cut everything up,
get everything measured out ready to go.
And let's hopefully I can keep all my fingers, today.
Let's do this.
(upbeat music)
- Down in the dungeon, which means:
Egg time, egg time, egg time, egg time!
(chuckles) Egg time!
I've got a guy named Quinn that's working with us.
Great guy, I love him to death.
He is doing such a good job
of caring for all the animals down here.
You guys will meet him soon.
But nevertheless, he found this clutch of eggs,
and let me just read.
It says, "Eggs! Be careful. They could be robot eggs
"placed by aliens to listen to us.
"Speak softly, they're listening.
"Ok they are just normal eggs, who really knows?"
I mean, you gotta think, it makes you think.
Ya know, you never know.
(chuckles) But regardless,
let's go ahead and see what is actually going on.
And this is, by the way, is a beautiful animal, here.
This is Ashley, a pin stripped specter.
So let's see how many eggs mama has.
She is such a gorgeous snake.
And again, because she's a pin specter,
it means that she's actually had her super stripe, right?
Or basically not had, but is an allelic animal
that is carrying the trait for super stripe.
So anything that has yellow belly in it
can produce super stripe.
So we can get pin super stripes, spinner super stripes,
spider super stripes.
We could also get super specters,
which kinda look like super stripes, too,
but she is really coiled around these eggs really well.
She's bein' a good, good mama, that is for sure.
So we have to just slightly get her off this clutch.
Here we go, thank you mama.
Good job!
I think we've got all the eggs, right there.
And that is a big clutch!
Let me just make sure she's all done...
Yup, she looks good, we'll get her cleaned up,
all that type of stuff, that egg smell off her,
and then ultimately get her back onto food very quickly.
But look at this clutch of eggs, right here!
There is 2, 4, 6, 8, 10, 12 beautiful eggs!
Woo, doggy, a 12 egg clutch.
Gettin' towards the end of the year,
to have a 12 egg clutch, that makes me pretty excited.
(upbeat music)
Whee, doggy!
This was a big clutch of eggs.
This was actually 11 eggs.
It was a pin stripe bred to a banana fire spider.
And I tell ya what, we got a ton of bananas!
We only got two normal pin stripes out of this,
and the rest were bananas.
I mean, that's some crazy odds.
And there's all kinds of stuff,
like this is really cool, here.
This is actually a banana fire pin stripe,
and there's a whole bunch of these guys in here, actually.
Banana fire pin stripe.
As a matter of fact, the majority of the pin stripes
look like they are banana and fire.
Then you have, like, a normal banana here,
but then the banana fire here.
Which just is a little bit more faded,
and stuff like that.
So nevertheless, really cool animals.
Really good odds, and bunch of really cool banana stuff.
I love it to death.
And just a couple little pinstripes, no big deal there.
So all in all this was an amazing 11 egg clutch.
This clutch of ball python that hatched out
was actually just a normal that was bred
to a banana, and she's pin striped.
And we produced some bangers in here, for sure.
Just a bunch of little pin stripes here and there.
This is actually the enchi pin stripe, here.
Which is just amazing.
You can see the difference between the enchi pin stripe,
and the normal pin stripes, here.
Just that reduction of pattern, and stuff like that.
Then we have just a little banana, here.
Unfortunately it's not an enchi, just a normal banana.
But these two here are ridiculous.
These are the banana enchi pin stripes,
and oh my gosh,
look at the reduction of pattern on these guys.
That blushing on it,
I mean just that kind of beautiful color.
I mean that enchi mixes so well with banana.
Then you add pin stripe to it, unbelievable.
I couldn't be more happy with the way these two hatched out.
But really, the entire clutch was absolutely beautiful,
and it is so awesome to be hatching so many
cool baby snakes.
(whoosh)
(relaxing music)
As always, lots of baby colubrid casting for sure.
This is another okeetee clutch,
that was actually a possible het scaleless abbott okeetee,
bred to the abbott okeetee scaleless.
Unfortunately turned out to not be het,
but we did produce a ton of beautiful abbotts okeetees,
that are 100% het for scaleless,
so I am not complaining at all.
I wish we would have had some scaleless stuff in there,
but look at how beautiful these things are.
When these get a little size to 'em,
they are gonna be absolute rippers
when it comes to okeetee corn snakes.
And I'm gonna be in trouble here in a second,
so I'm gonna try to, uh oh, yup.
Nope, I'm in trouble.
All right, I'm gonna, hoo, gosh.
Come on, come on.
Ooh, come on, get your head in.
Head in.
That actually went a lot better than I expected.
I thought I was in big trouble.
So no heads caught up, we're good to go!
So again, we'll mark that female not a het,
so she's definitely not a het.
We may still breed her to abbotts okeetee scaleless
next year, we'll have to see what happens.
But nevertheless, beautiful corn snakes for sure.
Check this clutch out right here.
Hoo doggy, I tell ya what.
These are some pueblans,
but they are some beautiful pueblans,
I mean really wide bands!
I love these.
These are what they would call sock heads,
when they have that big old white sock on their head.
Ooh! This one's gettin' away!
Uh-oh, a lot of them are gonna get away in a second, here.
Oh my God, okay.
Hang on, hang on, hang on.
Oh oh oh oh, whoop whoop whoop whoop.
Uh-oh, we opened a can of worms, here.
Oh, this one's biting me now!
Oh oh oh, all over the place.
All over the place, all over the place.
(exhales)
Okay, try to get 'em back in here.
Get 'em back in, oh my goodness gracious!
That is truly opening up a can of worms!
Holy cow.
But those are beautiful pueblan milk snakes.
That's what I'm lookin' for.
I'm gonna probably hang on to some of these,
because they're polygenic, right?
So you can breed for those wide sock-headed bands.
Get wider and wider and cleaner and cleaner.
So this is the start of project that I used to work on
years ago, now we're starting over from scratch.
So I'm gonna keep some of the best ones of these guys.
Start raising them up,
breeding them back to other beautiful ones,
and here in another 5, 6, 7 years or something like that,
I'll produce the ones I really want to produce.
Nevertheless, super happy to get this project started.
(cheerful music)
Awesome to hatch out those pieds.
I mean, after all, that was kinda the thing
that drew my passion to ball pythons.
That was an absolutely amazing thing,
I cannot wait 'till they all hatch out
and show you guys.
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