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- Good morning everybody and welcome to the vlog.
And that's right, we are gonna cut
a couple clutches of eggs.
I know we were out on a journey out to Utah,
and you guys missed some big cutting,
so let's just jump into it.
We got three clutches today.
The first one is actually a head albino
to an albino ball python, so theoretically,
I should get some albino ball pythons in here.
I will say that there's a chance
that this isn't a head because the father
to this clutch was actually an albino
as well as another animal,
so we think the albino fathered it.
We won't know until we get into it.
The first egg was actually a normal,
but these babies will be 100% albino at least
because they were fathered by an albino.
Let's go ahead and get into the second egg
and hopefully, we can prove this little girl out
as a head albino and get some beautiful little baby albinos.
Let's see what we have here, number two.
Oh, still not a good sign.
We got two normal ball pythons so far,
so again, half are albino but no albinos.
Come on, please, let there be some albinos in here.
I wanna see.
Ah, yes.
It proved out.
Yes, it is a head albino.
We got our first little baby albino right here.
Absolutely adorable.
That is such a relief.
You know, when you raise a female up for three years,
and you're like, I think it was that father
but there was another male in,
you never know, so now at least we know
what the father was, which is an albino.
Absolutely incredible.
Now we just have to get some more albinos
in this clutch and see what happens.
On theory, half should albino
and sure enough, another albino ball python.
Listen, albino ball pythons are amazing.
They've become pretty affordable now,
but the first ones were being sold for 15,000 plus dollars.
Matter of fact, the first one I bought
was a female albino from a guy named Jamie Quick
for 15 grand for a female albino.
Took me three years to get her up to size to breed,
but we did produce albinos from her
and a lot of our founder stock actually
come from that original female albino I did.
This is another normal head albino animal here.
So we're doing pretty good.
Right now, we got two albinos and three heads.
And guess what?
Our odds are working out pretty good
in this clutch for sure,
we actually have another albino.
So we have three albinos, three heads so far.
Let's see what we have going on on here.
Hopefully we can beat the odds on this clutch.
Uh-oh, another head albino.
We got two eggs left.
So theoretically, we're either going to have an extra
albino or a bunch of extra heads,
we're not really sure,
so I'm going to go ahead and hope for an albino here,
yep, looks like we've got another albino here.
All right, so far we are really good,
we've got four albinos and four heads, one last egg.
Are we going to beat the odds with the albino,
or are we going to get a head?
I'm not 100 percent sure, but I'm pretty excited about this,
let's see what we've got, come on, oh!
Looks like a normal head albino, but listen,
that's still really good odds,
the fact that we got four albinos and five head albinos,
I'll take that everyday and we're able to prove out
that female which is absolutely incredible.
That's the first clutch down, two more to go.
And this next clutch was super exciting,
and as you can see, we already have a few ball pythons
that are either pipped out or even 100 percent hatched out,
as a matter of fact, the first one right here,
is a little woma lesser pinstripe,
but not just a normal woma lesser pinstripe,
because the female was actually a super paint ball python.
Now the paint ball pythons are really
a slight co-dominant animal, at least they're called
co-dominant, but the visual, paint,
aren't that very different, just slightly different,
but the supers are really cool, so the fact is
that everything in this clutch is a paint ball python
that obviously is half or whatever for super paint, right.
So there hasn't been a tremendous amount of people
that have worked with the super paints for a while,
so the fact that we have a woma lesser pinstripe paint here
is pretty awesome and then this other animal that is out
right here is actually a woma paint,
and you can definitely see that the paint influence
is pretty interesting, because this definitely
doesn't look like a normal woma ball python,
so that's pretty cool.
Again, I don't know if anyone's ever produced
a woma paint yet, so it's pretty incredible,
we're excited about that for sure.
So, we're going to go ahead
and just dive into the rest of this clutch
because it's going to be absolutely amazing.
I am super excited about the next generation,
so when I raise all of these up and breed them back,
wow, some super paints of all this stuff
is going to be insane.
But we're going to jump into this first egg right here,
let's see what we got, oh yeah,
so this looks like a woma lesser paint ball python,
and again, every animal is going to look a little different
than woma lesser or whatever the actual mutations are
because, of course, that paint influence
is going to change it,
so I'm just excited because I'm not 100 percent sure.
This one is cut up a lot by that egg tooth,
oh and this is kind of interesting.
Okay, this looks like just a pinstripe,
but the paint influence has really changed the looked of it.
I like that a lot.
I tell you, that paint gene is pretty absolutely incredible.
All right, we're going to move on to egg number three,
see what else we have here.
Okay, so this is interesting because this is actually
a paint ball python, so you can see it doesn't look
quite like a normal ball python,
it's got just a little different look to it,
and that's what's going to be influencing
all the rest of these animals, right,
is that slight difference, so I'm glad we produced
a paint so you guys could kind of get an idea
what that looks like.
This cute little monkey's head is out right here,
so I've got to do a really good job of just kind of
somehow cutting around to where I don't hurt the animal,
so I'm going to just make a little slit
and slowly work towards this thing's head.
I can hopefully kind of connect the two together,
I'm going to just slightly tear this right here
so I can get in, now I can cut the egg
and see what's inside of here.
It's head looked really cool,
so I don't know exactly what it is.
This is so cool, and I tell you what guys,
I am so excited about the influence that that paint has.
This is actually a woma pinstripe
that is, of course, a paint because everything is a paint.
This egg right here already hatched out
one of these two little monkeys.
This egg also hatched out, this one is pipped out
but I don't know what's inside it,
so we're going to go ahead and cut this
and see what is in here.
Okay, we have another woma pinstripe paint
and that is really cool.
I love the way these guys are looking.
Let's see here, now we've got another egg.
Just a few more eggs to go.
Okay, another pinstripe paint.
Gosh, these guys are so cool.
So, we did hit the all gene animal right here,
with the woma lesser pinstripe paint ball python,
but we've only hit one of the all genes so far,
so let's see if we get any more.
Okay, this one is interesting.
Okay, this looks like, again,
another woma lesser paint ball python.
I can't wait until these all hatch out
because they're going to look so different
and so cool, so I'm loving it.
Two more eggs to go.
Hopefully we'll hit another all gene,
but I'm not going to get greedy
because I'm already really happy.
Oh, and look at this one, this little monkey's head
is just coming out right here.
Soon as I cut it, it just popped itself out
like, "Welcome to the world, little buddy!"
Okay, back to this egg.
Okay, this another just normal paint ball python here,
doesn't have any of the other genes in it.
And then last egg, guys, in this clutch
and then we've got one more clutch to cut right after this.
This has been a good day so far.
And then this is, again,
just another woma paint ball python, so all in all,
some incredible babies in this clutch.
I tell you what, I'll raise probably the majority
of this clutch up and when these guys breed
and get a bunch of super paint of all these genes,
like lessers and all kinds of stuff,
it's going to be absolutely stunning.
Last clutch is actually just a het ghost
but it's bred to a fire yellow belly,
so I'm only really expecting like fires,
yellow bellies, and fire yellow bellies
that are possible het ghost, but you never know
until you get into it so let's just jump in
and maybe I'll get lucky and prove some crazy stuff,
you know, you never know what's going to happen.
As far as crazy, the first one, not so much.
Looks like just a normal ball python,
but it is a possible het for ghost
but that doesn't really matter that much these days.
Let's jump into egg number two,
and these guys are little boob eggs too.
So this next one here is definitely just
a fire ball python.
Now, the fire ball python, again, is codominant
for black-eyed leucistic.
So there's the blue-eyed leucistic
then the black-eyed leucistic.
That's a het for black-eyed leucistic, essentially.
So let's go ahead and see if we start to get anything else.
I was kind of hoping, I don't know why I had this feeling
like maybe we'd produce something real crazy in this clutch
but right now it's just another normal ball python poss het.
So, so far the first two clutches had some amazing things
and hey, listen, I've always said this guys,
I love hatching snakes no matter what they are,
so it's really cool.
Again, another fire ball python.
So we haven't even hit the double codon yet,
which is a little bit weird, but that's okay.
We've got two more eggs then we wrap up
the egg cutting for the day.
Let's see, another normal ball python.
Wow, these odds are pretty bad on this last clutch.
But hey, one last egg, I want to end the day on a good note
and hopefully we'll get that double codominant here.
And, nope, looks like just a fire ball python.
So it's really weird, it just was a fire yellow belly,
but we didn't hit one yellow belly out of six eggs,
which is really unusual, but it happens
and like I said, sometimes the odds gods are with you,
and for the most part, they were today.
The last clutch kind of got a little bit of the better part
on our side, but that is it for egg cutting for the day.
I wanted to share something with you guys really quick.
This, of course, is my emerald tree boa cage,
which I absolutely love the waterfall
and all the kind of, just total, you know,
kind of way this animal always sits up
on this branch and looks so good.
But the last few days, it's actually been
kind of stuck in shed, and, you know, this might help
some of you guys if you ever have an animal
stuck in shed.
Well, with emerald tree boas, it's a little bit different
because you can't really soak them.
Often times I'll tell people if you have an animal
that's stuck in shed, put it into an inch or two of water
and just soak it but the fact is, with emerald tree boas,
typically if you soak them, even in an inch of water,
they'll often times drown.
Now, weirdly enough, some people have success
soaking green tree pythons, but emerald tree boas,
it's just kind of a no-no.
So what you do is, you can put them in a tub
just like this and actually just put damp paper towels
all around the animal.
So we have these damp paper towels all over the place
and we just kind of put her all in here
and you can see, she'll just soak up all that moisture.
And hopefully within maybe a three or four hour soaking
like this, without her actually being in water,
she'll actually shed out and be fine.
It doesn't happen often because again,
the humidity is really high.
We've got damp substrate, we've got this big waterfall,
so it's kind of unusual that they wouldn't shed like this.
As a matter of fact, this is the first time
she's ever been stuck in shed.
But this is a great technique that works really well
if you're ever concerned about actually leaving your animal
soaking in water, again most animals can do it no problems,
as a matter of fact, some animals can soak
for days in water, but with emerald trees boas,
this is the technique we use and she should be
out of shed here later today.
- [Brian] Eric, what is going on,
- What's happening, man?
- [Brian] Seems like it's been forever, man,
- Dude, I know - [Brian] with your traveling
and everything, so what's good?
- I missed you
- [Brian] Got a little haircut
- Got a little haircut, it gets hot up there, okay,
it's like a mop head.
It's hot in here so I got to be agile
and aerodynamic, you know what I mean.
- For those of you guys that don't know,
Noah is actually in Hawaii right now
visiting my family, because I have family
that lives in Hawaii, so it's--
- Thanks for reminding me-- - [Brian] Is it boring?
- I come in everyday, usually I'm like a little puppy
waiting for my owner to get here
(Brian laughs)
You know what I mean?
But it sucks because it's 12 o'clock
and I'm looking for him
and I'm like, "Aw, he's out of town," but
- [Brian] Yeah, it's awesome - It'll be better
when he gets back in town, I miss him.
- Oh, yeah, well I tell him, I miss the kind of hilarity
that comes with Eric and Noah too, so.
And that's right, you guys did a bunch
of Eric and Noah tours.
- Oh my gosh, you were out of town,
and I think people were going to book tours with you
and they're like, "Ah, we'll do them instead
"since he's out of here," so it was a lot of fun,
it was a blast, we got to meet
a lot of cool people. - [Brian] Well, that's awesome
- [Brian] that's cool. - We love it, we love it
- Well, Noah will be back in his videos,
we'll be back too, I know he need a little mental break,
so you get a little break from getting bit up
and stuff like that, so it's all good.
So that is that, and I'll let you get back to work.
- Awesome.
- It's that time of year where we've got snakes
hatching like crazy, so that's my job.
Once Brian goes through all the eggs and shows you guys,
I got to get them all their new homes,
so that's what I'm working on.
Each baby gets a shoebox of its own,
I have to A, figure out where they're going to go,
because we're getting really tight on space right now
so part of it is creative, but I've got a few spots here
that are available so I'm going to set those up first
and then after that, who knows, I'll figure it out.
So, I'd better get started because I've probably got
15 to 20 clutches today that need to get set up.
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- And with all that said, I am going to end the vlog
and wish you guys an amazing day.
I love your beautiful faces.
Do me a favor and be kind to someone,
just go out and be kind to someone today.
I love you guys, and I will see you tomorrow.
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