- Hey, good morning everybody,
and welcome to the vlog.
I hope the start of your day is amazing.
My day? Well, this is how it started.
I looked in the butterscotch enclosure
and Butterscotch shed out, destroyed it,
pooped and everything.
Unfortunately, Bruce usually takes care of Butterscotch.
I'm going to be honest with you,
This is the one enclosure I'm not a fan of cleaning
because look, I mean, this is how high up it is.
Now the reason we like to keep her up here,
is because she just lunges out,
and actually does a really cool show when she feeds.
So it's kind of the perfect cage for her.
She's also a little bit like Lucy,
where you never know how she's gonna act.
She is, look at her right now.
She's just perking up right now,
coming up right here.
If I open this cage,
she would take a jump at me. Hundred percent.
But I have to somehow
get her out of her cage,
get her in soak,
clean this entire cage up,
get fresh water,
do all this other stuff.
Like I said, I wish Bruce was here
'cause he usually tackles this cage for me,
but today let's go ahead,
and see if we can do it,
should be pretty fun
considering I also have a broken toe. Right?
So let's just go ahead,
get everything together,
start our day with a crazy snake,
what better way to start a day?
I think you, me, everyone
push our problems aside
because it's gonna be an amazing day.
(soft music)
All right so the good news is,
is that she looks like she'll
be able to just come right out,
the bad news is,
she probably thinks she's getting fed.
This is literally like a miniature Lucy.
I mean, she's got the same mentality as Lucy,
she looks almost like Lucy.
Yeah, it's gonna be interesting.
So hopefully with any luck,
when I open this cage
she doesn't think that I'm gonna feed her,
which she probably will be thinking that,
and I just have to be very careful,
to see what she's gonna do.
Right now she's like,
all right, are you feeding me?
But I want her to kind of come out,
so I don't have to uh, yup. Whoa.
That's a sketchy snake right there.
Come on girl.
You're okay.
You're okay. Come on.
There she goes, now we'll just, oh my God.
Whoop, whoop, whoop, whoop.
Just gotta make sure she knows I'm not food.
Gosh,
I tell you what this snake gives me the goosebumps
when I'm messing with her,
but she's being real cooperative now.
(groans)
As long as she doesn't come back and bite me
and she does have a tendency
to sometimes out of nowhere strike.
So we have to be a little bit careful for sure.
Thanks Bruce, for taking the day off today,
(laughs)
it's still a very beautiful snake.
You can see she definitely has some shed on her
so we're going to get her in some water.
Don't you go back in there. Don't want you to do that.
It's still a very heavy snake
and she's very persistent in what she does.
She moves a tremendous amount.
You can see she's already on the go.
I don't even know where she's at.
Come on, girl.
(groans)
So again, she's certainly not the size
of Lucy in the sense that
she's probably only about 70-80 pounds,
whereas Lucy is close to 200 pounds,
but she's got that same mentality
of like constant movement, constantly all over the place.
And hopefully she'll like to go into the water for a soak.
I'm not sure if she will or not.
Let's get her in there and see if she'll soak for us
or if we have to fight with her for that.
She seems to be loving it. That's great.
Phew! That makes my life a lot easier.
This girl one day will literally be exactly like Lucy.
She acts the same. She obviously loves the water.
She's got the same mentality.
Again, she's a little bit more interesting looking.
She's not just a Tiger,
but she's got one more gene to her.
But other than that, she's basically like Lucy, right?
So she did great, great job, Butterscotch.
Thank you so much. So get her in soak.
It wasn't that bad.
I thought I was going to have to be running around
and although I've got shed all over me,
Now the hard part is I got climb up in that cage
and my foot is hurting with that broken toe.
Got to get up there, clean that cage all up,
make it look great, beautiful for her.
Let her soak for probably a half hour-45 minutes.
Get all that stuff shed off
and we'll get her back in her cage.
Let's go ahead and just tackle this dirty cage.
(upbeat music)
(vacuum cleaner hums)
Just walking through and notice
that Al is just in a perfect coil position right now.
He's actually opaque and in shed
but nevertheless, even that I just find absolutely amazing.
I mean, it's just super cool
when you see a snake coil like that,
I don't know what it is about it.
It's just, it's just awesome.
And he looks beautiful.
Even deep in shed and when he sheds out here
in another four or five days, ooh doggy,
he's going to be insane.
(razor blade swishes)
Let's go ahead to continue this epic day.
I mean, it's been a pretty awesome day so far, right?
Well today we get to cut a cool clutch of eggs.
It's actually a Pastel female, bred to a Pinstripe,
Redstripe, Yellow-belly. Okay?
So what we're hoping to produce is actually a Lemon Blast,
which is of course the Pastel and the Pinstripe,
but then a Redstripe, Yellow-belly.
I've never seen a Lemon blast, Redstripe,
Yellow-belly before.
Not sure it's ever been produced,
but I think it's going to be spectacular.
So let's hope we can find one.
We've got two, four, six, eight eggs to cut.
Let's get going.
Here we go. Gosh, like I said,
I hope that we're going to hit.
And I'm hoping that things look as cool as I think they're
going to look and right off the rip guys,
I think we hit it.
Wow. Wait a second.
I'm not sure if it's a Yellow-belly,
but it's definitely a Lemon Blast.
Definitely a Redstripe.
And I think it's a Yellow-belly.
I think we may have hit it right off the rip guys.
I mean, it's definitely, it's really cool.
I didn't know how the Redstripe
and the Lemon Blast
were going to actually mix together
and that one thing is incredible.
Unfortunately, can't tell if it's a Yellow-belly yet
until it probably climbs out
or maybe we cut another egg that looks radically different,
we'll know.
But definitely a Lemon Blast, Redstripe,
possibly the all gene animal.
That is amazing. On the first egg.
So we still have seven eggs to go. Let's go.
Wow. What a way to start the clutch,
right off the rip. Right?
And look at whoa, whoa, whoa.
I think we've got a second one.
We definitely have a Lemon Blast, Redstripe,
possible Yellow-belly.
I can't tell if it's a Yellow-belly yet
because you just can't see the size
and how things are, but wow.
Two in a row guys, two out of two.
Wow. And we still have six eggs to go.
This day is awesome!
Let's keep going.
And again, that Redstripe gene is just something
that's really cool.
Especially when you get into Clown and stuff like that.
And right. Okay, cool.
We have a Pinstripe Redstripe
and it looks to be a Yellow-belly.
So right now we are crushing it.
We've got Pinstripe, Yellow-belly,
definitely Redstripe. Looking good.
Three eggs, three amazing outcomes so far
and we still have five eggs to go.
Well, I tell you what,
I wish every clutch is this way so far,
but hey, we've got five eggs to go.
Never know what's going to happen and right off the rip,
we've got a Normal, well, no, it's a Redstripe.
So this is good. This is just a normal Redstripe.
Not anything too much.
Single gene animal, still really cool.
Four eggs to go.
When we started so good, guys, that
it's almost insane to think we could keep
that momentum going.
But look at here. We've got... Okay.
Now for sure. 1000% for sure.
This is a Lemon Blast, Redstripe, Yellow-belly.
Now I'm thinking the other two are probably
just Lemon Blasts.
Redstripes, not Yellow-bellies.
Still possible, but this is 100% the all gene animal.
Lemon Blast, Redstripe, Yellow-belly.
Whoo doggy!
That thing is gorgeous. And again, a powerhouse animal.
We could take this into all kinds of stuff.
It works really well with like black Pastel,
works really well with Clown,
works really well with a lot of different
and oh my gosh,
the future is going to be so good,
keeping some of these back and raising them up
for the future.
And guys, we got three eggs to go.
Here we go. If I produced three Normals,
I would still be happy with this collection.
At this point, it was such a absolutely amazing clutch.
I tell you what, and guess what?
We produced a Pastel. Okay.
Not a normal, but it is a Pastel.
So two eggs to go, like I said,
I don't even care at this point,
but let's go ahead and cut these last two eggs.
Like I said, this is a dream clutch.
I was really excited when this clutch was late.
So I'm super excited now that it's hatching, and again,
now we just have a normal Pinstripe.
So I'm glad that the worst stuff was at the end so far.
And we still have an egg to go.
This last egg could be an all gene animal,
but we hit it everything we already wanted in this clutch.
So it's pretty awesome. Let's cut this last egg.
Let's just go ahead and end it with something crazy. Wow.
I tell you what that is amazing. Wow.
Okay. What do we got here in the last egg?
It looks like a Pinstripe, Redstripe... Possible...
It looks like a Pinstripe, Redstripe, Yellow-belly.
So again, a pretty good animal just minus the Pastel gene.
So while the odds were were great in this clutch.
So amazing, just a continuation of this
absolutely incredible day.
All right, so Butterscotch has been soaking here
for the last half hour-40 minutes.
Something like that.
And as you can see, it looks like she got
all her shed off, which is awesome.
I'm going to have to go in after her
and then let's hope she is going to cooperate with me.
The problem with having a decent sized snake that's wet
is that they're even more slippery
and she, gosh, she is twitchy.
It's a trigger that you can notice with her tics
is when they start twitching, that's a bad sign, right?
The twitch is kind of their agitation
and that means that they're just not in a great mood.
So you just have to be a little bit more gentle with them
and a little bit more cautious.
See what she's doing over here.
Oh gosh. She is going to be a bear to get, come on girl.
It's okay. Okay.
See if we can't just kind of manoeuvre her around,
see how she stopped twitching a little bit.
That is what I want.
It just means that she's a little bit more,
she just twitched on me a little bit again,
but there's a lot of other little tells that you have to
look at too.
Like she seems to be moving straight forward.
She's not cocking back.
Her tongue response is pretty good.
She just keeps, ...This is a pain in the butt.
Come on, girl!
Like I said, she is a miniature Lucy,
but sometimes harder to deal with than Lucy
because at least Lucy is pretty predictable.
This girl is not so predictable,
but she's still absolutely gorgeous.
You got a nice clean cage, girl.
Come on, go up for me.
There you go, sweetheart. Phew!
Tell you what, I was a little worried at first,
when she started twitching at me,
I was thinking there is a good chance she could turn around
and take a pop at me, but she seems to be doing really well.
It looks gorgeous.
I mean, what a gorgeous, beautiful snake.
In the next day or so we'll give her a meal
and we'll have the old toss the rabbit in the air and
have her catch it out of the air trick.
Cause she is pretty spectacular.
And that's why we keep her in this upper cage.
Really not fun to clean,
but now that it's done and she's back in there, I'm happy.
So wow. What an awesome snake.
Remember the other day when we hatched out the Spider
to a Lori Ball python?
We hatched out some really cool animals.
They're all out of the egg now.
And this was the animal that I was extremely interested in.
When we cut it, I literally was like,
is that an Axanthic Spider?
There's no Axanthic gene in the Lori or the Spider.
And I thought it might be because it was so silvery looking.
Well, interestingly enough,
I thought a couple of these spiders might be Lori Balls.
In particular, this one I thought might be a Lori Spider
just 'cause it was kind of darker and interesting pattern.
But the fact is there was no Axanthic.
This is not a Axanthic Spider.
It is actually a Lori Spider.
So how crazy is it that the Lori project influences the
Spider in a way to almost look Axanthic?
But it's definitely not Axanthic
but the pattern is interesting.
Everything about this snake is super dope.
I'll tell you what the Lori project
has been resurrected for sure.
A lot of really cool stuff is coming out of it.
I'm excited.
The Super Lori Leopards, that Banana Lori stuff was crazy.
My buddies produced up Banana Super Lori.
I mean, there's been all kinds of really cool
Lori stuff produced this year.
So I tell you what,
it's a project that I slept on for a long time,
but no longer.
I am all-in to the Lori project right now.
And this animal just really even invigorates me more.
I mean, just think of all the potential we have.
And so many projects with this Lori.
I mean, what's a Lori Clown, Banana Lori Clown,
a Super Lori Py, Super Lori Leopard.
There's so many opportunities. So it's really cool.
Couldn't be more happy with the way these guys hatched out.
It just gives me so much energy for the future.
This next year we're going to produce some
really cool Lori combos.
You watch out, this is going to be a big project.
As I was looking at this clutch one last time,
admiring them, ready to put them back in the incubator.
I noticed something and it's right here.
This is what they would call an umbilical twist, right?
So the umbilical is actually twisted around the snake.
Another reason why it's a good idea to cut eggs.
To be honest with you, this snake may not hatch if
I don't try to save it.
I'm not a big fan of like taking a snake
out of the egg when there's still yolk
so I'm going to try not to do that,
but I'm going to cut more of the top off so we can see
what's going on.
Again, what happens is this umbilical is
just somehow twisted.
Oh, it's twisted around its head.
Look at that right there.
Now that could actually restrict it's breathing and
actually kill the snake.
Now I'm doing the best I can do to just,
it looks like this might be an easy fix.
A lot of times you have to take the snake out,
get it untwisted and stuff like that.
In this case, just watch, I'm going to just do this.
I'm gonna see if I can't just back its head out like this.
And again, this is the actual main artery
that is feeding the snake right now, all that yolk.
So as it tightens up,
it's not going to be able to get yolked and
it's going to starve itself out and it's going to
restrict it and potentially suffocate the animal.
It can happen usually around the midsection,
but I'm seeing, I'm just very gently just trying to get this
twist out like this. Oh! Perfect.
Absolutely perfect. Now the head is freed up.
The actual animal can get the yolk in.
It's not going to kill it.
I mean, literally guys I've seen so many snakes
dead in the egg because of an umbilical twist.
So the fact that we caught that from egg cutting and
actually just saved the snake is absolutely amazing.
It'll be fine. Now it'll hatch out.
So actually super simple fish.
That was probably the easiest fix I've ever had with an
umbilical twist.
So there it is guys. Thank gosh.
We saved this little guy's life. Wow.
I'm glad I saw that because if I wasn't just peeking back in
it, I might've missed it.
And that snake may not have lived.
Pretty eventful day, right?
Butterscotch gave us a handful,
had that really cool clutch of snake eggs.
I mean, I cannot wait till they hatch out
and we got to save a snake with an umbilical twist.
I mean, how awesome is that?
As a matter of fact, if you enjoyed that video,
you can check this video right here.
The Eggbone snake that I saved years ago,
that was one of our most popular visitors ever.
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