- [Brian] What are you doing?
- I don't know, what are we doing?
- [Brian] Do you know what these are?
- Yes.
- [Brian] They're probes.
Do you know what we're gonna probe?
- Not me.
- No, not you. (laughs)
We are actually...
I need to probe the black-heads,
so I need help. - Oh, cool.
- He holds the black-heads.
I'm gonna show you guys how to sex some snakes,
because basically what happened is,
Snap and Pop, our black-headed pythons,
bred a couple months ago.
But we're coming up on the breeding season,
you wanna start smashing the female with food,
but I'll be honest with you,
I'm not sure which one of them is a male or a female,
so we have to sex 'em out.
I'll show you guys how to do it.
And in the meantime,
Mike gets to hold 'em,
and you know how nice they are, right?
- Yeah.
- Yeah, so let's see what happens.
All right, so the first thing we have to do
is obviously get the snakes out.
You're ready for this, Mike?
- Sure. - All right.
Now, these guys are not...
Hoo, hoo, hoo!
As soon as I opened up the door they're like,
"Yes, gimme food!"
They're not aggressive snakes,
but they're highly interested in food.
And the problem is that if they touch your skin,
oftentimes they think food is a part of that skin.
Now, the interesting thing I'm gonna try to figure out here
is once we figure out what sex they are,
how are we gonna know which one's which?
Are we gonna, like, put a little mark on it, ya think?
Or I don't know what to do.
Or do you think you'll be able to tell...
Ooh hoo.
Come on, don't get me.
All right, you hold.
- Yeah. - Okay, all right, cool.
So, basically what happens is the hemipene pocket
is right down here, right?
So basically this is where their sex organs are.
This is what they call a probe right here.
So basically what I'm gonna do
is I'm gonna put this probe in,
if it goes more than like four or five subcaudal scales,
that means there's a pocket for the actual hemipene.
How are you doing over there, Mike?
- Just probe the snake.
(Brian laughs)
- "Just probe the snake."
If it only goes two or three subcaudal scales,
that means there's no hemipene pockets,
and it means it's a female, right?
So, let's go ahead and see what happens here.
And again, there are gonna be two hemipene pockets
on either side of the snake.
There's the one right here.
And I'm going in, and this one's going pretty deep.
You can see right here, that's going all the way,
so this is definitely a male.
This is actually Snap, the male.
So let's hope that that's a female,
because to be honest with you,
I haven't sexed them since they were babies,
and let's hope they're a pair.
We've seen them hook up,
but sometimes you'll see two males breed too.
So, so far, Mike, you're doing great.
- Thanks. - Okay.
We're gonna figure out
how to make sure that we can identify...
Ooh.
Now, I will tell you this much,
this one was a lot more docile than the other one.
As soon as I opened up the door for the other one,
it went crazy.
- So that means that that's gotta be the female, right?
- It's suppose to be the female, but you never know.
I hope they're not two males.
Let's go.
She's coming for you, Mike.
- Oh, come on.
How do I...
Okay.
- I'm not touching her.
(Mike and Brian laugh)
- Okay, probe the snake.
- This hopefully will only go in a couple subcaudal scales,
and that will tell us that it's a female.
And let's see what we got here.
Yep, so far there.
We'll check both sides just to make sure.
This is definitely the girl, so.
- Sweet.
- This is Pop, and this is the girl.
- No, that's okay.
(Mike laughs nervously)
(Brian laughs)
- And we got away with this without getting bitten,
which is pretty cool.
Again, not aggressive animals,
but highly, highly interested in food.
Whoa!
Whew.
You sure you don't want...
Just touch its face.
Rawr!
(Brian laughs)
So that's good, so we definitely have a pair.
So, now the deal is we'll start smashing Pop with food
so that she can get nice and beefy,
because she's gonna start to ovulate,
or produce follicles, pretty soon.
I tell ya, this...
Seriously guys, as soon as she touches your skin,
she will bite 100% of the time.
Not because she's aggressive,
but because she thinks she can actually eat you and...
Oh my gosh, I got the little heebie-jeebies
when she got close to me that way.
So again, we'll continue with Snap on the same regimen
of like once a week small meal,
and then this girl will get like twice the food,
and hopefully here in the next, you know,
month or two, they'll really start breeding,
produce follicles, ovulate in about two and a half months,
and hopefully have eggs and maybe about four or five months,
something on that line.
So, awesome.
You're gonna be able to tell her apart?
She's a little lighter, right?
- Yeah, I think color-wise she's lighter,
and then her head always seems to be more shiny
for some reason.
- More shiny? - Yeah, yeah, look.
Look, like behind his head is a little bit more dull,
hers is more shiny. - Oh my gosh.
- Keeping 'em squeaky clean. - Okay, great.
- She's going for it! - Ah!
Don't go that way, don't go that way!
No, no no! - It's going to a place--
- No, no!
Now I'm in trouble.
Ow!
Ow, she's got me!
Ow, ow!
What are you doing?
This girl's crazy.
I mean, I'm trying to just get her back in her enclosure
and she's literally...
She's got me now,
and tell you what, that is next...
Ah!
No, don't do it.
Don't do it, don't do it.
She wants me so bad, it's absolutely...
Mike, you gotta take her.
- Here, Mike. - That's okay.
- Here, Mike.
You got her.
Whoa! - Whoa!
- Don't go to my way! - Ah!
(Mike and Brian laughing)
I think she's mad.
- She is crazy.
Uh-oh.
- I ain't got pants on. - Here you go.
- I don't want her. - Okay.
- Can we just put her back?
- Well, that was quite the adventure,
but thankfully only my pant leg got bit during that one.
But again, I always tell you guys
don't be probing snakes if you don't know what you're doing.
Be around someone that has done it a bunch of times
and then you can actually know.
But that's how you sex them when you can't evert them.
When they get to that size,
it's just really impossible to evert the hemipenes,
or not impossible, but you could hurt the snake.
Regardless, we do have some baby ball pythons
that just hatched out that I wanna show you.
And these baby ball pythons are absolute rippers.
It was actually a Black Pastel
that was bred to a Banana Cinny Enchi Pinstripe.
We got a bunch of really cool stuff here.
You can kind of see these ones right here
are actually Banana Enchi Pinstripes.
Here's another Banana Enchi Pinstripe here,
and you can see that just really reduction of pattern.
That's what that Enchi does, and the Banana.
Then we actually have these guys here,
which are actually Cinny Enchi Pinstripes.
So, basically without the Banana gene in 'em,
and we have a couple of these guys.
Absolutely beautiful animals.
The Cinny and Enchi stuff mix together really, really well.
As a matter of fact,
you guys know that I love Banana Cinny stuff,
so we hatched out a little Banana Cinny.
I'm not sure if this is an Enchi.
I don't think it is.
I have a feeling it's just
a beautiful Banana Cinny right here.
And then we hit the all gene animal right here.
And by the way, I said Cinny,
these are all Black Pastels, not Cinny Pastels.
Now, the Black Pastel and the Cinny
is basically the same kind of complex of animal, right?
But they look a little bit different.
This one happens to be
a Black Pastel Banana Enchi Pinstripe.
So, that's the all gene animal there,
and just look at the purples in that animal.
Absolutely wonderful.
Loving this guy here.
Absolutely a treat to hatch out,
and there's another clutch that hatched out today too.
And that's these guys here, which was a Ghost Spinner
that was bred to a Pinstripe het for Ghost.
So, we ended up with a couple of Ghost animals here.
This one in particular is actually a Ghost Pinstripe,
which is...
Ghost is basically a Hypo, right?
It's a recessive mutation that is a Hypo.
So, absolutely beautiful animal.
We did end up with a Spinner
and we ended up with a Pinstripe.
Now, these are both het for Ghost
because the male was a Ghost Spinner,
meaning that everything has to be het.
And then, finally, we hit a Ghost Spinner.
This little monkey right here, absolutely wonderful animal.
Again, that's a Hypo gene, which is recessive.
It's a Spider and it's a Pinstripe incomplete dominant.
So definitely always loving these baby snakes.
I don't have that many more clutches to hatch,
maybe about 25 or 30,
and maybe about another six or eight animals
to actually lay eggs.
So, the season is kind of coming to an end
just as we're gearing up to start breeding again.
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And the fact that we're hatching
a lot of baby ball pythons now
means that I have to go through
and mark all these little monkeys.
We always actually wait till things shed out
before I mark 'em,
and to be totally honest with you,
all of these enclosures here have an animal in 'em
that hasn't been marked.
I would say about 80% of the babies we've produced this year
haven't even been marked yet to get up on the website,
so only about 20% of the babies are on the website.
So, today I've gotta go through
and mark as many of these babies as I can,
tell them what they're in in,
and I'll show you guys a few of the highlights.
What do you say we get started?
(upbeat music)
This happens to be a Jigsaw Calico,
which is a Mojave, it's a Pinstripe, and it's a Calico.
And just like we were sexing
the black-headed pythons earlier,
as babies you can actually evert the hemipene.
So basically what I'm gonna do
is I'm just gonna go like this,
I'm gonna go like that, and this happens to be a female.
If it was a male, there'd be two hemipenes would pop out,
but absolutely gorgeous snake.
(upbeat music)
Holy moly, look at that snake right there.
This is actually a Pastel, it's a Cinnamon,
it's a Lesser, and it's a Bongo ball python.
Oh my gosh.
We'll check to see what sex it is, but wow.
I tell you what, that is an absolute ripper.
It's a little girl, by the way.
I should really raise this thing up,
because it's an absolute beauty.
(upbeat music)
Oh, man, another ripper here.
This is actually a Super Enchi,
Super Orange Dream Spider Ball Python.
Probably a Fire as well, because it's so light,
but wow, that thing is...
Look at that head pattern on that.
Absolutely stunning.
(upbeat music)
This is definitely a cool little snake here.
This is actually a Ghi Lesser.
The Ghi Mojave is also really cool,
but I love the Ghi Lesser stuff.
And this was actually a Banana Ghi Lesser,
it's a little boy you can see right there.
It was actually a Banana Ghi Lesser bred to a Lesser,
so I think there might be some Blue Eyed Leucistics in there
'cause there's Lesser on both sides,
but nevertheless, beautiful little snake.
(upbeat music)
And unfortunately this little monkey's in shed,
but this is actually the Banana Lesser GHI.
Absolutely wicked, but it's in shed.
It kind of looks cool in shed,
but it's gonna look way better when it sheds out.
(upbeat music)
And just like I mentioned, sure enough,
a little baby Blue Eyed Leucistic.
That's again from the Lesser and Lesser being on both sides.
So, this is a Lesser-Lesser Blue Eyed Leucistic.
(upbeat music)
Take a look at this little monkey right here.
This is actually a Banana Super Chocolate.
Woo-hoo!
I tell you what, that's amazing.
That's Banana, it's Super Chocolate,
and it's absolutely amazing.
Wow!
That's a purple, beautiful snake.
(upbeat music)
And this happens to be a Camo Ball Python,
which is a Super Chocolate,
not with the Banana like the last one we showed you,
but also with the Pinstripe,
making it just kind of a patternless, cool snake.
(upbeat music)
This is kind of interesting,
'cause this is a Woma Lesser Pinstriped
bred to a Pastel Crystal.
Of course, the Crystal is Mojave and a Special,
so it's interesting that there is actually
a Lesser Mojave Blue Eyed Leucistic,
but you can see some patterning on it.
I think that that's the Woma Lesser Pin coming through,
which makes it really interesting.
Just a cool little animal.
Again, not pure white, got a little bit of pattern,
which is pretty awesome.
(upbeat music)
Hoo doggy, this is a beautiful snake right here.
We're gonna go ahead and sex it really quick
to see if it's a male or a female,
and it's a boy.
And this is actually an Enchi Albino
that's het for Clown ball python.
Geez, that thing is just absolutely a ripper.
So again, lots more to mark.
We still have this whole aisle to go here.
And eventually all this stuff is gonna get on the website
over at bhbreptiles.com,
so I still have a lot of work to do.
In the colubrid room,
and basically we're getting down to the nuts and bolts
of the last colubrids of the year.
Babies, that is.
These are the last eggs of the year,
and that is it for colubrid babies.
But we have all these just hatched out today,
so these all need to get gone through.
I always like to see them first,
then I hand them off to Lori,
which Lori's not here today,
and then she sets them up, stuff like that.
So, what do you say we just see what we have?
(upbeat music)
Goodness, there's a lot of baby snakes hatched today.
These are actually a bunch of Caramel corn snakes
that are het for Scaleless,
so they were a Caramel bred to a Caramel Scaleless,
and that's just a whole bunch
of Caramel Corn Snakes right here.
Nothing else really genetically going on there.
And again, that Caramel corn,
the Albino is what they would call a Butter corn snake.
The next batch here, let's see what we've got.
Okay, so we have a couple corn snakes,
and then we have beautiful Mexican black king snakes.
Hoo, doggy, look at that monkey right there.
Absolutely wonderful.
And these are some nice ones too.
Every now and then they're born with
a little bit of yellow on 'em.
That one is as good as it gets
when it comes to absolutely beautiful.
So we just kind of move these around real quick,
see what's in this clutch.
And again, every time I open a box, it's exciting.
You guys are opening it right along with me.
Had a couple bad eggs in this clutch, you can see,
and then we have some corn snakes here.
It looks like we've got one Scaleless baby right here,
so again, these are actually
were het Hypo Bloodred corn snakes
bred to a Scaleless het Hypo Bloodred.
So it doesn't look like we've got any
Diffused corn snakes in here, but we definitely have
a really beautiful Scaleless for sure.
And then I'll keep on going,
we have a bunch of babies today.
It's always exciting.
What do we have in here?
Ooh, look at this.
Absolutely wonderful, some Lavender Cal kings.
Again, those purple snakes are absolutely amazing.
And then this is of course a Snow Cal king here.
So, we produce those Lavender Snows,
which are solid purple snakes.
These are the ones that are the normal,
or what they would call T Negative Albino Snows
that are basically all pink snakes
with no banding whatsoever.
Absolutely wonderful snakes.
Let's see what we have here.
Oops, some more nigritas.
You can see how these ones have
a little bit of pattern on 'em.
Like I had mentioned, the last ones were jet black.
These have a little pattern.
Now, what happens is that after one or two sheds,
they actually shed that pattern off typically
and turn jet black.
Every now and then you'll get one
that has just a little bit of pattern on it
as it gets older,
but 90% of 'em actually turn jet black.
But the babies that are all black
are just even that much cooler.
Oh, and look at all these here.
These are all just little Pueblan milk snakes,
some Apricots Pueblan milk snakes.
Looks like they all shed out,
which means they're probably a couple days old
to be totally honest with ya.
One last stack to go.
Gosh, I tell you what,
baby snakes are always so exciting to see what...
Oh my goodness!
Those are some beautiful Apricots Pueblan milk snakes.
Wow!
Some Apricot Pueblans are really pretty,
but this is a spectacular one
And if I can see...
Oh gosh, they're gonna start getting away
if I'm not careful.
I can see it looks like a little Halloween
right over here too.
Maybe not the best Halloween,
but definitely the start of a Halloween.
You could see this back pattern here
that's lacking the red triad.
Really beautiful.
But wow, that clutch was absolutely breathtaking.
Oh, I love these.
Oh, I love these so much.
These are actually Snow Texas rat snakes,
so they're Albino and Anerythristic.
And I've told the story before
that we actually produced the very first Anerythristic,
just kind of spontaneously popped out
when we were breeding Texas rat snakes once,
and then we bred it to an Albino and popped out Snows!
So the Anerythristic was actually het for Albino,
and now we produce Snow to Snow,
which is absolutely incredible.
I'm gonna have to set the camera down guys,
'cause if I set these down,
there's no way I'm gonna be able to
get these things in here.
So all right, always check the heads,
make sure there's no heads in there.
Last babies of the day.
Ooh, a bunch of Mosaic California king snakes.
Beautiful, those black and whites.
Ooh, look at this one right here.
Take a look at that.
Hoo!
I tell you what, those are what we call a Tire Track one.
This is another one right there.
Absolutely wonderful.
And those do breed true, the Tire Track ones.
So, well, I tell you what, some baby colubrids hatching.
Lori is gonna be back tomorrow,
she's gonna have to set up a lot of babies.
Hope you enjoyed today's video with all those baby snakes.
I tell you what,
I'm gonna miss it when it's over,
but I hope that you enjoyed it.
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Have an absolutely wonderful day, reptile army.
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