- Hey, good morning, everybody.
And welcome to the vlog.
I hope to start, your day is incredible.
I know you guys love egg cutting,
and I know that you probably wonder once in a while,
what's it like to cut that clutch of eggs.
Well, guess what?
I have a buddy of mine that had the first clutch
of ball pythons that he's ever had,
and he didn't have an incubator.
I incubated the eggs.
So he's going to be here in a minute
and I'm going to let him cut his first bunch of eggs.
I'm going to teach him going along the way.
It should be pretty fun.
I think you guys will enjoy it.
Let's push our problems aside, and let's just go ahead
and jump into some pretty unique egg cutting.
(blade whipping the air)
(knife unsheathes)
And guess what?
We have a pretty special egg cutting for you.
You might notice I've got a prop over here.
(Chris chuckles)
This is my buddy, Chris.
He's been supporting me for all kinds of time.
And you had a clutch of eggs this year.
Your very first clutch of snakes eggs.
- My first ever.
- Oh my God.
How incredible.
And guess what?
I told him, because we incubated his eggs,
'cause you didn't have an incubator,
that I would allow him to cut.
So I'm going to teach him how to cut this clutch of eggs.
Now the parents were a lemon blast to,
- A puma.
- A puma, so the fact that it's a puma,
that's actually going to be a spark and a yellow belly
because it's an a allelic animal,
everything has to be sparked or yellow belly.
One or the other.
And then of course the lemon blasts is a pastel pinstripe.
So we get all kinds of combinations there.
Really we want a lemon blast spark
or a lemon blast yellow belly,
it's kind of the crème de la crème.
I'm going to cut the first egg for you,
and then I'm turning over my razor blade,
and it's all up to you.
You ready for it?
- I'm ready.
- All right, so what you want to do is literally,
you got to remember you're going in at an angle, right?
You're not going down and cutting through the egg.
You're gonna subcutaneously cut through the egg,
right?
So we're going to start right here.
And I'm basically just going to pierce that
and just go right like this.
Riding the edge of that razor blade
along the top of the egg, right?
And right off the rip, what do we have?
What do we have?
Huh.
Okay, so it looks like we have
just a normal either spark or yellow belly.
It's hard to say what it is.
Either a spark or a yellow belly.
No pastel, no pinstripe.
So I didn't do very good, guys.
I'm going to be honest with you.
(Chris chuckles)
So I failed you a little bit.
Here you go.
You ready?
- I'm ready.
- All right, so step on in.
I'm going to coach you.
You're going to start right here
and you're going to make a little slit
and I'll show you what we do next.
All right, ready?
Very gently, very gently.
No, no, no!
I'm just kidding.
Yeah,
(Chris laughs)
just keep going.
Keep going, keep going.
Yup, you're doing good.
Oh my gosh.
Look at you.
You look like an expert.
- I've been watching an expert for years.
- Yeah, I watched that channel too.
Okay.
So I would go ahead and cut right on this side right there.
And just open that up right there.
Keep going, keep going, keep going, keep going.
And let's take a look and see what's inside here.
We have...
Oh, wait a second here.
What the heck do we have?
Okay, so this is, all right.
That makes sense.
At first I was like, looking like, "What is this thing?"
This is actually a pinstripe spark.
So it's good.
You got pin sparks.
So, right now We have a spark or a yellow belly,
probably a spark and a pin spark.
Let's do that egg next.
Same thing.
You're getting good at it.
(Brian chuckles)
I'm going to help you hold the egg a little bit.
It takes a little time to get used to,
but you're doing good.
There you go.
Just roll right around, make that C cut in there.
And trust me guys, it is a lot more nerve-wracking
than you can imagine doing your first eggs.
You don't want anything to go wrong.
But you're doing really good.
You don't have to worry about it right now.
You're doing good.
I can't wait to, now I'm excited!
With someone else cutting, it's like,
"I want to see what's inside of it, come on!"
Now I know how everyone feels
when I'm cutting eggs.
Chris you don't get paid by the hour,
by any chance do you?
Because--
- Yeah, I do.
(both laugh)
Yeah?
'Cause you sure are taking a long time here.
I'd have been at lunch by now.
All right, so...
(Brian laughs)
I'm just joking with you, dude.
All right, so this is actually a pastel,
what looks to be a pastel spark.
'Cause it doesn't really look like a yellow belly.
It's got really a lot of flushing.
That would be the influence of sparks.
So far it looks like we might have three sparks.
We have a pinstripe, a normal, and a pastel spark.
We're getting close.
Lemon blast spark is the next egg, I'm telling you.
Let's do it.
Lemon blast, lemon blast!
Come on, come on, come on, that's it.
Oh, oh, oh.
Oh, I can't wait.
Anticipation is killing me.
What's it going to be?
(Brian giggles)
Chris.
- Yeah.
(Brian giggles)
- Oh, I don't see a lemon blast though.
I see some normal patterning in there.
I don't know if it's going to be a normal
or a pastel though.
Okay.
Let's see what we've got.
Yup.
Yup, this looks like, let me take a closer look right now.
That looks like just the normal yellow belly.
So again, with the allelic animals, with the puma,
you're going to only be able to get yellow belly or spark.
Every egg has to be a yellow belly or has to be a spark.
Unfortunately, because it's allelic,
you can't produce pumas the first generation,
unless you breed it to either a spark
or a yellow belly, which stinks.
But, we've got two more eggs.
Let's jump in.
Next year, Chris is going to do all the egg cutting
for all 180 clutches.
(Brian chuckles)
- As long as I get paid by the hour.
(Brian chuckles)
- Well, I don't have that kind of money.
I'll be honest with you, Chris!
(Brian laughs)
I'm messing with you, dude.
You're doing really good, man.
For the first clutch, you're doing really, really good.
How does it feel?
Okay.
- It's nerve wracking.
- It is nerve wracking.
- It's nerve wracking.
I'm shaking like a leaf.
- You're doing good.
This looks like either a pinstripe spark
or a pinstripe yellow belly.
We won't know until they actually hatch out.
The problem is a spark and yellow belly
are very, very closely related.
Same thing with gravel and yellow belly.
You can almost hardly tell them apart.
If I were going to guess, I'm going to say that
that is probably a pinstripe yellow belly, but not sure.
We still haven't hit a lemon blast yet.
And we know if it's a lemon blast,
it has to be a lemon blast spark
or it has to be a lemon blast yellow belly.
So last egg, you guys know I wanna finish on a good note.
Let's do it, Chris!
Here we go.
Lemon blast, lemon blast!
We've got to hit it.
We got to hit it!
Gotta hit it!
I don't see any.
It looks a little dark in that egg!
You'd see light brightness if it was lemon blast.
I think we might've missed the lemon blast,
but we still got some really cool stuff.
Let's see what this last one is.
Okay, what do we got?
Ah, it's just a normal sparkler,
it's a normal yellow belly.
Oh!
Chris, still awesome!
- I'm happy.
- Still awesome, man.
You hit some pinstripes stuff, you hit some pastel stuff.
You've got some sparks, you've got some other stuff.
So it's good.
And guys, let me know in the comments, how Chris did.
Be nice to him.
(Chris chuckles)
Be nice to him.
He's a good guy.
He's a really nice guy.
So, there it is.
I taught someone how to cut some eggs.
That was pretty awesome.
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Again, just a few days left and they'll be gone forever.
Just a little bit of a water change and maintenance on Ivy,
but she seems super curious today.
So I decided I'm going to go right in with her
and just interact with her a little bit.
Just see what she's thinking.
How ya doin' sweetheart?
I told you, my time with Ivy is so special.
I've mentioned the fact that she is kind of
my therapy animal and I know that seems weird,
but there's some, I know I don't want to sound too bizarre,
but there's an energy to her that just makes me calm
for some reason.
And I love all my animals
and they all distract me and they're all amazing,
but there's something special about Ivy.
I'm not a hundred percent sure what it is.
I think it's just her curiosity, her overall demeanor,
there's something about it.
And when I'm in with her and can actually interact
with her and have her crawl up to me
and stuff like that, it's just makes me calm inside
and it really does make my anxiety go down.
So that's why I try to spend as much time with Ivy
as I possibly can.
I mean, what an absolutely gorgeous...
Hey, she's blowing bubbles!
That is so cute!
I tell you what guys, I love this girl so much.
And again, I'll just hang out here.
Oftentimes when I'm hanging out in here
and she'll just crawl up to me and just be like,
"Hey Dad, what's going on?"
And we'll just see what she does here.
Hey, baby girl.
Hi.
What an absolutely gorgeous animal.
And the other thing that happens is
I start to fill this water,
obviously it's all drained right now,
So I'll start to fill this water
and a lot of the time, she likes to play with the hose.
As the water's coming in, she'll literally go up
and put her head in it and stuff like that.
So it's almost like a dog instead of a snake.
So she's incredible.
You can see, she's just hanging out with me.
She has nothing, she's not afraid of me.
She's not running away.
She is just absolutely, insanely cool.
Hello Ivy.
What's going on?
It's just cool, man.
Just that feeling of it rubbing up against me right now.
I love this snake so much.
I'm just going to chill out with her
for the next half hour or so.
(synthesizer music)
Well, that was another amazing experience with my girl, Ivy.
Wow, it's unbelievable.
I mean, sometimes it doesn't even seem real, but I love her.
So we're just going to fill her water up
and let her have a peaceful day.
And who knows?
Maybe later on, I'll spend some more time with her.
You guys know, as I was collecting eggs,
not every clutch was great.
Why, we had some pretty small clutches of infertility.
We had one egg hatch out,
but that one egg was absolutely incredible!
This is what they call a Halloween puablan milk snake.
You can certainly see why they would call it a Halloween,
right?
It's black and it's orange.
There's one little red dot on his thing.
And it's a feisty little dude.
What are you doing, little monkey?
But again, that's polygenically bred.
Just meaning that every generation
we're breeding orange animals and less red,
orange animals and less red.
And every single generation, they get
a little bit more orange and a little less red.
And eventually you produce basically
a black and orange snake, hence the name Halloween.
Interestingly enough, not every clutch of ball pythons
that we have, we cut.
Sometimes they just surprise and hatches a little early.
This happened to be a pastel and it was bred
to a pin calico yellow belly.
Amazing results.
Minus the all-gene animal, which would have
been a lemon blast calico yellow belly,
but we hit some beautiful animals here.
This is actually another pinstripe calico.
This is actually a pinstripe calico yellow belly,
and the calico and the pinstripe isn't extreme, right?
But it's still pretty cool.
And then I love this mutation here.
This is actually a calico yellow belly.
Again, once this thing sheds,
it's going to be an absolute ripper.
And as that orange turns into white, woo doggy!
I tell you what, I love the yellow belly
and Calico stuff together.
I think it's amazing.
And then we did hit this one,
which is probably the prettiest animal in the clutch.
This is actually the pastel calico yellow belly right here.
So this is beautiful.
So the only thing this one is missing is the pinstripe,
but the lemon blast calico yellow bellies are ridiculous.
I think we have one or two more clutches that could
potentially produce them.
We've produced them in the past and they are ridiculous.
So nevertheless, a clutch that you guys didn't see me cut,
but you will now see the results.
And again, as always, once these guys shed,
I'll give you a little update.
'Cause trust me, these guys are going to be rockin'.
I'm not going to lie to you, you know.
Earlier today, we had a fun time
with the egg cutting and stuff like that.
But I really needed that Ivy experience.
'Cause you guys know that I've been kind of anxious
the last few months, and I've been trending
much better lately.
Today I had a little bit higher anxiety,
so I wanted to spend some time with Ivy.
Obviously that helped me kind of just feel
a little bit more calm.
And I figured while I have my shorts on,
I might as well go ahead and do a fish spa, too.
It's been a while since I've done it, to be honest with you.
Been so busy and again,
that's another kind of therapy thing, right?
So I just stick my feet in here
and let these fish go to town.
Oh yeah.
I tell you what it is super, super cool.
And to boot, now I can watch baby Kush,
the crock monitor over here.
So it's just a really peaceful thing, you know?
You sit here, the fish are nibbling at my toes.
I've got cupcake over there.
I've got all the animals over here.
I've got Big Mac, the frilled dragon over there, baby Kush.
You know, it's just right now, I need it.
I'm trying to figure out ways to,
be as calm as possible as often as possible.
And it really is helping, but you know,
mental health is one of those things
that you have to work on.
We always think about going to the gym
and working on our physical body,
but we sometimes neglect our mental body.
So I'm working as hard as ever to try to get better.
And like I said, trending in the right direction today,
a little shaky, I'm not going to lie to you.
but maybe some time with Ivy and now in the fish spa,
that'll kind of calm me down
and make things even that much better.
So I'm just going to chill out.
Zen out for a few and hopefully the rest
of the day will be awesome.
(synthesizer music)
Pretty awesome seeing someone be as excited
about cutting eggs as I am.
It's a nerve wracking, I'm telling you,
it's not as easy as it looks.
But Chris did an absolutely amazing job.
And like I mentioned, the therapy with Ivy
was really good for me.
I'm working, guys.
We're going to get through this, I promise.
We will get through this.
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