- Hey, good morning, everybody and welcome to the blog.
I hope to start your day is absolutely amazing.
We have something
that's gonna be pretty interesting possibly happening today.
I actually had a baby snake,
unfortunate little baby ball python
that just didn't make it out of the egg, passed away.
That happens, and we never want to waste things
if we don't have to.
So we ended up freezing it and Bruce came up
with a pretty good idea.
He actually has a really cool collection of cobras
and cobras do like to eat snakes.
So I think that Jay and myself are gonna pack up,
hit the road, go visit Bruce
and see if maybe this cobra
will eat this little baby ball python.
Over here at Bruce's house
and you know that we had that poor baby ball python
that didn't make it out of the egg.
Didn't want to put it to waste so we came over here
and what are we gonna try to feed it to?
- So I actually have a really special point
and I really wanted to try and do our Nigel Knocker Cola.
And it's our spitting cobras, black's next fitters.
So like, honestly, they don't really do a hop
and man are they aggressive eaters, dude.
I can't wait to show you like a quick video.
I really have a good feeling about this.
I'm not sure.
You never know what might may actually happen to me,
may not, but I mean, it's worth to try
'cause like these are snake eaters, right?
- That's awesome.
Well, I have seen cobras eating snakes on video.
I've never seen in person,
so let's just jump in and see what happens.
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And she just took it.
I mean, wow.
That is so cool, Bruce.
That is awesome.
- I didn't, oh my God, I didn't even expect it.
Like I was just like,
I was like, maybe she will, maybe she won't.
Oh my God, dude, that's insane.
- That is absolutely awesome
and obviously we're wearing eye protection
'cause obviously it's a spitter, but wow, that is cool.
First time I've ever been able to see a cobra
eat a little ball python.
Again, you know, just didn't want that animal
to go to waste.
It had perished in the egg
so what better way to recycling than to have a cobra eat it.
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Dude, that was so absolutely ridiculous.
- Oh, that was so awesome.
- She crushed it too, man.
That is amazing.
- Dude, like you would think
that she would probably like stopped halfway
or a quarter of the way and been like, this is too much
or let me just spit this out and you're like, no, dude,
she crushed it.
- That was absolutely up to be coming.
To see it in person, ridiculous, that was awesome.
Thank you Bruce, I appreciate it.
We're gonna feed a couple of other things, right?
- Actually I do, yeah.
I do have some couple other arrests thought out
and we're wrote ready to rock it, dude.
- Let's go ahead and do it.
The next step we actually have to lose cystic Monica.
Whoa!
These girls got some fire to her.
Look at this girl.
Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa.
Wow, what an egg!
She's ready to roll.
Come on girl.
Oh good.
Oh, man.
You could literally just hear the crunch
of those fangs going into that mouse who die.
I tell you what Bruce, I wouldn't want to get that thing.
That's really aggressive bite right there.
Look at her, just crushing through it too.
That is a beautiful state.
And this is actually that loose cystic model corn
that has come to the rep a couple of times
and just been a puppy dog, right?
You get here in her environment, completely different animal
who had enough jumping out of the cage or whoa.
- This for sure her role.
This is like, she rules this place as the queen here.
- She is awesome.
- [Bruce] She crushed it.
- Wow, she goes so quick.
- [Bruce] Oh my gosh.
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- That is legitimately the fastest
I've ever seen a snake eat two mice.
I mean, it couldn't have been 90 seconds.
She was done with too mice.
- [Bruce] That is an impressive play.
- Guest stuff we actually have a little puff adder.
Of course, Africa's finest.
Oh, I tell you what these guys have a quick bite
and they are nothing to mess around with.
They are so fast.
I mean they are humble.
I mean, I think went from zero to like that.
I mean, oh, whoa.
- [Bruce] You just never ready for it.
You're just never ready for it.
- Oh, that's a grazing.
That's a good snake right there.
That's like that thing is awesome.
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In the dungeon, which means.
Hey tar, hey tar, hey tar, hey tar.
Hey, tar, and this is actually a nice pinstripe female.
This is the first clutch that we pulled
now that we have them on the reptile prime coconut bedding.
So it's kind of a different feel, isn't it?
That's pretty cool
so the females nest it down really nicely.
It looks like she's still not that happy about it
(chuckles) to be honest with you
and she was bred to a pretty cool male.
And it's this black pewter lesser cypress.
What a gorgeous animal!
Let's see how many eggs she has.
Like I said, mama is not happy at all.
There go girl, come on baby.
Oh, you go, oh, it's a nice clutch of eggs though.
I tell you what,
it's so much easier pulling the eggs and his bedding
as opposed to them getting stuck on the paper.
There's no doubt about that.
I think the animals are gonna be happier
or definitely just overall better look.
Like as I said, we're gonna continue to add to that as well.
So we'll go ahead
and just kind of put this clutch right down
and here we've got two, four, six, eight beautiful eggs.
Not bad, that's actually a really good thing
and the combination they're adding the pinstripe
to that Black Butte or lesser Cyprus.
Whoa, that could produce some pretty cool babies.
Let's see what this next clutch has to offer.
It's actually just a normal bread
to a banana and G pinstripe.
Ooh, it looks like some sluggers in there for sure.
Not sure if there's gonna be any good eggs.
Oh, this does not look.
Oh, there's some good eggs
and there are actually some good eggs.
Definitely some slugs, some good eggs.
She's really got these things wrapped up though,
that's for sure.
And they have a little bit of a problem
getting this girl off her eggs.
Oh, gimme those eggs, mama.
Come on, come on.
Oh, she is just really being a little monkey.
Oh, there you go.
That's actually a pretty nice clutch of eggs
to be totally honest with you.
Definitely some sluggers.
She's not happy with me, I understand.
I sold her clutch of eggs.
She's being a good mom so I wouldn't imagine
she would be happy with me, but go ahead just shut her up.
She actually had five bad eggs
and two, four, five good eggs.
So 50, 50 clutch.
But I'll be honest with you.
When I first saw that,
I didn't think there was gonna be hardly any good eggs.
So the fact that we have five good eggs,
that's actually a huge bonus.
And kind of a disappointing hat on this clutch right here.
These are some beautiful habits, OCA teas,
but it was actually a possible hat scale
as it was bred to an Abbott's OCA tea scale.
So these are all Abbott's OCA teas that are hat for skills,
but I was hoping she proved it to be a hat
and half of these ones,
should've been scale as Abbott's OCA teas,
that's how it goes.
Sometimes the odds are good, sometimes they aren't.
In this case, the possible had just didn't prove out
to be a head, now she's just a complete Abott's OCA teas
and we know in the future, we can either breed her,
improves more head Abbott's scale us,
or we could just produce more Abbots with her
and not actually try,
now that we know that she is definitely not head
for scale is.
But nevertheless, a bunch of beautiful animals
and when these get bigger, all these saddles here
are gonna be bordered with these thick black borders
which are absolutely beautiful.
And that's why the Abbot's OCA tees
are typically sought after
as the most kind of awesome of all of the OCA tee corns.
She's a pretty interesting clutch right here.
This is actually a quad hard female
bread to a blizzard corn steak.
So it's head for like four different things
and then of course the blizzard is actually in help
bino type B or charcoal corn snake.
And you could see some of these came out charcoal,
corns like this charcoals, we've got normal,
and it looks like maybe we got some black
or yep, definitely.
This is a little black corns they go
and I've got snakes getting out all over the place now.
Oh my gosh, you guys know what happens with this, right?
Once they start going, I am in trouble.
So it looks like we have, we have normal corns,
we have black corns, and we have charcoal cores,
which are the type B are muted and oh my gosh,
I'm in trouble, all right.
I'm gonna go ahead and set this camera down
'cause I am gonna be in big trouble.
Snakes are all over the place here.
Oh my gosh, they're all over.
That's it.
Okay, come on.
Oh, it looks like we have a little blood red corn snake
in here too.
That's interesting.
I didn't even know it was heifer blood, right?
So there's all kinds.
There's blood corns, oh, there's a Motley corn in here too.
So we've got Motley corns, we've got blood red corns,
we've got black corns, we've got muted corns.
Oh my gosh!
We have all kinds of stuff but at one thing we do have
is a lot of snakes all over the place.
Oh my gosh.
Holy cow.
Oh my gosh, oh my gosh, oh my gosh, oh my gosh.
Oh my gosh, come here.
Come here, come here, come here, come here, come here,
come here, come here.
Oh my gosh.
There are so many snakes out right now.
It's not even funny.
There, I don't think there's a good chance
of me getting these all in this box at once.
Whew, come on.
No, no, no.
Get in.
Okay.
Make sure there's no heads in there.
Okay.
It looks like we're good.
No heads, so all, whoa.
All right, well that was a beautiful clutch of eggs
but that was an absolute disaster the I handled it.
So there it goes up.
Kluber season's in full swing.
We got a lot of babies.
All of these eggs are gonna be hatching
over the next month and a half.
You guys know, I always want to show you the babies
when they hatch out.
We actually had that clutch that was a pastel
to the pewter lessor.
So it looks like we've got a few pastel lessors here.
Really good actually.
I think there's three, to be honest with you.
Three pastel lessors right here which is cool
'cause you got to remember that pewter
is actually a pastel lesser cinnamon.
So these are three pastel lessors here.
We ended up patching out a couple single gene Sinise
which I and Alex, we love it.
It's one of my favorite single gene animals.
I know I like the dark more stuff, they're really cool.
And then we ended up hitting actually a pewter lessor here,
which is the pastel, the skinny and the lesser,
just like the daddy right here.
And then we did hit
one of the super pastel Cyndi lessors right here.
So it's kind of basically that sterling lessor
basically is what's going on or super lithium,
whichever you want to call it.
So all in all, a pretty cool clutch of eggs,
not quite as beautiful as the first clutch
that we had that had those silvery purple ones,
but nevertheless, a bunch of really cool babies.
So we'll get these set up, get a meeting
and get them on the website soon.
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And we just have four eggs here.
This isn't like one of those like crazy clutches.
I'm not expecting anything too insane.
But hey, you know what?
If it's the Calico, Calicos are pretty cool
and in that inchy, extreme gene pin stuff is super dope too.
So again, not every punch
is gonna be world's first or fingers,
but there's still going to be some cool animals.
Again, any baby steak is amazing.
Let's jump into egg number one.
We get with these dual fiber clutches.
It's always kind of fun to find out who dad actually is
and oftentimes, the first egg will tell us a lot.
In this case, it did tell us a lot.
This is a Calico.
So there you go.
Right off the rip, we know that the Calico was the dead,
at least for the first day.
And I've explained this in the past
that they had had the father each egg,
but doesn't necessarily have the father
of the entire clutch.
So we could have two eggs by the Calico,
two eggs by the extreme pin inchy.
You never know what's going to happen, egg number two.
But it's cool that we were able
to kind of immediately find out what the dad is
and the Calico's are pretty polymorphic as well.
There's some really good ones and then not so good ones.
This happens to be just the normal ball python,
it doesn't look like it is a Calico,
it doesn't look like it's extreme.
Although you never know when it hatches out.
It could potentially be an extreme.
We'll find out, two more eggs.
And like I've been mentioning,
we're only on clutch 24 right now.
We have 130 clutches still to cut this year.
So we have a lot of eggs to cut.
Another normal ball python.
So that's a little bit disappointing.
So far we just got a Calico and then a couple of normals.
And again, you've got to remember that Calico is incomplete.
Dominant meaning that 50% of the babies
are gonna be Calico.
Right now, if we hatch another Calico, we hit her on 50 50.
So let's see what that last day gets the whole.
Come on, be a beautiful Calico for me.
I would love that.
That would make my day for sure.
There's no doubt about that
and what do we have at the end?
It's a beautiful Calico.
It had what I'm talking about, people,
and you can see what happens is that as a baby,
the Calicos almost have pink in the side.
That pink turns white as they get older
and this one's got that beautiful pink orange,
you look to it, that's gonna be a really good Calico,
I feel so.
All in all, it worked out exactly like you'd expect it.
Two Calicos, two normals, exactly what the odds are
and I go, hey, I can't complain about that.
How wild was that?
You know, I've seen videos of cobras eating snakes.
I always wanted to see it in person.
And again, because that snake didn't make it out of the egg,
we put it to good use, absolutely amazing.
A bunch of other cool stuff.
We're definitely gonna do a complete like room tour
over at Bruce and Jasper's play sometime,
maybe in the next few weeks.
We'll see what happens.
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with a bunch of big animals and dangerous animals
and stuff like that.
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