- This is the first ball python of the year
to lay eggs.
♪ Python eggs ♪
♪ And python eggs ♪
(jazz music) - And she was bred to this
absolute ripper of a male,
a bumblebee vanilla bamboo.
So let's see how many eggs this beautiful pastel animal has.
It's actually a pastel yellow belly.
Does look like we've got a couple infertile eggs here,
which happens sometimes,
in the very first clutches of the year,
to be honest with you.
But there's certainly some beautiful clutches too.
And mama sometimes isn't very happy with me.
- I kill you.
- Four good eggs and three infertile slugs, unfortunately.
The fertility sometimes is like that.
We're actually using HatchRite
as a medium to put 'em in here.
And we're gonna go ahead,
set these guys up,
take 'em over to the incubator right now.
(whoosh sound and suspenseful music)
Well, I'm in my incubator and it is completely empty.
The first clutch is going down right now.
It goes in here.
First clutch of the year in the incubator.
We'll check on these every couple days
just to make sure that they're doing well,
and we'll check back with you guys here
about half way through incubation.
57 days from now we're gonna be cutting this clutch.
(whoosh sound and suspenseful music)
Mike, what do you call a smart omelet?
- What?
- An egg head.
- That's dumb.
( laughs)
- 57 days seems like a long time,
but thankfully here at The Reptile Zoo,
we're always so busy with things.
Uh-oh, Lilith came down.
Come on, girl.
Ah, there you go.
Of course we always have so much to do here
at The Reptarium that really time passes pretty quick.
You want?
Lilith, no.
Typically Nova's the one that is the bully,
but Lilith today is saying,
I'm gonna eat all the food.
Which is fine because of course,
she laid eggs just about a month ago.
We've got about 30 days till we have little baby frillies
the eggs look really good and I'm super excited about it.
C'mon guys.
So all in all 57 days will probably go pretty quick.
- Mike, I'm stuck
- Doing what?
Nothing. What do you think you're gonna be doing in 57 days?
- I have no idea.
I don't know what I'm doin' tomorrow.
- I'll probably be right here.
What do you think your beard would look like
if you didn't trim it in 57 days?
- I dunno.
(dramatic music)
Noah, it's been 30 days.
- What?
(shouts) 30 days? What?
- It looks the exact same.
- Your chin hair hasn't grown at all.
- I know,
maybe like half of half a centimeter.
- All right,
get back to me in 27 days.
(Whoosh and suspenseful music)
- And with a snap,
it's actually been halfway through incubation.
When it comes to clutch number one,
we actually only have 12 clutches
in the incubator right now,
tons more.
I mean the laying season is upon us,
there's no doubt about it.
Let's just go ahead
and take a peek at these eggs really quick.
Looks like we still have four,
we had four good eggs to start.
Four eggs are still looking good.
We're halfway through.
Another 27 days 'til cutting time.
As ball pythons are hatching,
we've got some still laying eggs.
This is actually a pin stripe,
that is head for ghost
bred to this ripper right here,
which is a silver streak bamboo woma.
Let's see how many eggs mama has.
Looks like a pretty good clutch.
Got one.
Oh, got a couple little sluggers here
but there's actually a bunch of good eggs.
We do have a couple slugs.
Let's get 'em over here into the box real quick.
We've got 2, 4, 6, 8, beautiful eggs.
A couple sluggers,
that's okay.
These are gonna hatch in another 57 to 60 days as well.
(whoosh and suspenseful music)
- Noah, it's day 45.
Noah, wakey-wakey
(screams)
- I can't even believe it,
your beard looks the same.
- It's looked the same since like fourth grade
- Wake me up in 12 more days.
(dramatic music)
(whoosh and suspenseful music)
- I know you guys are excited,
as excited as I am?
I'm not sure about that.
But our first clutch of ball python
that went into the incubator right now,
are about ready to go.
Look at how they look right there.
There's four eggs,
all four eggs made it term
and tomorrow is the big day.
We're gonna be taking these to the shop,
doing an egg cutting for the first time this season.
So literally just one more sleep
and we're gonna have our first egg cutting
(whoosh and suspenseful music)
It's seven in the morning
and I had a hard time sleeping last night
because today is the day.
Clutch number one, right here.
Let's take a look and make sure no one picked out overnight.
Nope. There's four eggs left in this one.
This is gonna be the first clutch of the year,
that we're gonna cut.
So let's head over to the shop
to our first egg cutting for the year.
I couldn't be more excited.
- (laughs) I'm so excited.
(indistinct) tickle someday.
- That's how excited I am,
so excited.
This is clutch number
one thousand one million two for me.
- I don't have that many experience at eggs,
but I do see the egg cutting all the time.
I like to watch,
get the little knowledge going
for when we have to have those ball python quizzes going,
you know.
- I, uh, eggs.
- How did the omelet find out that she was ill?
- The omelet? The yolk was bad.
- After she went to a medical examination
- Examin--
Jeez Louise
(fake laugh)
- I'm super stoked,
this is my first year breeding
with these ball pythons.
Excited to see what new combinations
I get to play with this year.
- I started in November.
So I came at the very end of the season last year.
All these cute little babies and all these eggs,
I'm just super stoked to see what comes out of these eggs.
- Can't wait, let's go!
- And here we go guys.
Again, this is a pastel yellow belly
bred to a bumblebee vanilla bamboo.
There's only four eggs.
I've got some scissors.
Remember, I usually use razor blades.
We're trying something different this year.
Kevin McCurley actually does it where
there's no blood vessels that get broken
which will be kind of cool.
Never done it before.
So hopefully it works out four eggs, no idea.
This is exciting.
The first clutch of the year.
What I'm gonna do is
I'm gonna just pinch the egg first
and barely clip like this.
Bam! Like that.
Then I'm gonna take these scissors
and I'm just gonna keep at the very top
and hopefully I won't cut any blood vessels.
Again, I haven't done this before
so this is the first time I've done it.
And I already see there's a blood vessel
that got popped a little bit, but not too bad.
Okay. We're good on that side
and try to keep these kind of up top here
and see what we have.
Okay. So the first egg looks like it's a bumblebee vanilla.
It doesn't look like there's a bamboo in it
but definitely a bumblebee vanilla, which is a pastel.
It's a spider and it's a vanilla.
We've got three eggs to go.
Little snip, gonna get better at this as the year goes on,
I guarantee you that.
Go around here.
Takes a little longer to cut though with the scissors
but hey, it's a better result, right?
Let's see what we got in this egg.
Can't tell it's upside down a little bit.
Okay, so this is actually,
whoa, wait a second here.
This is interesting.
This is very interesting because
this is definitely a bamboo.
It looks like it's a bumble bee and
it definitely looks like it's a vanilla.
So it looks like it's an all gene animal.
Oh, I get what this is.
This is actually a super pastel bumblebee vanilla bamboo.
So this is all gene animal here.
Woohoo doggy.
We finally hit the all gene animal.
It's got such a reduced pattern on it.
Very, very interesting looking,
definitely lovin' this one,
that's cool.
And again, the technique is pretty cool.
Gotta get it down a little bit better,
but hey we've got two eggs to go.
We already hit an all gene animal,
so that's pretty awesome.
Let's see if the next two egg brings some cool snakes.
This is a really beautiful snake right here.
I don't-- let me see what I can see in it.
Wow.
What in the world is that?
It almost looks like there's calico in it
or something like that.
That is a beautiful snake.
Definitely looks like a super pastel,
maybe a super pastel vanilla yellow belly.
That's got so much blushing on it.
It's absolutely a ripper.
I wasn't expecting something so blush.
So definitely not a bamboo ,
definitely looks like a super pastel
and it definitely looks like a vanilla
and a yellow belly, but really a gorgeous one.
One egg to go.
Okay, we're about to see what's in this last egg.
Gotta kinda move this around just a little bit
to see what's inside here.
Oop, this one just looks like,
ironically enough,
it looks just like a spider vanilla,
possible yellow belly.
So no bamboo, no pastel, which is weird
because, again, it was pastel on both sides.
So it's unusual to not get a pastel.
So this is the first clutch of eggs
that we've cut for the year.
These guys will be outta the egg in the next couple days.
And we're gonna show you that in just a minute.
(whoosh sound and suspenseful music)
Quick egg quiz.
Whoever gets the most right, I actually buy them lunch.
The other person has to just watch them eat, I suppose.
First one is how long do chicken eggs take to hatch?
- Mike grew up on a farm.
- Ah, I want say it's like sssss...
60, 70 days, something like that.
- From laid to hatched?
- Yeah.
- Imma go seven days.
- Way to contrast.
Well, it happens to be 20 to 21 days.
- Dang it.
- You were closer.
- Yeah, you win. - I was closer?
- Wait. No, we didn't say--
- That was 14 days, yeah!
- (laughs) We say closer.
Someone's gotta win or lose Mike, y'know?
- Alright. I said 20 days.
(laughs)
- Basically this vlogs about ball pythons,
but we have some colubrids to cool as well.
This is awesome.
This is what they call a granite corn snake
which is a diffused corn snake, anerythristic corn snake.
And it's actually bred to a scale-less
blood red or diffuse corn
and a beautiful clutch of eggs right here.
I'm super excited about all eggs.
These guys will hatch in about 60 days.
Now, we don't cut the colubrid eggs
because they hatch on their own pretty well.
And they're small and they're kind of hard to cut.
You know what I mean?
But we've got 2, 4, 6, 8, 10, beautiful colubrid eggs.
Next up mangrove snakes.
How long do the eggs take to hatch?
- Oh, I think I know this one.
I think it's like 90 days
- Then I'm going 70
- Happens to take about 100 to 115 days.
Mike, you win this one.
- I knew it was longer, baby.
Booya!
- I meant Canadian days.
- So guys, it's been a couple days
since we cut this clutch and look at,
we've got this little baby's head sticking out.
- I insist on being here
when they're born
- We got this one, actually out of the egg,
the other one's almost out.
So all four of 'em will probably be out here
in the next day or two.
- Do it by hand?
- No, he's doing it by his mouth.
- You think he'll eat it?
- Yeah.
- You you using the small ones?
- Oh, don't open that side.
What are you doing?
- Get in here, Mike.
You gotta get over by Noah.
In case it jumps out, you gotta catch it.
- Where's Bruce?
(screams) Oh my God.
- Shut the case,
shut the case.
- Whoa. Sheesh.
- That was, that was intense.
- What did I tell you, dude?
It's fast as balls!
That was so wild.
- and it hit so hard.
- It's dancing.
It's doing a happy dance.
- Yeah, look, that's cool.
But they web at the same time.
- All right now let it do it's happy dance.
(suspenseful music)
Just zoom in on that.
(suspenseful music)
- Why would you just stick your finger there?
You guys know I love Parson's chameleons.
How long do Parsons' eggs take to hatch?
- It's uh--
- I know 330 days.
- It's not a year, is it?
It might be a year.
Some change.
- How many days is that?
I dunno, three hundred and sixty... four.
- Well, you're both a little bit shy here.
Believe it or not,
Parson's eggs can take up to two years to hatch.
I suppose Mike was a little bit closer
by just a handful of days.
- That's two.
(whoosh and suspenseful music)
- And all the babies are out of the egg now.
This is actually a pastel, spider,
vanilla, yellow belly, bamboo.
Oh my gosh.
That thing is incredible.
This happens to be a super pastel, vanilla,
yellow belly on blue.
That's the one that had all that blushing in the side.
Woohoo. I tell you what, that's a beauty there.
And then we have a little vanilla bumblebee,
which just is a pastel spider.
And then it looks like just a normal spider,
possibly a vanilla spider.
So we're gonna go and get these set up.
They're gonna shed out in about a week
and then we'll see 'em then.
(whoosh and suspenseful music)
How long does a leopard gecko egg take to hatch,
if you're incubating at 82 degrees?
- Does it hatch quicker if it's hotter temp?
- It's 82, that changes everything.
Yeah, I'm gonna guess 47 days.
- I'm thinking like 65.
- Well, Mike gets lunch because they typically
take right in that 40 day range to hatch.
- Boom baby. You gotta watch more than Mr. Brian vlogs.
- Don't touch me.
Why did you give him the answers
before we did the quiz?
- I didn't give anyone the answers.
- I don't know, I might have to check the security.
- They cheated way too many times in the past,
so I just plug my ears when they talk, y'know.
- Where can you go to learn more about eggs?
- The incubator?
- The hen-cyclopedia.
It has been about a week and they've all shed out.
I want to show you the process from start to finish.
And that's how we're gonna be doing the majority
egg cutting this year.
This happens to be that bumblebee vanilla
which is just crazy.
Again, it's a pastel, it's a spider and it's a vanilla.
And after that shed, woohoo, they are beautiful.
And it's interesting 'cause after a shed
they look a lot different, right?
I thought this was maybe just a normal spider ball python,
but this is definitely a vanilla spider.
Look at how clean and beautiful it looks
And oh man, did I love the way this one turned out!
Look at the blushing.
Of course this is super pastel, vanilla, yellow belly.
Oh man, that thing is gorgeous.
And then this is that last one
with the little paradoxing on its head
this, of course,
is the pastel, vanilla, spider, bamboo ball python
So I hope that you guys enjoyed,
kinda seeing the entire process
from the time they laid eggs
to the time they incubated.
From the time they incubated
to the time we cut 'em,
hatched out and then a core shed.
So you see the entire process.
I like that way.
Let me know what you think about it in the comments.
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- Wait, I thought we were doing another day.