- This happens to be a Piebald Ball Python.
Many people, including myself,
still think that it's the most
stunning mutation in Ball Pythons.
Now, don't get me wrong,
people are putting it to a lot of other things.
But the Pied base mark is one of the most striking animals,
and no matter who you are,
if you don't know anything about snakes,
when you see a Piebald Ball Python it's like,
oh my gosh, that thing is absolutely incredible.
Well guess what?
We have a giant female Piebald Python
wrapped around some eggs.
What do you say we see what she's got?
And here we go!
Like I said, this is a giant female,
and this is actually just a Pied Ball female
that's bred into a Pastel Pied Male.
And lets take a quick look real quick.
Hoo doggy!
That is a lot of eggs in there.
Oh my, let me take another peek at that.
Oh my goodness gracious.
That is absolutely epic.
Lets go get a separate egg box
and get these eggs out,
because I can't even imagine how many there are.
All of them are gonna be Pied's,
because it's a recessive mutation,
and half of them will be Pastel Pied's,
because it's an incomplete dominant.
Hoo doggy, mama did good!
(upbeat music)
Back to Mama Pied.
I mean, gosh, this is definitely the largest collection
of Pied's I've ever produced.
I think the largest collection I had last year
was like nine or 10 eggs,
and that was the largest collection of Pied's
I'd ever produced.
So this was definitely going to dwarf that.
This is an absolutely beautiful collection,
and a great way to start my day.
I tell you what, snake breeding is absolutely incredible,
always love it.
And again, to start my day with something
so beautiful like this, that's incredible.
Definitely going to have to take a couple
of these eggs off really quick,
because they're definitely a little bit too hot.
Lets go ahead and get Mama back,
we'll get her cleaned up and ready to go.
She should be back onto food this week,
and get ready for next years breeding.
Here you go, Mama, you did so good, all right!
And again, these eggs are pretty dried up,
so I'm gunna have to be super, super careful
separating these out.
Oh.
Gosh, they are certainly stuck.
It's been many, many, many years of pulling eggs
to know how much pressure I can put on these,
without ripping the egg.
Because if you go too much,
bang, that egg is gonna rip,
and then you're in big, big trouble.
So I'm just kinda finding the weakest points in here,
and just twisting and turning
until I can actually get these eggs off here.
I just want the top two eggs.
Of course another thing you could do is
just go with taller egg boxes,
and not pull them off at all.
Unfortunately, I'm a creature of habit,
and I've been using these egg boxes for so many years,
it's kinda like I'm superstitious,
where like if I change the egg boxes
maybe I won't hatch as many snakes.
So, regardless I just pull them off,
and there's no problem.
It's been a long time since I've actually ripped an egg.
I hope I'm not jinxing myself right now.
Get that egg off.
And once you get it to this,
you can peel it pretty good.
And we'll go ahead and put it down here.
Now for the fun part, let's count them.
Two, four, six, eight, ten beautiful eggs.
I'll be honest, I thought there might be more,
but they're big eggs.
That's 10 amazing eggs.
Again, everything's gonna be Pied,
some are gonna be Pastel Pied.
Hoo doggy!
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Laurie.
- What?
- [Brian] What the heck is this?
(laughing)
What is this?
- [Laurie] What do you mean?
- I was looking at this,
and I'm like...
(laughing)
this is obviously the Bowser stuffy.
But something looks a little weird about it,
I don't know what it is.
- Yeah I know, when I was unpacking them out of the shipment
I got this poor guy out and-
- [Brian] It's twisted
- I know, I was like what's going on here.
He just, he's having a really bad day, so.
- They actually sewed his head on upside...
Who sews their head on upside down
and doesn't realize there's a mistake?
- I don't know, but he is now the office pet.
- [Brian] The office pet, okay.
- Yeah, he can't be sold.
He's our, you think you're having a bad day?
It could be worse.
- [Brian] Yeah.
- Yeah.
- Yeah that's when it's all upside down, yeah.
(laughing)
Well, it's that time again.
I've got a giant pig, almost 20 pounds,
and Ivy just shed out, so she is ready to eat.
Let's go ahead, go in here and see what she has to say.
She knows she's about to get fed.
She's like, hey, Dad, what is going on?
There we go.
Come on, Ivy.
Come on, girl.
Here you go, sweetheart.
Oh yeah.
Oh, right into the water.
Woo!
Tell you what, she definitely took it quick,
and it was about time for a good meal for her.
Remember, we always feed her a giant meal
every maybe, four or five meals,
and then other than that we feed her small meals.
So, this was a big meal for her.
So a good 20 pound pig, that's a cool Anaconda.
Well, Ivy had a meal, so lets see if Aries is interested.
Aries, you want a meal, guy?
Come on, bud.
Come on.
Here you go.
Oh yeah.
He took it right away.
So, we have to keep an eye on Aries, over here,
so that he doesn't interfere with Ivy eating.
But we'll go ahead, let these guys get a meal,
we'll just keep an eye on them.
And if Aries gets in some trouble,
we'll just pull him out
and put him in a holding cage for a while.
But its good, because this is the first meal
Aries has had in probably about a month and a half.
He was off food, because I think he wanted to breed.
So that is awesome Aries is back eating again.
And like I mentioned earlier,
Pied's are absolutely stunning.
This happens to be an Albino Pied.
So Pied's are what they call a recessive mutation,
just meaning that when you breed two heterozygous,
which look normal together,
one in four on average will be Pied's.
Well, this happens to be a double recessive,
it's an Albino and it's a Pied.
So what it basically is, is a one in 16 odds
when you breed two double heads together
to produce something this absolutely amazing.
Now when you breed the Albino to Albino Pied
you're gonna get 100% Albino Pied's and so on like that.
So that's what they call Mendelian Genetics work,
and I don't want to confuse you guys too much.
But nevertheless, pretty simple stuff
when you actually understand it,
but I told, Albino Pied's, all Pied mutations
absolutely stunning.
(upbeat music)
This is actually an incomplete dominant,
which is a Pastel and a Pied.
So it's an incomplete dominant,
and a recessive mutation.
And the interesting thing about Pied's
is when we actually bought
our first potential heterozygous Pied's
most people actually thought they weren't genetic, right?
So when the first ones came in out of the wild,
which we ended up buying a pair
of one of those animals offspring,
people thought it was like an egg fungus thing,
or a temperature thing that was actually
causing a lack of pigment,
and didn't think it was recessive.
So that fact is that even when I bought
into the Pied project
a lot of people thought I was really stupid,
they were like there's no way it's gonna prove out genetic,
you just wasted your money.
And of course all of these years later,
now Pied's have become such a staple,
and again, one of the prettiest mutations of Ball Pythons,
no doubt.
So I'm here at the car wrap place
to actually take a look at the printed car wrap
that we're doing for the van for the Reptarium.
It's not on the van, but it's actually just the print out.
So lets go in and take a look.
So obviously this isn't full size,
- [Girl] No.
- but you get the idea of what this looks like.
- [Girl] Yeah.
- [Brian] So obviously we got sloths on the back,
we got all the animals,
it's going to look absolutely incredible.
So I'm excited about it.
All you need is approval?
- Yep.
- [Brian] You need this?
And I get to take this to show my family?
- Yep.
- Okay good.
So Laurie,
wanna come take a look?
- [Laurie] No.
No?
(laughing)
- This is cool, so you can see it from space.
- From space, yeah.
I always wanted to be seen from space,
you know, that's been a dream of mine since Deck the Halls.
- Yeah.
- Yeah, the movie.
But, so next Tuesday I drop the van off, okay?
- Okay.
- [Brian] All right, so there you go.
- All right.
- Good stuff, huh?
Of course, like I mentioned Pied's are a recessive mutation,
but they are highly variable, right?
You can't breed for the amount of white.
They could have 5% white, they could have 90% white,
and the patterning on each Pied is completely different.
I mean, it's kinda like the fingerprint,
every Pied you produce will be a little bit
different from the other Pied's,
and that's what makes them so special.
As a matter of fact, this particular one here
actually has a upside down smiley face,
and a right side up smiley face.
This is the one that we called Drama,
and Drama actually bred this year too.
Now again, the little emoji smiley faces won't pass on,
cause it's just a random thing.
And out of all the Pied's that we've produced every year,
we usually get several smiley faces,
which is always cool.
Sometimes we'll get letters in the pattern,
I mean, its just a really cool thing,
but it is extremely variable,
and you can't breed for them, it's completely random.
- What in the world, he's biting the fricking thing.
- [Brian] Oh my gosh.
- You get this?
- [Brian] I'm filming, yeah, yeah, yeah.
RJ, what are you...
RJ, what in the world is going on?
We had RJ out just kinda roaming around,
and he started just biting everything,
he's just like trying to attack everything.
RJ!
Calm down, calm down.
Come on, buddy.
(hissing)
Oh.
(banging)
Ooh.
Come on, baby boy.
(grunting)
Up you go, baby.
Okay, you gotta go back, now.
Ashton, help me, quick.
(laughing)
I thought you were gonna trip me.
(laughing)
She's like, I'll trip you.
(laughing)
Back in the water.
It was crazy because as I opened the door
he was literally biting the boxes.
He was getting into a fight with the boxes,
so, when he gets like that,
we gotta put him back home.
But he had some time running around,
he enjoyed himself.
I talked about the variability of Pied's,
being that they can be 5% or 90%,
but there are couple exceptions to that.
Actually, Cinny Pied's typically are super high white,
and these ones here, which are called Spied's,
which are Spider Pied's
are always 90% white with just the head pattern like that.
So if you want an only high white Piebald Ball Python,
you can breed them to Spider, or Cinny,
and you'll get the predominantly white snakes,
with just a little bit of pattern to them.
But Spied's definitely really cool,
unfortunately, this girl didn't produce this year.
So hopefully next year, she will actually have some eggs.
(upbeat music)
- You wanna see him?
- [Brian] Holy moly!
Oh my gosh.
He got huge!
Denali, you are a giant!
(laughing)
what in the...
Jay, this is crazy, man.
- Hopefully he's done growing.
- [Brian] Oh my gosh, this is-
- [Laurie] I don't think so.
- [Brian] That thing is Giant.
- [Laurie] He's so red.
- Mhm.
- [Laurie] Did he get a lot redder?
- But he's also, it's mainly dirt.
- [Laurie] Oh.
- Denali, what are you doing?
I haven't seen you since you were a puppy.
- Hello!
- [Brian] Oh my gosh, you have gotten so big!
Look at how long that dog is.
(laughing)
- [Jay] I know.
- [Brian] That is crazy.
- Come here,
(kissing sound)
come on.
Up, up, up, up.
- [Brian] Oh my gosh!
That is just ridiculous.
That is ridiculous.
- And he doesn't even like stand up all the way.
Imagine if he could.
- [Brian] Oh my gosh, that's crazy.
I love him, we gotta get one.
Can we get one?
- He is awesome.
- Lets get one.
- Maybe next.
- Next.
Look how big our little Frillies are getting,
of course this is Big Mac, and Chicken Strip here.
And of course they're in this new enclosure here,
that they seem to really like.
Lot's of places for them to climb,
run around, and stuff like that.
But they will eventually get upgraded here pretty soon,
because they are getting pretty big.
Probably be able to breed next year, actually,
the pair will be.
We will see what happens, but nevertheless,
they are doing really, really good.
And I just love them, you know?
Again, just look at how cute these things are.
I love Frilled Dragons, they are so cool,
especially when you get them after they're born,
when you can actually habituate them,
and socialize them, and tame them down like this.
I mean, what a fricking cool little dinosaur pet.
Always love getting Piebald Ball Python eggs,
it's absolutely incredible,
and as a matter of fact if you enjoyed this video,
right here is a playlist of a ton of eggs,
you know just collecting eggs.
I think you'll that, click on one or two of those
for me if you don't mind.
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