- This of course is my giant tortoise, Matilda
the Aldabra tortoise.
And she looks absolutely spiffy right now
but the day didn't start out this way.
We decided to give her a little make-over.
- All right, we're about to take our Aldabra tortoise
outside to take a little bath on this nice summer day.
Come on, Matilda.
I was just dying, like walking out.
Our girl Matilda is over a hundred pounds.
So as you can tell, they're struggling a little bit.
Jay, this is a good workout for him.
He hasn't actually lifted anything since 2010.
(laughing)
- The dog bather is now bathing the slob and the tortoise.
- Hey, yeah. It's kind of all I do around here
is walk things and bathe things.
- All right, we're gonna brush all the dust and the grime
of all the hard work that she's been doing lately.
Just eating many sweet potatoes, carrots,
all that good stuff.
- [Jay] Watch it, watch your shoes, dude.
- Oh, dude c'mon man, watch your shoes.
- Oh, sorry, I forgot you had on your red bottoms today.
Hey. Hey, hey, hey, hey!
if you the suit
you mean to tell me you wouldn't say it.
The white shoes with the red on the bottom.
What are you going to do?
What are we supposed to?
What am I doing?
I carried her out here.
Come on, Matilda.
You get a good scratch.
- Yeah, yeah, first, the front of her arms.
She likes the arms, the pads.
Ow! out in a phone call.
Hello? I'm washing the tortoise right now.
It's not a good time.
How many days could you say that?
I work.
Okay. What are you doing?
Washing a giant tortoise.
Hello? I'm washing the tortoise right now.
It's not a good time.
It's like a carwash.
oh, look at that food.
Do more than Mike's like.
Yeah. Do the poop thing.
Do that food.
I love the food stuff, dude.
A poop, poop shoot needs to be clean.
We're just going to take the hose.
We're just gonna, that was greatest button.
That light mist feel good.
Oh, I'm getting it now.
It's more.
My dad's laughing in my face.
Is it okay?
Can I give her a shower all over now?
I think she's good.
Now can we borrow their golf cart to carry her on the front?
Yeah. Ask him.
I don't know something.
He was doing something with bubbles.
All right guys.
So he just gave him Matilda Beth and it went great.
Not even, it's all blown out.
I don't even know what that means.
That's just what you guys say.
What do you think, Lori?
What did they do to, you know, what you can do is come on.
Let's get it.
Where is it?
Go get it.
It's you know where it is?
Oh, you're going to get there.
It looks like a yucky.
Oh my God, dude.
That's why we have the feeding tongs ripped off.
Oh my gosh.
That's good.
Oh my God.
So we're going to put a little bit of coconut oil.
Just the same stuff I use in my hair.
In case you guys are wondering how I keep these locks
so luscious, you know, we can just actually share it.
You know, I get a little, she gets a little, but if you see
she really actually likes it.
It probably feels so good.
Oh, it's like literally the ocean.
See that motion
- Now. Matilda looks absolutely incredible.
We're going to let her spend a little time outside.
Just soak up the sun.
You know what I mean?
She is amazing.
We want to do this for a long time.
I'm so happy that the weather has finally warmed up here
and we can do stuff like this with our animals outside.
And by the way, welcome to the blog reptile army.
I hope to start your day is amazing.
I told her I couldn't be happier with Ducati
the Bowlin's Python and how it's been acting lately.
I mean, it's absolutely incredible.
So we're going to go ahead and see if it can eat real quick.
Come on Bugatti.
You want some food?
Come on.
I know you've been hungry.
There it goes, Ducatti normally doesn't ever take it
out of my hand.
He has to actually have it just laid in the crawls up to it.
So this was one of the first time it's ever eaten that way.
That means it's definitely loving this enclosure.
This is amazing.
What a beautiful snake while we're at it, let's go ahead
and feed veer day.
It looks like she's ready.
Come on girl.
Come on.
She's like, yes, dad.
Give me some food.
There you go, baby girl.
Ah, that's it.
Good girl.
That's awesome.
I mean, honestly, I'm loving this.
This is awesome.
Just actually in the Oreo Pueblo milk snake.
And of course the Oreo are the ones that don't
have hardly any red on them.
So let's go ahead and see how many eggs mama has.
She actually is out of her box.
We'll get her all cleaned up.
Get her cage, all set
get her some water guys are all happy and all that stuff.
Let's go ahead and see what mama has.
Ooh, that's actually a beautiful clutch.
Wow. She wasn't that big of a girl to have this many eggs.
That's always super exciting.
I love it.
There's two, four, six, seven, beautiful eggs.
Tell you what egg season is amazing.
Hope you guys are enjoying it.
We're probably about three quarters away through the Kluber.
Kludges in about a third
of the way through the pipe and clutch.
So we still have a long way to go.
This next clutch is actually an apricot prevalent.
No, I always get confused.
Is it apricot or is it apricot?
I don't know.
I've said that a million times
but I don't really know what the actual thing or is it both?
It's like caramel and caramel.
That's another one I actually struggle with too.
Regardless. A beautiful girl would get her all cleaned up
get her some fresh water, you know that routine.
And we'll see what happens.
Could clutch of eggs.
Who dug it?
I tell you what that is amazing.
And I always say, look at this.
This is what always freaks me out.
That little girl right here had all of those eggs in her.
And I just wonder like, how is that even possible?
I mean, mother nature always is incredible
and it just blows me away all the time.
She had two, four, six, seven good eggs.
I mean, wow.
That is a lot more eggs than I was expecting.
Yes. What time of the year?
It is deco time.
So we finally are getting some baby geckos.
Oh my gosh.
- Which is we used to get, but we're breading a lot less.
- So we're breeding less.
We're just trying to up the quality
of the breeding and stuff like that.
And so I think that produced some smart son.
Holy cow.
They're crazy.
Or this is why this Tangerine is going to be so nice.
Oh my God.
If I opened this, is it going to be a disaster?
Yes. Okay.
So let me just, it's like as soon as they rose, all right
so you can see, these are tangerines right here.
That look absolutely incredible.
We got a budget.
Tremper skiers are going to be the Trumpers
- but they're also tangerines for the Tangerine Tangerine.
- Trampers we've got, I mean, look at all the rainwater.
So hopefully we got, oh yeah.
So we got all three
of the albinos hatch all at the same time.
Of course, we've got some Murphy's pattern lists over here
and then here's a bunch more cool stuff.
We've got some cool patterns
all geesh where we're all over the place.
That's the problem with geckos.
They're all over there.
So, so it looks like we've got maybe about 20
or 25 geckos hatched out so far.
These are the very first cat ghosts of the season
but we have plenty more, again, we're not producing the tens
of thousands that seemed like we use approved
but we are producing a pretty good number still this year.
So it should be really fun.
So yeah, we'll go ahead
and let Jessica set these up and get them going.
And these will be on the website sometime in the future.
I don't know about you guys, but I sure am excited
that we're back in a cutting season.
And today we actually have nine eggs of pretty good clutch.
This was our third clutch of the year.
It was actually a first clutch last year with this pairing
you get all kinds
of combinations of pastel, G Stripe, G strikes
banana G strikes pass out genetic three strikes, regardless.
They're all going to be G strikes.
Let's go to egg.
Number one, here we go.
Again. We know they're all going to be G strikes.
We just don't know what else is going to be going
on in them.
This looks like an actual
just normal G strike right off the rip.
Right? I don't see any pastel in it.
Got a really nice dorsal striping
because some G strengths aren't quite as good as other ones.
That is an absolute spectacular one egg.
Number two, here we go.
And again, some clutches, there's going to be lots
of surprises in some clutches, not so much this one
at least we know there's going to be G structure.
We're going to have to rip.
We've got a banana G Stripe in here.
Gosh, it looks so pretty.
Doesn't it banana a really tiny Stripe on it.
Now it could be a pastel banana G Stripe don't really know
until they hatch out and actually go through a shag.
We'll find out that.
But nevertheless, definitely a banana G Stripe
possibly a pastel banana G striking.
Number three, I tell you G strikes are just really cool.
As a matter of fact, just recently I saw someone produce
this is another banana G strike for sure.
Just recently I saw a G Stripe clown that saw improves
and oh my goodness.
That thing was crazy.
So that's definitely a project I'm going to be going
out of the future.
So that's two banana G stripes, one G stripes,
egg, number four.
There we go.
What do we have?
Another banana G Stripe.
And this one definitely has a pastel.
Cause you could see a lot of color.
Look at that.
Really cool striping on it.
I tell like banana g stripes are unbelievable.
One of my favorite of the bananas, for sure.
So we've already got three of them
in this cluster and we still have five eggs to go.
Here we go.
Normal G Stripe.
Actually, this is a pastel G Stripe.
So that's really cool.
Now that pastel you can see it's a little bit more
diluted has kind of a really cool look to it.
So that is really cool.
So we have a normal G stripe three banana G Stripe
and a pastel G Stripe egg number six so far.
I love it.
I tell you what, just cutting eggs.
It's just so fricking awesome.
We got another normal G Stripe here
and you can really see the difference
between that Paso and the normal G Stripe.
The thing I love so far is the stripes
on these G strikes are really good stripes.
So this is this looking like a really bang and clutch.
We got three eggs and here we go.
What do we have?
Now? Every egg is like another pastel G Stripe.
Another really beautiful Stripe too.
Again, every egg is just like
it's like opening up Christmas every single day.
It's absolutely incredible.
Two eggs to go.
And then we're done with a cutting for the date.
That's kind of sad, but let's cut this next egg.
Here we go.
I see some darkness
which means it's probably at least a normal G Stripe
if not a pastel G Stripe that see where we got.
Yep. It looks like a pastel G Stripe, again
just a lot more yellow.
The normal G stripes, more brownish tan.
These are more yellow.
So we've been crushing it, man.
We've been getting some really cool animals last day.
What will we have?
I'm going to call it pastel banana G Stripe.
And you gotta be kidding me.
It's a pastel banana g-stripe, right?
And by the way, guys, be careful when you're
cutting eggs because you don't want to hurt the animals
but you also don't want to cut yourself.
I get so excited that I literally caught myself
putting an egg.
That is the first time I've ever cut myself
while I've cut at eggs.
I've been cutting eggs for like 30 years.
That is absolutely crazy, but that's how excited I was.
And it was cool that we called the last one.
So that's it for a cutting for the day down here
in the dungeon calling me one thing, right?
So pick whatever song you want and roll that intro on mom.
And this happens to be a beautiful chocolate in
Stripe and she's bred to that banana chocolate spinner.
Meaning that that was the Barney project from before
we all know now the Barney project, isn't a purple snake.
It's still the foundation
of something that could potentially be a purple snake
down the road.
So I'm still super excited to produce these and you know
any banana truck is stuff.
Absolutely incredible.
The fact that we can get banana super stuff.
Absolutely incredible.
So let's just go ahead and see.
Mama looks like she's got a beautiful clutch of eggs here.
Oh my goodness.
Mama don't bite me.
Okay. I'm just going to go ahead
and get these eggs out of here.
I'm telling you what
this is a absolutely gorgeous cloth, but she's not happy.
Hind can understand that.
That's just part of it.
You know, we'll get her all cleaned up soon enough.
She'll forget about those eggs.
She'll get back onto food
and she'll get ready for breeding next year.
The meantime, wow.
Look at this right here.
Two, four, six, eight, nine, beautiful eggs.
Again, not going to be a purple snake
but is still going to be some really cool banana
chocolate stuff that eventually I'm telling you
what will be the Barney ball Python.
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