- This happens to be the newest project
that I'm working on here at BHB.
And it's what I'm now calling the pumpkin Ball Python.
And today is a pretty exciting day,
because his first clutch that he produced this year
is actually ready to cut.
And he was bred to a bangin' female, which is
this super enchi spinner that laid nine beautiful eggs.
Now I am so excited to see what's in this clutch,
to start to decipher what's going on with that new gene
or what I'm now calling the pumpkin ball python,
because it's an absolutely beautiful project.
And with nine eggs, we might get some pretty cool things.
So for those of you guys that
love snake egg cutting, guess what?
We've got a banger clutch.
Let's head over to reptarium and cut this clutch.
So here's that clutch of eggs.
And I'm telling you what, I am so excited about it.
Because remember this is that
new gene now called pumpkin ball python.
I don't know what to expect and because it's
a super enchi spinner means everything is going to be enchi.
I mean, there's going to be some wild stuff in here.
I'm hoping that we produce some things
that we've never seen before.
What do you say we jump in?
This clutch is a clutch I've been waiting for, for sure.
So let's do it.
And here we go, guys.
I'm telling you what I'm like shaking on the inside.
Just to see what we might see in this clutch of eggs.
The new gene, the pumpkin ball python for the first time.
It's hard to say, cause this one's a little bit upside down,
but boy, that head is wild looking.
Oh my God.
Oh, whoa.
What in the fricking world is that?
Oh my gosh.
Are you kidding?
I don't know what it is.
Oh my God.
The head is wild.
The body is crazy.
Oh my gosh.
This pumpkin gene is going to be a banger.
That's the first egg guys.
We still have eight more eggs to go.
That first egg is something like I've never seen before.
So, all right, let's jump into egg number two.
Egg number two,
I don't know if we can beat that egg number one.
Wow. That was crazy looking.
And wow.
Look at that one too.
Super reduced.
I mean, the thing that's wild
about this that I wasn't expecting is
that there is like this unbelievable reduction
of pattern so that pumpkin gene makes a lot of orange
but it didn't think it was going
to reduce pattern like this.
Already two animals.
Crazy results. We still have seven eggs to go.
Holy cow. What is this next egg going to bring?
Here we go.
Woo doggy.
Okay. Now we've got just kind of a more normal thing here.
It looks like really just an enchi pinstripe.
Cause remember this is a super enchi.
So everything is going to be enchi.
It looks like an enchi pin.
Doesn't look like cinnamon.
Doesn't look like the new gene or the pumpkin animal.
So that's going to happen.
Let's move on to egg number four.
Oh my goodness gracious.
That was crazy.
And listen, I don't mind producing some normal stuff.
That's just going to happen in clutches like this.
Now this is going to be an interesting one here
because it's a little bit normal looking.
So it doesn't look like
it has spider or pinstripe, but it definitely has enchi.
And it might be an enchi pumpkin.
because it doesn't look like
there's any other genes in here and there's no pastel.
So this isn't a pastel.
So this looks like kind of maybe,
the enchi new gene without the cinnamon.
That's what I was really interested in seeing.
Is to see what that gene stand alone is.
Or at least in this case with the enchi.
And remember, we still have four more
clutches coming from it.
So we have some banger ones coming.
Let's go ahead and cut these last five eggs.
All right. Let's see if we can top that egg number one
because that thing was absolutely ridiculous.
And here we go again, this looks like the same type
of gene as the first one, here it, guys, it is so cool.
It is ridiculous how this looks.
The interesting thing
about this is I think we've cut five eggs now
and I don't think we've hit a cinnamon in any of them.
Remember that male was a cinny pumpkin, so that's crazy.
Right. But we still have four eggs to go.
Let's see what happens.
All right, here we go.
Every egg is just so exciting.
Egg-citing, of course.
Let's see here.
This one is actually turned over,
so I can't really see it.
Gosh, again, this is super reduced.
Now that looks like probably an enchi spinner
and it looks like the pumpkin combined.
So wow. That one's going to be crazy
I can not wait about four or five days.
These will be out of the egg.
We are going to unbelievably unveil some incredible animals.
Three eggs to go.
Here we go.
I just want to see something else that just
like is totally different.
Now I'm jonesing for it.
Let's see what we got.
Ooh, that's different that, Ooh.
Wow. Yeah, that's super orange and that,
I don't know what it is.
I mean, it's definitely a pinstripe.
Don't know if it's a spider.
Definitely an enchi, and it is really cool looking.
I tell you what, I'm not even going to sleep
until this clutch hatches.
So last two eggs, let's do it.
Well, I couldn't be more pleased with the results
of this, you know, I've been digging this new gene
and now pumpkin ball python for quite some time.
But now, to start seeing the results
And the fact that we have again
another animal that is super reduced and super beautiful.
Wow. I tell what guys this gene is going to be awesome.
And again, just think if this is incomplete dominant,
which it appears to be.
If there's a super version, that's going to be crazy.
We actually have some cinny pumpkins that are
yearling females that hopefully we'll be up to
size next year.
And we can maybe produce a super
that's going to be ridiculous.
Last egg.
Alright, come on. Let's end this egg with a banger.
Come on.
Oh man.
I tell ya, come on, come on, come on.
Okay. Well, you know, interestingly enough again,
head pattern really strange, not sure exactly what it is.
This one seems to have a little bit more pattern
than the other ones, but you can definitely see
I think this is that pumpkin as well
really changes things up.
So I tell you what guys again,
results were amazing from this clutch.
Cannot wait to unveil these when they hatch out,
it's going to be incredible.
But this clutch definitely exceeded my expectations so far.
So wow.
I tell you what that was absolutely amazing.
It's going to be a fun journey,
Figuring out this new pumpkin gene.
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What are you guys doing?
- Putting away the groceries.
- [Brian] That's not putting away the groceries at all.
Ooh you got some beets?
I was going to ask you something, Lori.
What do you think about this refrigerator?
- Need a new one. Yeah.
- Yeah, because I mean close the refrigerator.
(laughing)
- That's the way you do it.
- [Brian] Do you think it's time for a new fridge?
- Yeah.
- [Brian] I'm just curious.
- I think it's time for a Home Depot trip.
- [Brian] Should we do it?
- Not today.
- [Brian] Not today?
Okay. Well you're giving the okay for a fridge?
Can I get one?
Can I get like the one
with little computer screen On it?
- No, no.
- Amazon Alexa, Alexa play Lion king.
- [Brian] Yeah. Could we have like lil' music?
Exactly. Jay. I love ya.
- This is why I don't want to talk to either one of you.
(excellent rendition of the song from Lion King)
(laughing)
- [Brian] If you remember the second clutch of ball pythons
that we actually cut this year,
it was actually a piebald bred to a pastel piebald.
Recessive mutation with the pastel incomplete dominant.
Well, these are the results over here of this snake.
Now, interestingly enough, when I cut them,
I thought there was a bunch of pastel pies in here.
Now looking at them, now that they've hatched out,
they actually were all normal piebald,
there was no pastel in them.
Now on average, half of them should have been pastel pies.
So we just kind of whiffed on those odds.
But that doesn't really bother me with pies
to be honest with you..
Because a pastel pie and the pie really look really similar.
And they're absolutely beautiful.
You can see, look at how cool this one is right here.
It's about, you know, 40% white or so we have
a couple low white ones right here that have again
that beautiful pattern with still the white coming out.
Another 40%er or so right here that absolutely is a ripper.
Another little low white one here look always looking
for little smiley faces or numbers
or letters or something like that.
Always interesting patterns,
but I don't see any smileys on any of these guys here.
But definitely have some pretty cool patternings.
No doubt about that.
So this piebald clutch is pretty darn cool.
I mean, unbelievable.
I mean, love hatching piebald ball pythons.
and we have a bunch more pies coming this year.
In the dungeon, so let's go ahead
and roll that dungeon song.
And now we can go ahead and see if we've got some eggs
which we certainly do mama here,
which is a spider ball Python.
And she was actually bred to two different males.
One was actually this pistave orange dream
which is a pastel, a Mojave and an orange dream
and the other was this banana fire pinstripe.
So let's go see how many eggs mama has.
And it certainly looks like she kicked out a few eggs.
So we'll go ahead and take these eggs out.
We'll have to candle them obviously, because when they're
out of the clutch, it looks like mama's ready to bite me
as I'm taking her egg, mama don't you bite me?
Don't bite me, please?
So there's three eggs here.
and then she's coiled around a nice clutch.
Okay. We'll go ahead and get this out yet.
It looks like there's one little Slugger over here.
Another loose egg.
Oh, there's a couple of loose eggs.
So we're going to have to candle a lot of these
in this clutch, to be honest with you.
Because again, if they're not clumped together
that typically means they can roll around a little bit.
Get the rest of these eggs right here.
And it looks like we've got one more egg.
This looks like an absolutely beautiful clutch.
For sure.
Like I said, she's got one little Slugger right here
but no big deal.
The rest of the eggs are absolutely wonderful.
We've got two, four, six, eight, 10, 11 eggs
and one slugger.
So that was another 12 egg clutch.
I was surprised about that.
11 good eggs.
One Slugger woo doggy.
I tell you what, let's candle these ones up and move along.
- What are we doing?
- Listen, I got it. Don't you worry
Today we are going to be doing some enrichment.
So are you ready for enriching?
- Yeah.
- And when was the last time you enriched?
- Yesterday. Actually, earlier today.
- All right. So today we're going to be
enriching our girl Sunfire.
she's a beautiful platinum retic.
Look at it. I trained her-
- It's not-
- No, no, no. Shut up.
I trained her to come crawl out.
As she's doing, and just grab her.
- The best thing to do I think is
to get their other leg up in there too.
Yeah. That way you get the full experience in the cage.
So now that the professionals actually here,
she's a sun fire platinum reticulated python.
Her name's Sunfire.
You doing okay?
I think he's displaying the national behavior of a skunk.
- I'm showing her that I'm not a threat.
- That's very threatening.
- We're going to go interrupt Jay's tour
because he's not very good at his job.
and we need to help him to get through his hour
- Mr.Brian already interrupted so we're going
to go interrupt Mr. Brian's interrupting.
- We're about to make this tour a lot better than it is.
You're holding a bearded dragon,
we've got a big snake for you.
- Look at these shoes.
(laughing, crowd talking)
They love to come over and just take over his tours.
You happy?
I love it!
- This is great.
Jay, the edutainer.
Not Jay, the edutainer and crew.
- Yeah. I'm so excited about that pumpkin clutch.
I can't wait until they crawl out the eggs.
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