- Hey, good morning everybody and welcome to the vlog.
I hope the start of your day is incredible.
We have our work cut out for us today because it is that
time of the year.
And that's right, it's python breeding season
and what I have here on these pieces of paper are actually
all of my breeding schemes for all of the ball pythons.
So what basically has to happen today myself and Quinn
have to go and rearrange all of these animals into groups
so that it makes it easy to breed.
Because obviously, if you're breeding this female
to something and this female to something else
you don't wanna have to be like all over the place.
So we basically rearrange all of our animals into groups
that make it super simple for us to get the right males
in with the right females and so on, like that.
And these here are all of my notes of all of the females
and all of the males that I want them to be bred to.
So again, it's gonna take a lot of time 'cause we have
to literally rearrange everything down here as well as
replace all of these with the new 2021 breeding cards
so that we can keep track, kind of catalog what happened
last year and get ready for next year.
So all right guys, buckle up because this took a long time
to figure out but moving them around is a pain in the butt.
But hey, let's make the best of it.
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So I'm gonna kind of take you along on the journey.
The very first male in the first group
is this pastel leopard clown.
So I want him to be in the number one slot.
So basically every male is gonna number one, two
three, four, five, six, all the way down there.
And then over here we're gonna have the first female
which is a female pastel leopard clown
that's being bred to him.
Now, he's gonna breed four or five females so I want
all his four or five females to be here.
Then we move on to group two and their four
or five females here.
And then we work around here and we work all the way down.
So that way when I'm actually breeding I can just grab
that male, bam, next male, bam, next male, bam.
You know again, simplicity.
The simpler it is the less you screw up 'cause I'm gonna be
honest with you, even I've made the mistake before
when it's a little complicated that actually the wrong male
gets in with the wrong group and that's a disaster.
So we wanna always make sure that we know what's going on.
Not to mention when you're putting them back
it's super simple too.
'Cause now you've got group three goes into cage number
three you don't have to go to group three,
"Okay, where does this male go?"
You know something like that.
So doing the work now may be a pain in the butt
but it will organize for breeding down the road that makes
the whole season that much more easy.
So again, first males up, first females up.
Now we gotta do the rest of the group and just kind
of switch things around until it's all done.
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I have a lot of new males that are up to size this year
that are really exciting.
This actual killer leopard clown ball python
which is a super pastel leopard clown ball python
is an 18-month animal that should be breeding some really
cool animals this year.
So get some really cool clown stuff.
And typically the new males are 18-months old.
You can get them up in like nine months if you really push
hard but I'm pretty patient about things to be honest
with you.
So 18-months typically on males, usually two and a half
on females is where you wanna go.
This guy's probably about 600-650 grams.
The threshold is about 500 grams on males so this guy
is plenty big.
And then females I typically won't breed until they're
14-1500 grams again, usually two and a half years old.
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This another new male that we have up the side.
It's actually a pastel spider super angie orange dream.
Beautiful male that is gonna be breeding
to some pretty cool females.
Again, I've talked about how I really wanted
to get that orange dream into things a lot more.
So I'm gonna be taking them to this angie orange dream
right here.
Absolutely incredible.
And the fact that it's a super entry, an entry that means
that we're gonna be getting super orange dream,
super and cheap bumblebees passed out all that other stuff.
Also taking it to this animal here, which is really cool.
This is actually a silver streak, bango mojave.
So there's all kinds of potential genes there.
I mean it's like eight genes potential in that combination.
And then just even a lemon blast orange dream
to produce some more super orange cream stuff
and then a few other females.
So nevertheless, get an idea of what we're doing here.
I spend a lot of time really thinking things out
and trying to put the right males with the right females.
And this year probably about 90% of the females are being
bred to brand new males that have never been bred before
as far as to that particular thing.
So it's gonna be a radically different production season
in 2021 than it was in 2020.
So I'm really looking forward to the progress.
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And it's really important when you're breeding snakes
to really understand the genetics and what you're trying
to go for.
Like take for instance,
this is a banana enchi sinny pinstripe, right?
So you have to understand how those genes are gonna interact
with other animals, right?
So when you're putting them into a group you don't want
to just like throw it into something and go,
"Oh, it might work".
You know if you understand the fact that like for instance,
enchi and champagne, this happens to be a champagne.
Enchi and champagne interact really well together.
So the fact is that champagne is a very overpowering gene.
So when you basically breed an animal
like a normal champagne, like this girl right here
basically almost anything you breed it
into looks almost just like a champagne but if you breed it
into enchi it kind of reduces some pattern
which makes it interesting.
Also when you breed it into leopard it actually works
really well too and then the bananas kind of neat too.
So the fact that I can put banana and enchi and sinny
which makes kind of the pied look with these here
that means I may actually get a banana champagne
that has white pied marking and some marking because
of the enchi.
So again, it just goes to show you that you want to know
what to breed it into.
And I may even go with something like a black pastel
and basically the reason I'm doing that is again
when you breed champagne to black pastel
or champagne to cinnamon, often times you get what they call
ringers or these big white blatching on it.
That's when you see the actual champagnes that have
the big wide blatching on it.
That is where it comes from.
So again, know your genetics as you're actually setting
things up because then you can produce the best
with what you have.
And that's what I've done, is I kind of went
through all the females, all the males and thought,
"What is the best possible combinations I can do
to produce the coolest, possible animals?"
So this is just one example and it goes that way
for every single group that I put together.
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This is actually a pastel vanilla bamboo Walmart,
oh my gosh.
That male is amazing.
Again, first time I'm gonna be breeding this puppy.
Definitely go to some really cool stuff like enchi stuff
and all kinds of different stuff.
Fires, other pastel combinations,
just absolutely wonderful, beautiful snake.
Can't wait to see what his offspring's gonna look like.
You guys know I've been going for this barney ball pipe
for the last several years.
Well, this happens to be kind of the barney ball genetics
but with the pastel.
And like I mentioned the pastel kind of blows it
out a little bit.
So basically what this is is a banana.
It's a pastel, it's a super chocolate and it's a pinstripe
Well, if you took the pastel away it's a little bit more
purple but still not as purple as I really want to get.
So what I thought is let's add another gene into it.
So if I added cinnamon in this case, this girl right here
in a couple of just like it,
it's kind of that darker morph animal,
might actually put more purple into the barney ball pipe
and maybe we'll get there.
I'm gonna try a bunch of different ways of going about it.
But this year we're definitely going to take this
first time male and breed them into cinnamons
and black pastels and hopefully infuse some of head
dark gene in it.
And hopefully get more of the purple look.
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I was so excited about this male last year.
This is actually a black pewter lesser cyprus
and he fathered about four clutches but oh
he's a feisty little monkey but unfortunately only had
one clutch that he was the actual father of.
'cause we dual fathered him other things.
The other males did all of the breeding.
The couple of babies that were from that clutch
that he fathered were ridiculous.
So this year we're gonna go ahead and give it another go.
Now I'll be honest with you.
Sometimes first year males can kind of be a little bit weak
but now that he's a second year breeder he should really
be able to crush it.
So we're gonna take them to this beautiful nice bumblebee
right here.
Be just a nice kind of contrast as far as the genetics go.
Then we've got a super pestle bongo.
That Bongo gene is really cool and in fact
there's a super pastel should, produce some really good
stuff and then we even have just a lemon blast vanilla.
So all of those genes mixed into that black pewter
lesser cyprus should make some really amazing offerings.
So I'm excited that this year he really can hopefully get
the job done.
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And guys, that is it.
We have now rearranged all of the ball pythons.
They're ready to go.
So basically there'll be a bunch of breeding
kind of tutorial, kind of things.
What I'm thinking, how I'm going about it.
Gonna feed these guys tomorrow and then breed them probably
the next day.
So two days from now the first males will go with females
and we'll start to hopefully see some copulations,
some blocks and then I'll talk you guys
through the whole process of follicular growth
and all that other stuff over the next month or two.
So it's going to be a fun ride.
Really excited about the breeding schemes this year.
Gonna be an amazing potential year.
Now let's hope that we have the type of production season
we have this year that we had last year 'cause last year
was a banger.
I'm super excited about it.
I hope that you guys enjoyed this journey
of how I get ready for the breeding season.
It's insane.
It was a lot of work, just in real time
to let you know that was about eight hours of actual work.
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