Baby Eastern Milksnakes Hatching! 

I know this was filmed before recent events, but I hope Ed recovers quickly and isn't in pain from his appendectomy! Loved the adorable babies, shame about that one but thank you for being so upfront and honest that breeding doesn't always go perfectly and for humanely helping that little guy pass! ❣️

Two things I really admire about Snake Discovery are that a) you're open, honest, and educational about what to do when things go wrong, such as here when a baby snake was just not compatible with life; and b) when something goes wrong, you always look into why it happened and report your findings, including any mistakes you may have made and how you're going to improve practices going forward. The personal and scientific integrity that shows is a big part of why I keep coming back to this channel. I'm sad for the poor kinked/fused baby, but take comfort in knowing that it went as peacefully and painlessly as was possible given the situation. Thank you, Emily and Ed, for always striving to make the best possible decisions for your animals' quality of life and death, and for helping others know how to do the same.

Oh, that poor baby. It's so sad... they was a fighter until the end. It's unfortunate how they had such a huge kink. The fused body is just adding salt to the wound. Rest in peace, Milksnake number 4.

4 years of watching snake discovery, and i just realized that Emily is giving c-sections to the eggs in case the baby snakes cant get out on their own!

I love how Chicken Wing realizes one of Emily’s fingers isn’t food, but she has to sample every other finger *just* in case one of them *is* actually food

I managed to get a baby Eastern Milksnake off a glue trap at work and brought it to the vet at our local wildlife center to get checked out before releasing it. He said they eat invertebrates until they get big enough for rodents.

i appreciate that you took such quick action to minimize the pain of the fused one instead of letting it harm itself, and that you stopped to figure out what went wrong incubating and how to improve it. that shows real care for both the snakes and proper education anout them.

I always appreciate that you guys don’t hide the sad and more “unpleasant” aspects of breeding. Breeding is amazing and fascinating, but it’s not all sunshine and rainbows so I’m glad you don’t try to pretend that it is

So glad you added that epilogue at the end - everything makes sense now! Hatching five days early, 2/5 healthy snakes, and the kinks!

It's so shocking how the baby with mold on it had such a mild kink to it, very able to survive and thrive and yet the egg that was perfectly fine (and one could argue the healthiest being separated from the moldy egg) had a deformity so extremely terrifying and sad. Imagine your belly and legs being fused but you're still somehow able to rip yourself open in your attempt to survive, that's so scary... Also yay!!! Im early!!!

Thank you for sharing the real ups and downs of snake breeding, and being so forthright about how animals that won’t survive are still cared for with dignity and grace. It’s a tough world out there for a noodle with a head. Feel better soon, Ed! ❤

18:47- I appreciate this ending bit, telling us what you found out. That was my first thought, if they're 5 days early, they cooked too fast! Really appreciate that you guys follow up on experiments, especially with that being the first time breeding that species, and learn from mistakes, which inevitably happen as we go thru life. Mistakes are gonna happen, all we can do is choose what we learn from them.

I think that mum wins the award for best attempt at eating one of the Snake Discovery lot 😂.

Just wanted to say I SO appreciate the honesty and transparency that you two put into these videos. It can be so tempting to shelter people from the realities of life and death, but it doesn’t help anything not to prepare ourselves for those situations as best we can and to deal with them in the kindest way possible to the animal. Sometimes euthanasia is a kindness, and it’s our responsibility as keepers to save the animal from suffering further when it’s plainly obvious they physically cannot survive. The more we can face reality, the better we can prepare to reduce harm as much as possible. Emily remained curious about the science behind why that snake developed the way it did, and that allowed her to learn and grow and become a better keeper.

Me, bleary-eyed and haven't drank my coffee yet: SNAKE BABIEEEESSS.

I about gasped when I saw that crazy kink! Poor bud 🥺

I'm just glad that you guys are still ethical and educate people about the proper way to end the pain for some little ones ❤😢 I also hope Ed gets a great recovery and healing process

it is upsetting that a couple of the babies didn't thrive, but i thank you for your transparency, and i commend you for doing what was right for these babies

Brown has always been my favorite color, I'll never complain about a beautiful "boring" brown snake! (My own snake is also a very good eater, and has attempted a couple of times to eat hands. One of my friends has affectionately said "He has one brain cell, and it's in the mouse he's digesting.")

Chickenwing at Emily's egg-fluid-covered-hands: "You are tasty snake babies."

"That'll make them really smelly, and hopefully tasty sounding to them." Never knew you could hear smells, maybe this was Emily's superpower before getting her nose fixed 🤣

I've never seen a snake fused to itself before. That's mental. Poor bubba though 😢

Ooh noo poor baby milksnake, he was such a fighter, rest in peace little buddy.

Hope Ed is still making a speedy recovery!

Its always so sad seeing the baby snake try so hard to live just for it to not be able to live. Rest in peace lil buddy

I hope Ed is feeling better! Appendectomies aren’t fun, but the recovery is a lot better now than it used to be (assuming it was laparoscopic). I hope you’re okay, too, Emily! Being the support-person in these situations can be incredibly stressful. Try to take some time for yourselves to rest and recover this week, y’all. 💜

Sometimes nature is unkind. You do your best for all the animals in your care. Part of which is accepting when it's time to let go, and doing so with as much care as possible. Which you do. Along with learning and growing to be the best you can be, and you are doing a wonderful job. May the lil guy be curled up in a nice den in snake heaven.

Wishing Eg a speedy recovery=)Thank you for always being open and honest about breeding. Thank you for humanely helping the little one to pass.

I feel like these guys should be called the Chocolate Milksnakes, because of the brown colour :).

the transparency you guys show in your line of work is truly incredible and exemplary. thank you for all that you do!

My excitement for Shark Week has been eclipsed by my extreme excitement for Snake Discovery baby season!!!

Timezones are complex, but i pray for Ed to have a smooth recovery, lots of support from the community.

Find it interesting from a biology/nature studies POV that it was the two eggs that needed to be cut where the babies had major kinks/passed away in the egg. Shame that you had to learn the hard way if it was the incubation temps being to high, but you know what they say, every day is a school day. Fingers crossed for next year🤞

Baby season yay!! Also that momma milk snake trying to eat you😂 she was really going for it

Oh my gosh guys, I needed your positive energy right this moment, and boom, here you are with a new video! I was just about to go diving through the channel archives, but a new baby season video is even better! Thank you, and best wishes - especially to Ed - to the whole SD family

SNAKE BABIES FINALLY HERE! I REPEAT SNAKE BABIES ARE FINALLY HERE!

Thank you for being open and honest about the ups and downs about the hatching process. I always appreciate your clarity and professionalism with the more difficult sides of snake breeding.

Woke up to babies, the last milk snake was so sad, but the restvof the babies were very pretty :3

More excited that you found out the reason as to what caused the early hatching and kinks. Hope all is going well with Ed and a speedy recovery ❤❤❤❤❤

i love these egg hatching videos! you’re the reason i’ve shown so much interest in snakes AND the reason they’re one of my favourite animals! im always looking forward to more :D

Emily: they are very good eaters Chicken wing: let me show you “bites Emily’s finger”

Awe, the poor kinked babies!!😢 Hope the temperature change helps that next year!

today, I learned that chocolate is a separate food group.

Baby season!!!! 🎉😊

I’ve had my eastern milk for around 3-4 years now, and she’s been an excellent pet for me. Beautiful coloration, excellent appetite (she’s tried to eat me several times, just like your’s) and wonderful demeanor. Eastern milks are incredibly underrated snakes, I really hope to see them in the pet trade more.

Get better soon Ed!!! Take it easy and don’t push yourself too far! Sending hugs!

Yay snake hatching season is starting!!!!!!! Nothing like waking up to hatching snake videos! Sorry that there were a few snakes with kinks.

Much respect for how y'all don't try to cover up your mistakes, and let us all share in your learning journey!

So unfortunate about the two that didn't make it, but at least the other three hatched out relatively healthy and in good shape (aside from the minor kinks)! I'd bet the higher than normal temp they were incubated at is the culprit of the problems, so fingers crossed that the survivors thrive under your care and that next years clutch has better success.

Poor babies, thank you for educating us! ❤

Chocolate is now a major food group. who would have known, not sugar/carbs, just chocolate.

Aww! Love the baby hatching vids. They look so cute when they peek out. They’re such pretty babies too 🥰🎉🐍

Speedy recovery Ed... you're adorable! I ❤ watching Emily baby talk the snakes! Babies... Babies... Babies... I ❤ it!!

Me, scrolling through RU-vid, gets a notification: YES THEY HAVE UPLOADED! And wait, BABIES HATCHING? 🎉 (Edit:Thanks for 32 likes!)

I used to watch this channel ALL THE TIME and it actually the reason snake are still my favorite animals to this day!❤

I love baby snakes or any snake in general! And that’s how I got mine! I named her Corn and she’s a normal ball python that I love lol-

Baby hatching time!! Also hope Ed is making a speedy recovery!

Love how nonchalant Emily is to being bitten by a milk snake. Just “oh it’s biting me” I’m guessing it doesn’t hurt much.

I heard about ed!!!! 😢hoping he feels better soon! ❤❤❤ snakes are adorable 🥰

Petition to bring back baby snake weighing portion of the video! They’re so so so tiny I found myself wondering how much they weighed and equivalent to what lol

Even tho I don't own a snake and only know a small bit about snake morphs and stuff I love when you guys post the hatching videos as I find them cool

Hmm, with the super kinked/fused baby coming from a “healthy” egg and the possibility of issues caused by the incubation temp, I suspect that the smallest baby was the one that hatched from the moldy egg, not the one with the minor kink! I’m also curious to know if the baby that died in the egg had any kinks/deformities, which could explain why it didn’t make it… If so, that would support my theory that the tiny baby is the moldy egg baby, since obviously the whole clutch was susceptible to developing issues regardless of the condition of the eggs. …Actually, I almost wonder if the moldy egg might’ve had an advantage?? If the issues were caused by a higher incubation temp, I wonder if it basically caused the babies to grow too quickly (especially because they started pipping way ahead of schedule) which led to things like the skin developing after the babies were big enough to be squished more tightly against themselves, hence the fusing… In which case, if the moldy egg’s growth was at all stunted, perhaps that sort of… kept it from growing too fast, like the others? I don’t know, I’m not a herpetologist! I don’t even know if that’s why a higher incubation temp is a problem, I’m just guessing!

Hopefully Ed feels better ❤ + this is SO crazy with the baby and its just interesting to see something like that

Just woke up, first thing I saw on my food was babies batching. Great day already

You know it’s gonna be a good day when snake discoveries post!!!! Why do we need an appendix when it just ruptures?! I was in the hospital a little bit ago and I thought it was my appendix but it was not!

Baby snakes are the cutest!!

I LOVE SNAKE HATCHINGS!! YALL ARE LEGIT MY FAV RU-vidRS AAAAAA

I know this is a nice coincidence, but this being uploaded while I’m going through a really tough time and also just after a medical procedure, is so nice ♡ Yay babies!! I love baby season so much.

I hope Ed is fine and not hurt, thanks for still filming the vid soo we can all see what’s happening there😘💖

I know this video was recorded before recent events, but I hope Ed is doing well. I love baby videos.❤ Thank you for being honest about the malformed baby.

Adorable! Milk Snakes are awesome. I recently found a Fox Snake in the wild that was maybe subadult and their pattern is similar, just with that Ratsnake head shape etc. I love any of the greyscale stuff! That said some Eastern Milksnakes are absolutely gorgeous, with more reds etc but yours should have more as they age than some eh? Congratulations on the awesome clutch!

Very cute babies. I appreciate you sharing the highs and lows of everything with us. ❤

Aw I feel bad for that fused baby, seeing him try and separate at least shows he’s a fighter. RIP

Hi I am new I been watching for 2 to 3 months know and I hated snakes but after watching ur videos I like snakes know thank u guys for letting me understand snakes are not bad animals and I am very sad about the baby the can't make it's😢😢😊😊❤❤

WHOS EXCITED FOR THE BABIES COMING? 👇

Poor babyyyyyyyy 4. 😢😢😢 May your soul have safe passage to the stars 💜💜

I haven't watched this channel in a while, I love seeing baby snakes hatch 🖤🖤

Snek wanted a snak.

I want to say thank you for including the things that go wrong, both randomly and admitting when you may have made a mistake that contributed! So many people come to you for information, and your dedication to telling the good *and* the bad is why. Sometimes in these sad moments I have to pause and come back when I'm prepared, but I'm glad you don't hide them.

In Rex’s tunnel, you guys should put all the fan mail of Rex

I love milk snakes!!!!

Thank you for showing the realities of breeding. It’s a good reminder that, despite our best efforts, things can go wrong and we must be prepared to deal with it.

I absolutely love how transparent Emily is. Many breeders wouldn’t admit that they made a mistake with incubating the babies at an abnormal temperature for this species, but snake discovery is totally transparent about their breeding practices. Good or bad. This is an amazing learning experience about a species that not many people have had the chance to breed. We as humans learn by others mistakes. This is an amazing learning experience thanks to Snake discovery’s transparency. Thank you Emily for always allowing your audience to learn along side you during your breeding experiences ❤. While researching Dekays brown snakes, your channel was the first that I came across that actually showed the tiny babies eating. My daughter and I purchased a dekays through a not so great breeder and she ended up giving birth (now I assume she was wild caught), and because if you, those little dekays had their best chance at life!

Get well soon, Ed. Love the babies and thanks for the wonderful, humane treatment you give to all your animals.

I like moldy. regardless of the kink. Fast recovery and good vibes for Ed I hope he is doing good.

I love spending my morning watching 🐍 snake discovery 🐍 and i feel bad for that one fused baby snake 🐍

For your first year breeding this species, 2 out of 5 healthy babies is pretty impressive. As you said, always more to learn and keep in mind for next breeding season. I hope our little kinky baby is able to thrive and go to a good home!

Happy to see the first hatching video this season! Oof on the kink/survival odds tho :( Thank you for being open and honest with your breeding. Maybe in nature, eastern milksnake mommas go deeper into caves for cooler incubation temps?

BABY VIDEOS FINALLY 🐍❤️

BABY SMELL IS BACK!!

Got the nudge and came running.

That was so sad. Thank you for not letting that poor baby hurt himself. Glad some of the babies still made it. Fingers crossed for better luck next year. ❤

Yay! love from Tasmania Australia 🇦🇺

YES. BEFORE ONE HOUR MARK. JUST FRICKIN' MADE IT!!!! LET'S GOOOO!

I don't have words I just want to hug Em and Ed. Hugs and love

Love seeing your RU-vid videos and June 11 is my wedding day

Chicken wing: is this a pinky? Emily: no that's a ring. C: how about this? E: no that's my thumb. C: this? E: wrong kind of pinky. C: now this has to be food. E: no you can't actually eat my finger! 💳 Rest in peace chocolate baby. You tried, but you wouldn't have lasted.😢

Happy new baby snakes

Thanks for sharing even the unpleasant parts. I had wondered about humane euthanasia of the deformed babies, but was kinda afraid to ask (or even Google it). I’m glad you have humane procedures for when it has to happen. This is a great, informative and entertaining channel! Hatching videos are my favorite.

Emily, I have witnessed them eating baby red belly and baby dekay snakes here in Vermont as hatchling's hope this info helps❤