I BOUGHT My Best Friend NEW RARE Birds!

Today we're here on the west coast of Florida at Conker Ranch to surprise my best friend Louis with some brand new birds. But first we're gonna go check out the ranch because it's been about six years since the last time we've been here and I'm sure they have a ton of brand new things. So let's head to the back and let's go see some stuff. Some of you guys probably don't know but we travel all around the world with my best friend Louis and we go tour different facilities all over the world. But today we have a surprise for him and we're getting him some brand new rare birds. All right let's go around let's go see some new stuff. Yeah so this is our chicken coop we built this about a year ago. Our theme over here is wild west town so this is the jailhouse. Okay. You know we got a couple of wanted posters we'll be putting up here. That's funny. This is the door that they get stuck in. That's funny. So at night they get put away but they get some yard time in the day. It's a big coop so they all come inside and then there's free range everywhere. Think about seven years ago the last time I was here there was literally no trees. I think how many mango trees you guys plant on the property? Oh my gosh we just put in this row here this last year of all the Valencia pride there's probably about 10 or 12 there. And then we had another six or seven on the other side the piña colada the dreamsicle. Yeah. And then over here I've lost count there's got to be like. This place is just going to be filled with fruits and veggies. Yes crazy. Real cool cages. Lewis side iguanas. They're dug down about three feet in the ground and that's so that the animals can dig. They can make natural holes all in here and then come back out and just live how they're supposed to live in the wild. So it's all caged off no way for them and the whole nine yards. Real cool species of quail right here. They're in the back right now. Go check this out. It's called mountain quail. Rare species of quail. The males are the ones with the little bib with a little black on the top. The females look like they have it too but the males have a colorful nice bib. There's like 2.4 in here. Yeah. Looks like it. They're a neat little quail. Yeah looks fun. Pretty cool. Check it out. Bobwhite quail. Always wanted to breed these guys never really did it but might get into it one day. Check them out. We actually have a nice population of them at the other ranch with the high fence. They're doing pretty well but it'll be pretty cool to release some more. So one cool thing about Conquer Ranch is that if any of the animals leave the ranch they're going to get destroyed by panthers, coyotes, and humans. Here it's like a paradise. Everything stays here. There's ponds, there's water, there's food, and there's all kinds of really cool animals walking around. You guys remember we had the hybrid vulture guinea fowl? They're here. Magpie geese walking around. What else do you have running around here? Oh my gosh. We got a resident ringnecks. Muscovies obviously. We got a couple bobwhites still hanging out. So cool. And then the black valley whistling ducks. We still have a couple stragglers from this last season. We only got about a couple hundred right now. But there was over a thousand which is insane but they all just went out. Oh they're going about their way. Yeah yeah. They migrate off. All right let's head inside and go inside the incubator room. All right here we go. Oh yeah. So uh we just got our fresh emu egg uh the other day. There you go. We still got to go inside. We use this to grow out some of the intermediary birds that once they get too old for this. Okay. A bunch of silkies, quails, and common chicken. These are our first two of this season. Oh wow blonde emus. Yep. We for whatever reason only. I just put three eggs on my kitchen counter so I'm gonna have to call you guys for something. Oh my goodness. Can I hold that little thing? Absolutely. Normally uh this is their third day. So they. Little mini dinosaurs. These things are so freaking cool. Their feet are so soft and small but that is awesome right there. Yeah that's so awesome. So after three days they're ready to start eating. They got the coordination. Check this out. So look over here. Look at the egg. Yeah this is what they came out of. So freaking cool. Now they're not as big. You got more eggs over here? Oh yeah. We just got these the other day. Heck yeah. We're looking forward to hashing them out. Yeah I have an ostrich egg on the kitchen counter too that I haven't put in the incubator that I'm supposed to but. Are you guys hand turning them? Yeah. Wow. Every day. A couple times a day. So these are the rest of the uh emu in here. So you guys had the best success with having them just in these styrofoam containers? Yeah we've tried putting them in some of the bigger stuff. Yeah. It's this is just because we're hand turning them right now. It's just easier to handle this. Okay. The humidity that we need which is relatively low for hashing eggs. Yeah. It's a lot easier to maintain with these. That's why you see we have kind of like. We might be putting we might be putting them on my mom's kitchen counter and doing the same thing because it's AC room. Room temperature. Yeah. A lot better to control your temperature instead of a building that's super super hot. Yeah and these bigger ones they're great for common eggs. Yeah. But it's really hard to get the humidity lower than 50 percent on these. Yeah. And it's these got to be down to 25 percent 30 percent max. And how long are the emu eggs in there for? Uh so this is my reminder. About 56 days is incubation time. Okay. So we turn them quarter turns from uh zero to 30 and then after from 30 to 50 to finish it's half turns. Oh wow. We alternate every day. And the ostrich like 40 something days too. 40 something days. Yeah. They're they're about the same too. Um so it's a long haul. It's a lot of effort but as you can tell they're cute they're worth it. Yeah they definitely are. They love each other. Yeah. They're fantastic parents. They're getting ready to get back into uh egg laying season. Yeah. So she's doing her motherly duties. He's over there inspecting the nest where they'll lay the eggs. Yeah. Uh they are a tag team. They both raise the babies. They both sit on the eggs. Wow. And uh these are these four. And these guys we find them down by my house in Broward. Yeah they're everywhere around here. Um. And where are they native from? I think are. Indonesia? No. Yeah. One of the Asian. I think so. The big big guys. They walk on top of the lily pads with the big giant feet. It's real neat. African crown cranes. Yeah African crown cranes. He's a jerk. She's a doll. Yeah. That's how they mostly are. And then we got four of their babies in there. That water is absolutely insanely clear. Yes. It's uh we got the well going all the time. It's always circulating. Beautiful. And then we have a couple outcast shakalaka. Okay. Um so one got injured and it really won't be accepted back into the colony. Yeah. Um the common one that got out and was pushed out and then our choco. We had a pair of choco that laid bunches of eggs. Yeah. None of them were in the turtle. As soon as we sold it. Yeah. They left us one egg. And there. That's out. There it is. Beautiful right there. Yeah. Gorgeous. We're really hoping that he'd become either domesticated or kind of mix in. He's nice. So that's a different subspecies. Yeah. So if you can tell by their lower tail. The tails yeah. It has that. More of the red. Yeah. Red or purple. Compared to the whites. Where the commons have the whites. Yeah so I have the commons. The commons are real neat. We got one male lapwing here. We're hoping to get his female here in the next couple months. That one up there. The real scared one. Yeah. Uh that one is a Chinese purple sloth. Oh wow. Chinese one. Yeah one of the few in the in the country. We're hoping to get a good uh cross breeding. Yeah. To see what we can get. Or if we can get another female of the same. Yeah. We'd be happy to feed them out as well. Super thick in here too. So many different types of trees and bushes all through the aviaries. And it makes it that much better for shading, cooling. Especially during the summer times out here. Makes it perfect. And when they also produce fruit. The birds love that as well. Oh 100 percent. Free food. What are they called? Lady embers. Lady embers. Look at the males you guys. Absolutely stunning. Always the females are more a little uglier. So they hide their nest and take care of their young. But the males are really impressive. He's a trio of greater. He's a black fur sow. Male and female. Hard to tell the difference. Yeah definitely. I saw these in uh Brazil. He's real cool. He's a little aggressive. That's another species or the same species though? So this is the same. This is uh another set of great carousel. Yeah. And then we have a yellow knob in the corner. You'll see him in a little bit. Okay. Wow you guys have a lot of carousel. Yeah we're not saying that we're necessarily specializing in them. But we love them so much. And we have a great success. So we're looking to get some of the other varieties. Okay. Greater male. Yeah. See around his eye. A white? It's yellow. Oh wow okay. So that's not going away. A lot of times that kind of fades. But it's been sticking with this guy. So we're interested to see if we can breed him with one of the females that we have that has a lot of yellow in her beak. Yeah. See if we can maybe get a new subspecies or or a different hybrid or something different. That is yeah. The different subspecies of red golden. A lot stronger red. Yeah pop up real quick what a red golden pheasant looks like. Absolutely stunning. A lot of times our hens will hatch everything. Hatch their own eggs. So she's got 13 right now. She did a great job this year. Wow. Same different species underneath her. So she got two bantams. A couple of frizzles. Some commons and whatnot. And then these guys. Little parakeets. Yeah. What is this? This? So this is like a little dog food treat. Okay. High in protein. Yeah. It's a great treat. Chewy. Yeah. Birds love this stuff. Interesting. It's always nice. So I'm gonna just go in there. We're gonna go crazy. Yeah. All right you guys. Here we go. This is what happens when you hate on rear chakalakas. They just start coming. Just just like that. Yeah. They have no uh no uh boundaries. No none. Look at this. So we gotta get ours at the house like this. Ours are a little nervous. I should have hand raised mine. This would have been perfect. Yeah. This is uh chakalaka. How many chakalakas can you have on your body at one time? Here. Let's get the arms out a little more. Okay. I know. I know. We got four right now. That is pretty neat. There we go. We got five now. Chakalaka man. That's pretty funny. Hey Louis. You ever have this many chakalakas on your arms before? Maybe some chicas but. We ran out of food and that's like where's the next spot we're going to? Dude. Never ending. If you don't have this to go after. Yeah. Earlobes and your beard. That is hilarious. If I had any jewelry on maybe. That's it. That is so funny. This pheasant right here. Another animal that's absolutely crazy. We'll pop up a picture of them. The argus when they display. Super super neat birds. Beautiful display birds. Hopefully sometime this new year coming up I'm gonna make a humongous aviary just like this but in this style with the greenhouse poles. I think it'll be look really really neat. Cool framing style. Use the big utility poles just like how that is but make it a really really long run and then possibly have more turtles and tortoises on the bottom but that that u-shaped moon looking style is something that's been really catching my eye. Well he helped me with the first aviary with a big tent looking like a circus. Then the flat roof one. Now we're gonna go like this which would be real real neat. But they do like to be able to access 360 degrees. Okay so they like predators and all that. Yeah yeah and up and away so hopefully the rats don't get into uh this which they haven't been able to. Yeah. While we have it suspended and out of the way. That's something I need to do that for my chocolate lager. Yeah. What was that noise that whistling sound? What bird is that? Yeah. The firecracker? Yeah. That would be um that would be our yellow knob. Okay. This guy right up here. Oh wow. You see him hopping around? Yeah. I hope the camera picks that up but that is really neat. That's probably an alarm call scaring like nervous or just doing it? It's kind of a mating call I think. Look at him go. When they strut their stuff around and with their tail up. Yeah. That's a really pretty bird. Yeah. So the difference between this one and the greater is just the white tip on the tail. Oh wow. So they look like a greater. Yeah. So cool. Slightly different size but you gotta get that little white tip. Super super cool noise. He's really docile. Yeah. Like if he tries to peck at you he's just like eh. Yeah yeah. I'll go in there and I really have no fear of him because he'll just kind of hang out. Yeah. Not aggressive at all. Obviously you don't trust him. Yeah of course. And then that's the female. Yeah. We'll have to go around the other side. She hasn't gotten out of the corner yet. Big female that they have here. You have a name for her? Not yet. She's a lot bigger than mine for sure. The head and everything about her. Big girl. That's the definition of a mature female. My female's not doing that yet. Now that's gonna be crazy. I don't think you guys are gonna hear that right now but that is epic. You can feel the vibration. Oh it's just in their chest. So freaking cool. Rex is almost there. Yeah. Mine's Rex in blue. Okay. Their cask is half the size still. Yeah. Their waddles are still small. I want to say she's like six or seven right now. Mine are four years old. Okay. Yeah. She's already had a couple babies. They've already hatched them out but their uh the zoo that they were at just couldn't keep them anymore. Yeah. Check this out you guys. This pond is absolutely amazing. They have a well here that makes the water crystal clear at all times. The well here is like a couple thousand feet in the ground. This used to be an old old old fish farm way back in the day and Bill fixed this whole entire thing up and carved everything out to make it look into a natural pond and the original fish are still here. Some other fish. So a lot of tilapia and a lot of other different types of fish. Here he comes right now. We're gonna throw a bunch of food in there and you'll see they're just gonna go crazy. Look at that. Crazy stuff. Oh yeah. Look at that and this fish is probably so you can eat these fish no problem because it's not like anything's really running off into these ponds. If you really wanted to you probably eat these tilapia no problem. Yeah I've had some a couple weeks ago. They're delicious. Yeah I don't see why they would be. Compared to your side canals this is you know some good stuff. Yeah I know what they feed. Yeah exactly. You know you eat and what's going in the water. This tree right here. Here you can tell us a little bit about this tree. It'll be a monster one day. But yeah so this is the baobab tree. They call it the tree of life. A lot of the ingredients in women's skin care. The rejuvenating stuff comes from the sap of this. Oh wow. So you'll see these if you think of any kind of movie about Africa. Like say Lion King. You see those really big fat trees. They're huge. That's what this is. So it starts here and then about 50 years from now it'll be 50 feet wide. It's insane. You can for the next generation know that I'll be getting gone but they'll love it. That'd be awesome. Coexisting enclosure blue and gold and silky. And a loud macaw. This is one of the toughest hills I've ever climbed in the airport. Oh wow. That was wild thought. A whole freaking flock of ringtails over here. They don't leave? No. So we started with I want to say about two or three pairs. Yeah. And they've been spawning they're one of my favorite ducks. They've got out of that aviary that we built once or twice they fly around and somehow they get back in. Look at all the mulberry trees right here. There's fruit trees everywhere you look you guys. You got some new ray out here. Yeah these are four. You guys are real neat. My male just went into breeding season right now. Yeah. In the last two days he's starting to look at you real nice. Mouth wide open hissing at me. Yeah yeah yeah. Now that's cool. I wanted to get the black neck swans. Well I want to still get them. But the blacks are still freaking gorgeous. These guys would ever freaking lay eggs. Oh look there goes a ringtail down the other pond. It's so freaking cool. Look at him go. Yeah. Now this is really cool how every like I said earlier you guys at the beginning of the video. If these animals leave they just get destroyed. They know this is home. Nobody messes with them. Food and water everything's here. The guys are always feeding everything all the time. Everything's happy and doesn't nothing leaves. That'll be a bad. Oh crap another one. So many different types of trees out here too. Alrighty well it's time for Luis to get his birds. He's um. I can't believe this. He's been wanting his birds for a really really long time actually and we spoke about a long time. He was worried about getting the birds but I think he got it ready now. I think he's ready. I think he's more than ready. The species of bird is a helmeted carousel. It is a bird from Venezuela and Colombia. They're eating leaves fruits and a little bit of different types of insects. They're also a endangered species because of habitat loss from humans. So having these guys in captivity really helps to make this population of birds a lot bigger in captivity which is always a plus. Big strong like a turkey right? Yeah definitely. Especially the older they get and their talons are no joke. This should be the female. This should be the female. Let me see this. Yeah. And that's the male right there. Alright so we're looking at different knobs. They're all about the same ages here. Sometimes it's a little hard to tell but we're figuring it out right now. This one almost looks like another female. No. No but this one. No that knob is the smallest one in there. The knob is a little thing right on the head and it's also the helmet of these species of birds. Almost just like the cassowary. We probably, they probably don't even know. Nobody really knows what it's really meant to be but it's probably some type of male female kind of difference of them. Oh yeah. He's a big boy. You got him. Flop you in the freaking tent. Alright they're in. About two hours back home. Thank you man. Appreciate it. No problem. So we're loading the birds up inside of the dog kennel so we can bring them to Lewis's facility. We're not going to be able to be there because I have to go home and work at the ranch but Lewis is going to send us some clips. The birds were placed inside of their new enclosure. Obviously as you see it was dark out but we got a video of them the next day and they're doing really really well eating and drinking. Doing great at their new home. We're back home at the ranch. I hope you guys enjoyed today's video. Surprising Lewis with his brand new pair of birds. Make sure you subscribe. Put your post notifications on. I'll see you guys next one.