What the heck!! Chocolate Kenyans anyone?

[Stockwell]

These babies are only a couple hours old.
This is my 3rd litter of my high orange "nuclear" line for 03.(two litters in last 24 hrs)
Some of you might recall this is the line I have been working on since
1986 and they generally are born light orange and end up a bright tangerine after several
months.
BUUTT...
I got 3 weird chocolate brown ones in this litter(1.2)....this has never happened before
They don't have a hint of orange on them and even the eyes are brown....
I'm not sure if this is a new mutation, or whether they're just
het for ugly! LOL
guess I'll have to grow them up and find out...
I was hoping that after all these years of line breeding something neat would pop up.
An albino or anery would have been nice, but what the heck are these, chocolate Kenyans? Rather than having excessive orange/red pigment, they seem to be missing it all.
This is what keeps it interesting year after year.
http://www.ssnakess.com/photopost/data/508/1801brown2.jpg

Here's how the best orange ones turn out after several months
It will be interesting to see how those brown ones look in 6 months.
http://www.ssnakess.com/photopost/data/508/1801dscn0555-med.jpg

[enso]

Some vivid worms you have there Roy. Man they are bright. Nice!

[Zoe]

NICE!!

And yeah, they are ugly, but they'll sell! Hell, look at albino BPs! ;)

**no offense to the BP people :D

Zoe

[CDN-Cresties]

Awesome snakes, keep us posted on those chocolate ones.

-Steve-

[Burm41]

AWSOME!!

The brown ones dont look too too bad.

keep us posted on the wierd ones.

[Zoe]

Maybe they are axanthics... orange - yellow = brown, right?

Zoe

[Jeff_Favelle]

Hypoerythristic?

[Simon]

those are really nice looking and quite neat~
even thought I am not really into the kenyans they are lovely looking bunch there~
hope that there is gonig to the new Stockwell line Kenyan for you!

[Weather1]

I like the Brown / Chocolate ones better then the bright orange.

[RepTylE]

Nahhhhh the nukes are eyepopping once the orange intensifies but the chocolate do look kinda interesting to me. It will be interesting to see wht develops with then. Hope you keep us posted :)

[BoidKeeper]

Well all I can say is put me down for two for next year. Of course you knew I'd say that.
All jokes a side this is very exciting! Must be nice to have something new pop up like that.
Congrats,
Trevor

[snakehunter]

how much do you want for a choc. female? those are beast

[Hatched Exotics]

I like those chocolate ones..

Maybe in a couple years I'll get one from you if you end up producing more to sell :)

Congrats Roy.. something new :)

[B-Rep]

Great job Stockwell...What an awesome looking morph!

[lilyskip]

awesome looking snakes, of course. I'm interested to know how the brown ones turn out...i"m sure I don't need to remind you to keep us posted :D

[Stockwell]

Thanks for the encouragement everyone... I'll be sure to keep you all posted... It seems I've got a few American's attention with these already as I also posted them on KS... been offered a trade for paradox flame albinos , but I think I need to keep these.
Here's another picture comparing the chocolate to it's sibling after I washed some of the dried birth residue off them.
I'm already looking forward to them shedding in a week, just to see how the color changes...
http://www.ssnakess.com/photopost/data/508/18011590chocolatekenyans_Oct9_03-med.jpg

[Simon]

Really those are great looking. The more I look at the the better they look.
I really should come and visit you someday and see your whole collection~
what lovely looks they got.

Remember to keep us posted on these~ they're great looking!!!

[Invictus]

Ok, I absolutely MUST have those!!!!! I don't care what anyone says, I think they are beautiful.

[BoidKeeper]

but I think I need to keep these.
Roy you can't let thoes go at any price until you work with them. Of course you know this. But if ever you do, just drope me a line!
Cheers,
Trevor

[Linds]

LOL... when I first looked at them all that came to mind was that you produced "Poo Poo Kenyans" :p They actually look kinda neat in that last pic. Definitely going to be interesting to see what happens to them as they mature. LOL never know what to expect with these scaly kids!

[Stockwell]

How bout...
"Cocoa Kenyans" yeah that has a nice ring to it.
Beats the crap out o' poo poo....no pun intended:p

[Stockwell]

Trev, rest easy
It has never been about the money...It's about the animals and the thrill of creation, and the excitement of working with wildlife.(messin with)
I was offered a grand US for these ugly buggers today, go figure... LOL
They're going nowhere... but my incubators

[skin78]

please tell me that anybody here knows someone in europe that breeds those high orange kenyans.. I have 3 kenyans allready but the more brown then orange ones. I would really love a female high orange.


please can someone help me?? I am from Holland

Cheers Niek

[TheRedDragon]

Those chocolate Kenyans are AWESOME!!! I'd take a few. :) And those electric orange ones are CRAZY! :)

[Katt]

Hey, just noticed this thread! Those kenyans are neat. Beige Kenyans!

I'll agree with everyone about those "nuclear" ones. They are nice. My female is intense dark orange, with a ton of speckling, but the male (which Roy convinced me to get) turned out awesome!!!

[ReptiZone]

Plz keep them in Canada As long as you can Roy It is nice to know that some one from Canada is atracting US attention LOL
Congrats on your find and keep up the excelant work I found out where I will be giting my kenyas next year how much do thows nuclear Kenyas go for 1.2 I need to start saving for future stock.

[Corey Woods]

Congrats Roy!!

Corey

[snakegal12345]

nice sand boas

[althena]

Yeah, I'm kind of fond of the funny chocolate ones too. :)