How can you tell if it's an Okeetee?

jay76 · 03-20-03, 05:55 PM

There's a corn in my lps that's supposedly an Okeetee... but how can you tell? Just by the really defined black borders on the blotches?

BoidKeeper · 03-20-03, 06:34 PM

All I can say is go to big dealers sites and check out their Okeetees. After you see a lot, and I do mean a lot of then go back and look at it again and decide for your self. Personally I think that if it is an Okeetee it's the most drab looking Okeetee I've ever seen.
Cheers,
Trevor

SnowSnake · 03-20-03, 07:05 PM

Okeetees usually have a bigger line that defines the saddles.

bRoOK|yN · 03-20-03, 10:51 PM

err.. den how 2 check out a candy cane?

SnowSnake · 03-21-03, 03:54 PM

candy cane is an amelanistic corn that has a great red/white contrast with practically no yellow or orange.

snakemann87 · 03-21-03, 03:56 PM

hey, just watch out for them. It was my fault, but I was told my old corn was a candy cane, but it was actually an amelanistic.

crimsonking · 03-21-03, 04:18 PM

Okeetee : locality vs. "phase" ?? Okeetee corns as we know them today have deep orange ground color w/ dark red-brown saddles that are bordered by thick black. But as said before, not ALL cornsnakes from Jasper Co. S.C. look as spectacular as we'd like. Some are dull too. If someone is selling a snake as an Okeetee, then we ASSUME (unless he says it's a locality animal from there) it should look like the brightly colored ones. I'd say a big % of all the ones being sold as Okeetee, have no S.C. blood at all. It could very well be from locality parents, but I doubt it. Where is the pic?

Herp guy · 03-21-03, 04:39 PM

I guess you should try www.cornsnakemorphs.com , they have many morphs and you could check out the pictures.

Ryan · 03-21-03, 06:51 PM

Go to www.corn-utopia.com, Kathy Love has the nicest Okeetee corns around.

jay76 · 03-23-03, 07:30 PM

So unless it's confirmed from the breeder that the parents are true Okeetees, there's no way to tell that it's not just a bright normal?

Nicky · 03-24-03, 12:09 PM

ya but the parents of your corn might not be what your corn is 2 normal parent corns depending on the geans could have many different phases of babies but usaually they have larger bolder borders and brighter colors evern thoe it can be confusing because my normal phase corn kinda looks like an oketee so its hard to tell.