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How do I know for sure it's an Okeetee?

aone4u2luv it could be from an Okeetee line or locality, but without knowing it's background, coupled with it's appearance, I'd say yours is a nice "original", or "classic" corn snake :) And not every one will be thick banded, and saturated with orange and reds. These are locality specific Okes, tracing their lineage back to the Okeetee Hunt Club:
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one of their kids
 
Basically I wanted to use her for a little fun breeding with my amel male to see what I get :)

i love my cornsnakes :)
 
Just remember that breeding isn't all peaches and gravy.
 
Yeah I know I just wanted to get some little ones out of them just to try my hand at it I got bored with fish so need a new challenge lol I own 10 fish tanks lol

i love my cornsnakes :)
 
This is a pet peeve of mine. Okeetees can truly only be called an Okeetee if it came from the Hunt Club in Jasper county. I bred locality Okeetees that were directly from Okeetee hunt club animals and I could trace the lineage back to those original animals. I bred them specifically because they were true Okeetees.....Okeetees are NORMAL cornsnakes. Some had wider black borders....some didn't. Mine had variations in borders......Mine also had partial zig zag markings...the lines they came from ran to that. They also had a lot of melanin in the coloration....part of the wild type phenome. Clean, bright, huge black borders are not Okeetees...they are I guess Okeetee types or Lookatees as we called them.To call them an Okeetee is like trying to call sparkling wine Champagne...unless it came from Champagne France, it's not Champagne....This is what a true pure line Okeetee looks like:
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and another...note....not a lot of big borders on her, but she is in fact a true Okeetee Hunt club animal
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Chris: love seeing some true locality animals...I wish I'd kept at least one of my Okeetees....they were so huge and docile. I do educational talks and kept one of my normals for that but she is small compared to the locality animals that were near 5 ft and 800 grams. They would make a better educational snake. If I ever find another locality normal cornsnake I'm going to get one again. I'm not sure where all my adults are these days...some I do though...should check with them and see if they still want them or want to give them back....
 
Meg, I still have a few localities. No w/c that aren't old as dirt, but a few F2s and so forth.
 
Might have to get with you....When I head over to the hospital for lunch next week I'm going to see if one of the girls still there still has one of mine and if she'd want to give him back...otherwise, I'll have to check with you!
 
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