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okee or not okee that is the question

MADMAN

MADMAN

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hi folks i am learning more and more about this het hype stuff that i started to question my snakes

i took more pics of my okee's which is what i bought them as .

now the second okee the darker one doesn't have a black outline around his/her saddles while the more orange coloured one has well pronounced black edging .

are these both okees or not

the brighter one is cuddles and the darker one is books (the o's are pronounced like the o's in zoo ) these guys constrict and kill there food from day one BTW

these guys are siblings of the same clutch they are 6 months old


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It's a little early to tell. My Okeetees didn't show their true colors until they reached about a year or two. If you purchased from a reputable breeder, then I wouldn't worry!
 
They look like okeetee's

They look like they have the nice black borders and orangish red, but I am not an okeetee expert, but I think they look like okeetee, they are very nice. Here is my Okeetee, but she is an adult and was the best of her siblings.
 

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Okeetee's are a locality, not really a color, although people identify the bright saddles with bold black borders as an Okeetee type coloration. If you were sold your snakes as locality Okeetee's, they won't necessarily have the big black borders. They are still a normal corn after all. If you were sold Okeetee type snakes, then they should have the thicker borders. I have 3 pure locality Okeetees and their borders are becoming more pronounced as they get larger.
 
they were labeled as okeetee's

the man who i bought them from is popular in north america, he has a HUGE collection of snakes lizards and all types of anphibs. he also knows alice cooper he supplies alice with snakes for his shows his name is paul ....something or other , his last name escapes me at the moment.
 
Hmmm, that doesn't give you much to go on. It doesn't tell you which they are. And Bonzor, Okeetee's are normals, they're just from certain area. They may have certain characteristics like thick borders and bright red saddles, but you could get that in normals anywhere. One of the snakes I have is an Okeetee/amel cross. She has thin borders even though she's out of a pure locality Okeetee. Okeetees are kind of like Champagne. You can't call it champagne unless it's from Champagne France. Everything else has to be called a sparkling wine.
 
well another thing i can tell you is that these okee's are bred here in hamilton ontario paul breeds them himself onsite at the reptile store, quite a set up he has there i don't know where the originals came from but i know he breeds them himself here

i have a show set up for my sons birthday on march 12 at pauls reptile store man he has it all, all kinds of burmese pythons some for sale, most not. He also has a 15 foot anaconda that he likes to lay across the guests lap for pictures, really cool.

i'll post pics of the birthday show when i get them
 
i came back from there and asked him a tonnes of questions heck,he might even register here he's not breeding corns rather ball pythons, they are cute. hehe

the anaconda is a green anaconda and man she is big!! nice spots on her


as for my corns they are originally from the okee swamp in fla. which is where okeetee's get they're name from the okees from miami i guess are what as know as miami phase beats me .

i am reading the book by love which you all talk a lot about i had the book the whole timewhen i bought the snakes originally it came with the starter set

BTW i bought a fuzzy for both of them and this is cuddles killing his/her prey just 5 mins ago

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John Albrecht said:
I'm so tempted to comment. Maybe one of my friends can duct tape my mouth shut....
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Wink, Wink John :rolleyes:

Just because I choose to call a Chevy a Ford, doesn't make it a Ford......

IMO, those are normal corn snakes. I have more than 2 dozen known Okeetees in my collection and they just look different. My avatar is a yearling Okeetee with no photo alteration. Does that look like yours??
 

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No, the Okeetee Hunt Club in South Carolina. That is the original location that the Okeetee corn snake was found and described by Kaufield
 
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