okeetee or normeetee!!

[SHAKSNAKE]

i've searched and seen a couple threads about okeetee's vs normals. i see sometimes normals can look like okeetees at first and end up looking normal. i even saw somthing about an okeetee losing all of its black boarders during shed! I've gotten a bit confused at this point. i purchased from greasycreek earlier this month.

i want to show you a pic of my 5 month
abbots x locality okeetee. you let me know what first comes to mind!!







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[ShenziSixaxis]

I see okeetee colors, but I am not sure about the borders... Some are thick, but my normal also has a few saddles with thick borders. I think okeetee for now.

 

[Bartholomew]

I also vote for the okeetee. Not all okeetees have thoes huge thick borders. Some of them are pretty thin, but they are just enough to categorize them as an okeetee.

 

[wstphal]

Okeetee. Maybe not top-of-the-line Okeetee, but an Okeetee. Nice and bright, black may not be thick but is distinctly black. And lovely aberrant markings! Pretty baby!

 

[Tavia]

I also vote for the okeetee. Not all okeetees have thoes huge thick borders. Some of them are pretty thin, but they are just enough to categorize them as an okeetee.

In fact the WC Okeetee's don't really have those wide, wide black borders either. 20 to 30 years of being selectively bred has produced those borders most people expect to see in an Okeetee now. If his is an Abbott's X locality Okeetee, the locality Okeetee probably wasn't from a line that had been worked with a lot & probably didn't have wide borders like the Abbott's, so the offspring probably wouldn't have as wide of borders as the Abbott's parent either.

 

[MegF.]

Folks, Okeetees are normals...they are from the Okeetee Hunt Club in Jasper county, SC. If the animal in question didn't come from there (or have direct lines-Abbotts are not locality animals)then it's NOT an Okeetee. Only animals with direct lineage from there can be an Okeetee and not all Okeetees have large black borders. Only one of my 3 locality animals had the classic black Okeetee borders but they were still Okeetees. Your animal is an Okeetee type animal (Looketees we call them). Selective breeding didn't get the wide borders, collecting only wide bordered animals did. While they were bred together to keep that look, it occured naturally. Doesn't change the fact that an Okeetee can only be an Okeetee if the lines trace directly to that local. Kind of like Champagne...it can only be champagne if it's from Champagne France, otherwise it's just a sparkling wine.

 

[Tavia]

Folks, Okeetees are normals...they are from the Okeetee Hunt Club in Jasper county, SC. If the animal in question didn't come from there (or have direct lines-Abbotts are not locality animals)then it's NOT an Okeetee. Only animals with direct lineage from there can be an Okeetee and not all Okeetees have large black borders. Only one of my 3 locality animals had the classic black Okeetee borders but they were still Okeetees. Your animal is an Okeetee type animal (Looketees we call them). Selective breeding didn't get the wide borders, collecting only wide bordered animals did. While they were bred together to keep that look, it occured naturally. Doesn't change the fact that an Okeetee can only be an Okeetee if the lines trace directly to that local. Kind of like Champagne...it can only be champagne if it's from Champagne France, otherwise it's just a sparkling wine.

I was under the impression that Abbott's line was originally collected from the Okeetee Hunt Club & did count as an actual Okeetee. That's not correct?

 

[MegF.]

Abbott's started out from Okeetees but they were outcrossed with hypos and other lines to bring out brighter colors so they are no longer pure line Okeetees. Not sure how far back the lines were outcrossed. They certainly aren't linebred animals any longer.