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Banded Okeetee

JFDery

JFDery

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Hi, anybody else working on a similar project? For me, the banded trait has been passing on to the progeny fairly consistently, but I seem to only get the black borders on the females. I know this is mostly selection, but if someone is on a similar project I'd like to hear about it.

Here's two of my females that are representative of the variation of the trait in my clutches. 100% of the outcome falls in that variation. The males look the same, but not as much black bordering.

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Banded Projects

I am woring on a banded, banded anery, banded abbott's, banded locality okeetee and banded hypo Miami project currently but will not be breeding until next year. All my animals were from the 07 season and won't be ready until then.

If you are looking for less black boarders, then I would try using a typical corn snake (wc type) since they have reduced borders or I would use a hypo, then you get the ground and blotch coloration only, but unfortunately the hypo seems to fade the okeetee coloration somewhat in my opinion.
 
No, I'm not looking to reduce the black borders, I'd like to enhance it. I would love to see your banded Abbott's line...

These are the first anery to come out of my banded project:

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Btw, I do know that Don Soderberg at SMR is going to be producing some Banded Abbott's Okeetees this year. I know cause I saw a photo of one in his book and I asked him about it recently. I'd LOVE to have one but not only do I have no place to put another snake but hubby told me absolutely, positively no more critters. :(

Not like I have a lot, I have one snake, one dog, two cats, and one bunny.
 
I do not have the pics here at work of the banded Abbotts Okeetee, it is a group project with a friend. I have the male that will be used and he has the female. She is from South Mountain line of banded Abbotts Okeetee. Very striking animals. If the link works, here is a sibling to the female. Just in case, here is the link.

http://www.cornsnakes.net/photogall...ate&framewidth=1266&frameheight=36&res=&wOpt=

One thing about banded corns, I posted a pic of my male banded a while back and received a number of responses stating they could see a little banding, but it wasn't a really good banded and then they reference Don's banded animals. In talking with Don at SM, he stated that the pics he has up are the extreme for bandeds that typically most banded corns do not have connecting lateral and dorsal blotches. He also said that it doesn't act as a simple recessive trait, many times you only get a few decent banded babies out of a clutch, so it is really just a selectively bred trait that takes a good eye and alot of time to really get what you are after.

I have attached (if it works) a pic of a wc "banded" okeetee from Jasper Co. This girl will be the basis of the locality banded okeetee. This is also a joint project with a friend, his female and my male.
 

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Nice specimen there.

Thanks for the insight on that. Someday I would like to get a nice Banded Abbott's Okeetee. Maybe by the time I can come up with the room AND talk hubby into it, maybe you guys will have had some good success with breeding them so I can get me a really nice one. :D

Best of luck to ya! I'd love to see pics of the babies once you breed them! Also, if you have any pics of the parents I'd definitely be interested in seeing them as well. Put it this way, I'm very interested in this particular breeding project. I sure wouldn't mind updates and pics. :)
 
I'd just like to think that I am a future Banded Abbott's Okeetee owner. :D So I'd like to stay in the know as far as who's breeding them and what kind of success they are having.
 
Maybe I should have specified that I am talking of banded motleys. What I consider the banded trait on these is the dorsal saddles going far down the sides (and yes, saddles with as little connection as possible). My project originated from motley okeetee that showed this character. Now, I may even actually try to enhance the connected saddles character as long as they go down as far as possible. I guess from here, the project should change name for me, since they won't be banded so much anymore. But as I said, the project hatched from banded motleys with okeetee type color, they all have patternless white bellies. Mine are not locality specific.
 
Camby said:
I do not have the pics here at work of the banded Abbotts Okeetee, it is a group project with a friend. I have the male that will be used and he has the female. She is from South Mountain line of banded Abbotts Okeetee. Very striking animals. If the link works, here is a sibling to the female. Just in case, here is the link.

http://www.cornsnakes.net/photogall...ate&framewidth=1266&frameheight=36&res=&wOpt=

One thing about banded corns, I posted a pic of my male banded a while back and received a number of responses stating they could see a little banding, but it wasn't a really good banded and then they reference Don's banded animals. In talking with Don at SM, he stated that the pics he has up are the extreme for bandeds that typically most banded corns do not have connecting lateral and dorsal blotches. He also said that it doesn't act as a simple recessive trait, many times you only get a few decent banded babies out of a clutch, so it is really just a selectively bred trait that takes a good eye and alot of time to really get what you are after.

I have attached (if it works) a pic of a wc "banded" okeetee from Jasper Co. This girl will be the basis of the locality banded okeetee. This is also a joint project with a friend, his female and my male.
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I was wondering where in Jasper Co. you found that girl?

Chris
 
JFDery said:
Maybe I should have specified that I am talking of banded motleys. What I consider the banded trait on these is the dorsal saddles going far down the sides (and yes, saddles with as little connection as possible). My project originated from motley okeetee that showed this character. Now, I may even actually try to enhance the connected saddles character as long as they go down as far as possible. I guess from here, the project should change name for me, since they won't be banded so much anymore. But as I said, the project hatched from banded motleys with okeetee type color, they all have patternless white bellies. Mine are not locality specific.
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I have a female banded Okeetee motley available right now, if you're interested in another female for your project.
 

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Thanks, that's a very nice animal. I don't think I'll adding any animals to that project this year, but it was nice of you to offer.
 
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