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Butter Okeetee??

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windowswisher

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Saw a picture on Ian's Vivarium, which I've attached. Does this actually exist in any of your collections? Such a pretty thing. Would it simply consist of a butter crossed to an Okeetee?

Thanks for all your kind information. :)

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When someone puts the label of "Okeetee" on a corn snake, it brings to mind a phenotype consisting of wide saddle borders and a rich coloration in both the saddles and the ground color.

Originally, the term "Okeetee" was reserved for those normal snakes, or their direct descendants, from the locality around the Okeetee Hunt Club. They were prized because of their natural good looks Then breeders were selectively breeding snakes for that look, which was known as "Okeetee-phase", but soon, everything with that look, no matter the locality, was being called "Okeetee", then the look was refined leading to the Abbott's Okeetee. The amel version became the Reverse Okeetee, showing wide white borders on a rich orange ground color, but even in those, the ground color soon didn't matter and all the snake needed was a wide border. And now any corn snake morph with a wide border is getting the label of "Okeetee". I love the look, but I really wish they would go back to the original standard of having to have a rich ground color as well as using the term "Okeetee-phase" so that the few actual locality animals can have the honor of being called by their true original name...Okeetee.
 
Bayou Reptiles, South Mountain Reptiles & Walter Smith all produced them last year (and maybe years prior). From what I understand they are a selectively bred butter corn...... Check with the above named breeders for detailed information/history fo the bloodline
 
I agree with Susan, and as well wish that animals which don't have any locality and/or no selective breeding with larger borders were called "Okeetee Phase". I wouldn't even label that snake as an "Okeetee Phase" because I don't think its borders are large enough.

I think that's the main problem with labeling any and everything an Okeetee. If it doesn't come from a selectively bred line or locality the only thing that defines it as an "Okeetee" is someone's opinion. In the breeders opinion that might be a "Butter Okeetee". In my opinion it is not.
 
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