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Head Pattern and Morph indentifiacation

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This may not hold water, but I think there is an uncanny connection between head pattern and morph identification. Common examples that are even identifiable in hets would be bloodred and sunkissed. Less reliable, but seen in mostly all of my Ultramels and others is what i refer to as the T-bone pattern. Now the Golden Corn is diplaying the broken arrow head pattern along with it's offspring. So I ask, how reliable is this relationship?
 
I found the post about the "Golden Corn" on KS.com. This girl and her offspring are quite striking. I see a few years of breeding trials down the road so he may be able to see what genetics are at play. Here is the link........
"Golden Corn"
Jay & PJ :cool:
 
tsthompson said:
A link would be helpful. :shrugs:
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kingsnake.com's corn forum, look for "golden corn" threads

The "golden" corn was a wildcaught found two years ago, pretty neat looking :)
 
The head pattern of many bloodreds (but not all) is definately distinctive, and all the Sunkissed I've seen seem to have their own unique head pattern, but other than that, I don't think you could use it as a morph indicator. Head pattern does seem top be inherited, but more in a "family looks" way, like how children look like their parents. But if you take the head patterns of the same morph, but of totally different family lines, you'll see a difference. The 2006 Cornsnake Morph Guide has a section dealing with head patterns.
 
diamondlil said:
I think this corn will always sit in my mind as 'the one I'd swap for my kids'! :grin01:
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LOL I have to agree with that one :D Actually, the only one, I love my DD mucho much :)
 
Menhir said:
Is this the F1 offspring? A little more information would be great.
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As far as i know the golden corn was introduced to her son but no breeding was witnessed so another WC (caught at the exact same place as the 'golden') was put in with her & bred, so the offspring could be from either...
 
Oops, forgot to say that Serp was doing a study recently involving the thicknesses of nose bands on stripes etc.... don't know how that panned out..
 
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