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Kisatchie Corn Snake Pics

price gouging?!?!?!

keith,
do you really think someone would do that just to make a few extra bucks? (incredulous look only partially masked by sarcasm) seriously though i think you are, unfortunately, probably right about that. what people will do for money does not surprise me any more. (not that this ranks up there with eating bugs on national television or going on a talk show with your girlfriend who is also your niece) what a strange, strange world..... :) ---jim
 
Jim/Keith,
I think we could easily have written okeetee and Kisatchie off as normals if we wanted to. I have seen so many variations of each it is silly. I'm sure some were given the name on visual appearance only and have very little actual genetic lineage. Quite disturbing I thought. I do own an okeetee--very dark saddles and almost peach collored background. Not really any intent on breeding at this time, but a beautiful snake none the less.

just a thought--I was up--couldn't sleep
 
I suppose the best scenerio would be a breeder attempting to enhance a Kisatchie looking snake with super dark saddles on a super pale background (finding a predictable genetic trait) and renaming it based on coloration or some other basis rather than geographic origins.

Anyway- its an interesting looking snake- I guess time will tell it there is interest enough for some breeder to dedicate time to explore it further.
 
Personally, after having heard all of the arguments ad nauseum, I am in favor of calling animals "okeetees" in the same manner that Kathy Love has expressed on her site.

If an animal has that "look" and traces its ancestry to animals from that specific region, it is an okeetee. If it simply has the "look" it is a beautiful "classic" corn, but is not an okeetee. The same would hold true, in my opinion, for an animal labled as "kisatchie."

In this way, people for whom that particular look and geographic origin are important can have their snakes with their lineages. For those who find it less important, they can get beautiful snakes for less $$$. I think it's a win-win situation.

Darin
 
kellum said:
Does anyone have any pictures of Kisatchie Corn Snakes? (other than the South Mountain image)

And are they really a guttataXemory? Rich? Serp? Clint? Pewter? or any other genetics gurus have an opinion?
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i got a male and a female ill post some pics
 
Yeah, but there is no reason not to bring up Kisatchie cornsnakes again. :)
KJ
 

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They are so beautiful. I'm getting my kistachie X coral snow baby next week. :D I do have everything ready. Her name is Leila, which means dark beauty.
 
Hey KJUN....post pictures of that "Silver Leaf" you have and the "dark eyed" Anery and freak them all out. Now that "Silver Leaf" is one very cool looking snake. ;)
Jay :cool:
 
By the way, much in those 2002 posts was downright wrong. It IS "Kisatchie," it has nothing to do with snakes, and it is not a cajun word. Here's the best explaination, and the cane almost definitely referenced Phragmites along the "high" banks of Kisatchie Bayou:

"The first inhabitants of Kisatchie country were Indians of the Caddo and Natchez groups; kisatchie is an Indian word meaning "long cane" and is probably Caddo Indian in origin."

Jay@PJCReptiles said:
Hey KJUN....post pictures of that "Silver Leaf" you have and the "dark eyed" Anery and freak them all out. Now that "Silver Leaf" is one very cool looking snake. ;)
Jay :cool:
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Now, why would anyone ever want to look at images of these guys?????

Alicia said:
http://www.kingsnake.com/louisiana/corn_snake_natchitoches.htm
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Too bad that red seemed to fade to a more typical brown as he aged. When Mike M. first collected that guy, he was phenomenal. Even though he was an adult, he looked like a normal hatchling cornsnake after no more than 2 sheds. Amazing, but by time he died, he was a typically colored Kisatchie. I couldn't have picked him out of a group of "normals" to save my life. Too bad. Mike had collected him about 30 seconds before collecting another male 150 feet away. The other male was typical Kisatchie looking.

Still, that look was NOT typical for Kisatchies, so I hope nobody buys want wanting them to look that way. I've never been able to repeat it (once I acquired the animal from DC). Again, too bad..... Even the silly Kisatchie hybrids I've seen don't turn out looking like this.

Devilscat said:
They are so beautiful. I'm getting my kistachie X coral snow baby next week. :D I do have everything ready. Her name is Leila, which means dark beauty.
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Hey, hey, hey. Kisatchies only. No hibirds. :poke:

KJ
 

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