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Motleys

Merlinator

Merlinator

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I am new to cornsnakes and was wondering if someone could tell me everything there is to know about motleys <g>
How does one breed for them, does one need a motley to produce other motleys etc.
 
Beautiful photos you have :cheers:

You need motley parents, or parents carrying the recessive motley trait (het motley) to have motley offspring. The motley trait can be bred into any color corn, although not all colors have been done yet. The motley trait appears to have a hypo like effect & lightens the colors somewhat. Brightly colored amel motleys (lacking any white) are called Sunglows – pic of one on my avatar. Quite beautiful !!

The motley trait has a variable appearance & can be exhibited as pin-striped, q-tiped, zippers, hurricane. It can at times mimic the stripe trait, with the motley pattern appearing to be head to tail stripes - although experts can tell the difference between the true stripe & the mimic by the width of the pattern.

Motley & stripe pattern traits appear to reside at the same locus (location on a chromosome), with motley recessive to normal (wild type), and stripe recessive to motley. There was much conversation about that topic earlier this year, I’ll leave it at 1 sentence, lol

Photo of a Sunglow Motley attached - he has a typical dot - dash - dot motley pattern.
 

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:-offtopic One of these days we're going to have to talk falconry! I glanced at your site, and will take a much longer visit when I have more time.
 
One more fact about motleys: corns exhibiting either the stripe or motley pattern traits will lack belly checkers. Only 1 other trait is known to do the same thing - bloodred, which is a trait that diffuses the body pattern / color over time. High quality bloodred specimens become highly valued - solid colored adults.

So... if you breed 2 parents het for both motley & bloodred, you won't be able to positively identify the 6.25% of the clutch which should statistically be Bloodred AND Motley.... You will need to do breeding trials once the hatchlings reached adult size to prove them out.

Male = het Bloodred, het. Motley
Female = het Bloodred, het. Motley
Offspring predicted as:
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56.25% Normal(66% poss. het. Bloodred, 66% poss. het. Motley)
18.75% Bloodred (66% poss. het. Motley)
18.75% Motley (66% poss. het. Bloodred)
6.25% Bloodred, Motley
 
Hello :) Welcome to the site! How is everything going? :) I'm hoping to get some feeding done tonight and perhaps take some pictures of your new babies! If you'd like I can post them on here.

Any plans or thoughts on when you aim to have their new homes ready?

Well, I'll talk to you later on, you sure came to the right place to do your research. I think I have one more spare copy of Don Soderberg's book and you should DEFINITELY grab yourself a copy of Kathy Love's book. I know that the shop right near my house has some copies so if you want me to pick you up one, as I'm going there in the next day or two, I can!

Don't forget to check out the american cornsnake registry website as if you are planning on breeding I think it's definitely a good idea to register your snakes as who knows how far someone like you will go with breeding. Corn genetics are GREAT FUN to try and play with! Always something new to discover!

Oh some information on your babies they came from a member on here. Gallagher. You could probably ask him who the exact parents of your snakes were. He's SUPER friendly and helpfull. His website is here -

http://www.angelfire.com/ri2/dnasnakes/

Seeya later!
Rebecca

ps- Remeber I showed you that genetic calculator? In case you need the address here it is! Rember that when yours are het for Butter motley they actually have 3 hets - Amel, Caramel, and motley.

http://www.kornnatterlexikon.de/index.php?action=6
 
Hey Rebecca, I got all the stuff for the corns and hope to get over very soon. I tried to phone you on Sunday but got no answer.
Went to superpet in Richmond and met a girl named Tasha who says she knows you. She was super helpful.
Talk to you very soon.
 
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