Sunkissed?

[ocboat]

I contacted Kathy Love early last year asking if she would have any female Sunkissed adults that she would be willing to part with. She did have one and reserved it for me to be shipped after she laid her eggs. Several months go by and as it is was approaching shipping time she let me know that it just occurred to her that she had never bred this girl to a male sunkissed so she couldn't be 100% sure it was a sunkissed. She also threw in a younger female that was 100% sunkissed for free just to be sure I got what I wanted. Talk about great customer service.

I thought that I would share a couple of pictures of her to get your opinions on if you think she is a sunkissed or normal. I plan on breeding her to a sunkissed if I can find a suitable male. Thanks for looking.

 

[Roy Munson]

She sure looks sunkissed to me. Funky head pattern, reduced and oddly colored saddle borders, "anti-motley" look to the saddle shapes...

Of course, there's still some question as to the exact nature of sunkissed. Some, including me, believe that it is variably codominant with normal at the sunkissed locus, and thus it can be variably expressed in hets. This would be analogous to the situation with the diffused gene.

She's very pretty.

 

[kathylove]

She looks even more sunkissed in the photo than I remember her. Most of the time it is pretty easy to tell them apart. But there were a few cases that they looked similar to the normal okeetees, and I had to prove them out through breeding.

Hope she does great for you!

 

[ocboat]

Thanks Dean and Kathy. I'm still deciding on who to breed her with this year, a lavender or a Hypo A. I'm pretty sure I've seen pictures posted by Rich Z of babies homo for both crosses and both of them were very cool looking snakes. I'm not sure if there are any pictures of older snakes though. Anyway, either of these breedings would take several years to produce the snakes homo for both but might be a fun project.