Okeetee Cornsnakes

"On the Okeetee, Cornsnakes are the most numerous snakes and they grow up greater in size and greater beauty than any I have known from elsewhere...the prettiest have a rich orange ground color with vermilion blotches. In my estimation the Cornsnake is not only the most beautiful nonpoisonous snake in the United States, but in the world as a whole."
Snakes and Snake Hunting
--Carl Kaffeld
The late, great Carl Kaffeld said it best concerning these animals. He is the person most responsible for raising awareness about this locality of Cornsnake. My Okeetees are true locality snakes that actually have origins to Jasper Co., S.C. not just some pretty red-orange Cornsnakes, and my stock they has not been "polluted'" by any other outside genes. My original breeders were offspring from wild-caught Cornsnakes that were captured in and around the old Okeetee Plantation by two different sets of friends. I was able to obtain several offspring from these animals, and the ones that grew up to be the most attractive founded my breeding colony. This all began some 20 years ago.

This an old photo of one of my original F1 breeders that was born in 1987 from those wild caught Okeetees. This animal died in the summer of 2006 and she produced around 400 offspring in her life. This animal had those classic thick black borders around the blotches and never developed the dark longitudinal lines that many Okeetees do.
This is a F2 animal that has the look typical of many of the nicer Okeetees you may find in the wild. This snake has the nice black borders, and with maturity this snake has developed a hint of those dark longitudinal stripes, as many of the real Okeetees do.
This is a F3 animal that is an example of some of the variations you see with this locality. Not all Okeetees have the heavy black borders, some such as this specimen almost have a hypo look to them and have reduced black borders but they seem to have more intense orange-red hues. Whatever look you prefer, this line of Okeetees will give you a representation of what a colorful, wild-type Okeetee is... since these guys are strictly locality specific animals.