  2001 was the first season that we produced these hybrids and
believe we are the first in the UK to do so.
We produced two distinct phases by using a female Snow Corn and a Buttercorn
female to a heterozygous Albino Ruthvens Male.
When these first started poking out of there eggs , I couldn't believe my eyes.
I have used words like unusual, stunning, and amazing on some of my snakes, these
snakes are all of that and some.
have much deeper
red/orange saddles or red/orange/yellow bands and a orange/yellow background.
These are heterozygous for Anerythristic
 
are
shades of rich browns and reds on a cream/straw
coloured background. Ours are double heterozygous
so will produce, normals, anerythristic, amelanistic & snows
when bred back to one another.
These are hardy, placid snakes. They feed readily on pinkies and can reach breeding
size at 18 months
The
Tri_Coloured Junglecorn above top, is 3/4 Ruthvens
Kingsnake & 1/4 Cornsnake, it is also heterozygous
for Amelanistic & Motley, this snakes genetic
makeup is responsible for the development of
th line we are now producng.
The project started a few years
back when we bred an Amelanistic Motley Cornsnake to a heterozygous
for
Albino
Ruthvens Kingsnake. The Tri-Coloured Junglecorn at the bottom
of the page is the first generation from this cross.
 
We
have since taken this project further by breeding this snake
back to an heterozygous for Albino Ruthvens, which has made
our off springs genetic makeup more Ruthvens than Cornsnake.
Further breedings have resulted in us producing the Albino Motley Tri-Coloured
Junglecorn.
  Albino
Motley Tri-Coloured Junglecorns have a wonderful aberrant pattern
that fuses all the bands
along the back of the snake
into a pattern that looks like crimson paint has been poured
along the length
of the snake and is dripping down the sides. Evidence of
the yellow bands can be seen if there is a break in the Motley
pattern, and down the sides. The background is translucent
pink in the hatchlings, turning an opaque white as the snake
grows.
We hatched a few of these Motleys this season which
we are growing up for future breeding stock, they readily took
pinkies
after there neonate slough and have
continued to feed readily, we anticipate that we should have surplus in 2004.
They really are a unique snake
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