Those are all mine, or were over the years. They are my favorites for some crazy reason...
I will be cursed by both sides of the aisle on this, but my intention is to line breed the patternless in something of an attempt to keep “pure” the “Means” or Goini or whatever (I believe the patternless trait is the only one that is not an intergrade) and also separately cross them with the Ghost Brooks to produce the whitest patternless. So on one hand I’m into maintaining and refining a line of so-called “pure”, and also producing a mutt to satisfy my urge to produce something new and a bit unique. See, sometimes you can do both. That’s the plan, anyway...
By the way, obviously the patternless trait is an oddity because it will occur from blotched adults along with blotched siblings and seems to be sex linked (or whatever the term) to occur mostly in males. I personally believe that is because the patternless is a relic of the pure type that basically no longer exists in the wild due to natural intergrades. It still pops up, so I believe there is enough there to refine and “save” (or perhaps recreate) the true Goini that I believe is basically extinct. I believe that when the type breeds true, with equal males and females, the recreation of the lost true patternless kingsnake will be at hand. I do believe you can selectively “breed out” the intergrade genes eventually. Boy, doesn’t this combine a bunch of thread topics all into one!
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