LEXCORN

The enthusiasm for the Pied-Sided Bloodred corn cultivar has increased over recent years.

The lack of pigmentation along the laterals (i.e. white scales) is an attractive, but, rarely produced event.

Therefore, the animals who present with this rare mutation command a high price.

There are several breeders working with this, considered recessive, gene at this present time & animals are born with varying degrees of affected white scalation & are, thus, determined as:

Low white / medium white / high white.

The following animal is our own Pewter male, imported in 1997 & more than likely the 1st animal to present with this phenomena in the U.K.

He is what I would consider to be a 'Low white' example as the area of lateral scales does not extend greatly up his body, however, the regularity of the lack of pigmentation is profuse.

Introducing Orion: these photographs are taken whilst in slough as the white scales are clearly defined during this phase.

Orion _ pictured here in 2007 in his correct colouration:

The 'white-sided' phenomena has dominated our Breeding Programme this Season.

We have produced many exeptional hatchlings exhibiting this attractive & consistent trait.

One for the record books here 

This amazing lineage will be test bred to verify the potential link between 'white-sided' & 'pied-sided' in future years.

See Photo Gallery for 'white-sided' timeline.