Hey I have an orange phase eastern garter and I'm wondering when her babies are born I think most will look yellow as Shannon stated in one post I believe but is the gene recessive? dominant? in other words I wonder what % of her babies will end up being orange as they get older as I highly doubt the father was an orange phase. Just the chances of that would be slim as of 100's of garter snakes if not 1000's of them I've seen in my life and I have only ever come across 1 orange phase eastern. Secondly are they rare? and if you bred some of the brighter orange babies together as adults is that how you could eventually get deeper orange or red ?