Hey everyone, in just a week or two, we will have available a fantastic selection of LGD pups for sale!!! These pups are from our two Tatra/Maremma x bitches...
Hi Carol: In Shetlands, I have seen two main types of black and white fibre grey. One is a genetically grey sheep, having at least one Ag gene at agouti....
Carol writes: <<I have also heard that white fibers in a dark fleece are undesirable, but maybe some blends are more interesting than solid colors?>> My...
... Linda, I think this "age graying" is what I am seeing. Mother is Aa/Aa black. Twin sister is Ag/Aa with the typical pattern for this kind of gray. Two...
Hi Carol: You asked if I though age greying was dominant or recessive. The short answer is I am not sure :-). It appears to be controlled by genes outside of...
Hi All, I haven't posted in a while... been reading, lurking, learning, and breeding lovely sheep :-) I was looking through the archives for a discussion on...
As far as I remember the red sheep have the white/tan gene (Awt) on the A-locus and homozygous E+E+ on the extension locus. An European sheep of that genotype...
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The red is tough to maintain in woolled sheep - so that reasonably fine woolled sheep that are born red all fade to ivory at maturity. The exceptions are some...
Hi Phil: Glad to have a face for your name now. I enjoyed our chats at the Congress. I am assuming that the red colour in the primitives and the hair sheep is...
you might also ask how long the red lasts. There is a California Red sheep -
the lambs are a nice red color (going by the pcitures) but they grow out of it...
Linda writes: <<Glad to have a face for your name now. I enjoyed our chats at the Congress.>> You went to NZ for the World Congress on Colored Sheep and...
The California Reds are derived of Tunis/Barbados. So I'm thinking the Tunis is closer to the source, which is why I'm trying to understand where it comes from...
I know I've had some Awt/A? shetland lambs born with gorgeous red fleece from phaeomelanin (Awt=white with tan) , and I'm thinking that this was actually a...
Val writes: <<The California Reds are derived of Tunis/Barbados. So I'm thinking the Tunis is closer to the source, which is why I'm trying to understand where...
ummm dad raised rabbits for show and table. Never saw any fading with them -
not even the reds. I wouldn't call it a ture fire red, but they were
definitly...
Hi Holly: Well, I fell off a bale stack and separated my shoulder just after I got back from NZ. I am just now starting to get some time for "extras". I had...
Linda, Sorry to hear about your shoulder. Hope it is getting better. The book that Linda mentions is a wonderful book. It is hard bound with many pages of...
Hi Laurelen: Good to hear from you! Shoulder is coming along, have to go slow and not overextend as I really need to have two hands and arms for lambing :-). ...
I don't know why sheep can't seem to keep "red" pigment in wool, but they really don't seem to be able to. The closest to red seems to be the primary fibers in...
Hi Linda Any chance you might have photos of examples of Alb in either black or brown base? I suspect that I have a yearling ram that may be Alb, but would...
If it were Shetlands you were talking about, it is genetics. If the lamb has any "Ag" in either line, the "red wooled" (moorit in Shetland terms) will fade to...
Hi Gail: I do have some Shetland photos I will send, off list. Dr. Sumner also published some good ones of his light badgerfaces on a black background, in the...
Could you tell me what the following are? black badger face (I've always thought it was AbAa BB/B? black gray badger face? (is it Ab/Ag BB/B?) brown...
... Ab/A? B+/B? The sheep is black with a badgerface pattern ... Linda is correct in that gray badgerface as Roland called it in the 3rd World Congress...
do you mean a black badger face is a solid black sheep with a badger face? I've never seen one of these. stephen ... Ab/A? B+/B? The sheep is black with a...
Hi Stephen: I think the term, black badgerface, refers to AbAaBBB? and is used to differentiate that from badgerface on a brown background. It is a regular ...
I'm not 'up' on bagderface sheep, never having had one :) I'm puzzled by the way Ab/?? sheep are being differentiated by the second Agouti gene. Are all Ab...
Hi Holly: I believe the theory is that light will dominate over dark, as in most of the alleles at Agouti. So, AbAa is darker in phenotype than AbAg or...
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