Thanks, Gail and others for your help in trying to decide if this is a brown or black ram lamb. I just uploaded photos taken outdoors of his tail area with...
Wow! I can see why you are having a problem determining his color. Looks like he might be a dark brown, rather than either moorit or black. If you take a wool...
any chance you can get a close-up photo with his fleece parted so we can see down into the fleece? From the outside he almost looks "modified". (brown in...
The photo was taken outdoors in the pen, but there are trees shading it so that is probably why the darker color looks washed out somewhat. Okay, pedigree...
So his sire is BB/Bb and his dam is either BB/Bb or Bb/Bb. The possible choices if the dam is BB/Bb (black carrying brown): BB/BB = black - 25% BB/Bb = black...
I just uploaded photos of his fleece that show the color pretty much down to his skin. These were taken in direct sunlight without a flash. The first one...
I found them without a problem. He certainly looks brown in the photos, that's for sure. I guess the true test is to only breed him to brown ewes and see if he...
Thanks, Gail and Steven. My problem is that we only have a tiny flock of 5 white and one black ewe. If the only way to find out if he is brown is to breed...
Hi Grace: Breeding your new guy to any of your white ewes who have had solid (black or brown) offspring gives you a 50% chance of solid offspring. It is...
Perhaps this is an excellent opportunity to see if any of your ewes carry the brown recessive. White is a pattern, not a color, so all sheep carry two genes...
Greetings, list members. First, I guess I've better to introduce myself shortly. I'm Liisa Sarakontu, a color genetics hobbyist from Finland. I'm rather fluent...
Hi Grace, I second what Connie T said -- nice article on Shetlands! Thanks for posting the site. Got it bookmarked now. Eileen Here in southern Maine where the...
Liisa In 1989 I bought a small group of Åland sheep that I have bred in Sweden since then and made notes of the colours of all lambs. Now, however I have only...
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Aug 15, 2006 7:31 am
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... wrote: Thank you for your answer, Per. ... written in Swedish, do you read Swedish? ... Sure, I do read Swedish and now I found the Swedish names for sheep...
Liisa, The English blue pattern is not a mouflon pattern. It is more like a mix of the grey and the badgerface pattern. The body is grey. In the dark grey, the...
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Aug 15, 2006 2:08 pm
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Per, Your description of English Blue is similar to my conclusion about the color In Navajo-Churro. Looking at pedigrees, badger is always there, but not ...
... Now I'm confused. There are 6 separate A locus patterns in sheep, right? Dominant white, recessive black (rec. solid), grey and badgerface are what they...
Hi Liisa, There are probably much more than 6 patterns. One of these is the English blue. Have a look at http://www.gutefar.se/pdf/Isid%2075-78.pdf Look at...
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Aug 16, 2006 6:40 am
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... That would make sense, as the contents of A locus is not yet totally known (perhaps in any animal?), and several species have lots of A locus patterns. I...
I've noticed the beautiful grey color of Gotland sheep. What color genetics produce this lovely grey? Is it a solid grey, or a blend of black and white? ...
The wool of Gotland is a mix of black and white fibres. The sheep are homyzygous grey. Adasteinsson wrote in the 1970's after visiting the Gotland island that...
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Aug 24, 2006 8:26 am
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Per, If the wool is mixed black and white, is the hair coat black and the wool fibers white? Are the Grey lambs born black and then gradually develop the grey...
Connie, The Gute do have all different kinds of fibres. They have fine wool fibres, coarse kemp and hair. The rams and also a few ewes have long, very coarse...
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Aug 25, 2006 6:38 am
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Hi Liisa, I'm not sure if you already figured out what you were looking for, but... When we talk about Finnsheep's colors, it's difficult to find out any...
... Thanks, Marjo-Riina. This is what I had been suspecting, and I heard from amother source that that badger/mäyrä is used at least unofficially. ... I've...
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