I am copying this (below) from another list as I am pretty sure that Stephania was a member of this group. It is a real loss for the sheep world ......
Bill, thanks for letting us know. Stefania was a great help to me when I first starting navigating the "maze" of color genetics - she was very generous and...
Hello to everyone, Stefania passed away on Sun. evening. I had seen her the previous Wed. at the monthly get together of our five member fibre group. She was...
How accurate is using the info on when a ram covered a ewe as to when they lamb? My ewes are bagging up ready to lamb and I am having a hard time telling who...
I have been using a harness on my rams and find it very accurate. But I also notice that sometime the ram will jump on top of the girls to get to the hay first...
I've been AI'ing at least half of my flock for the past 8 years and almost every year have a ewe or two 'rebreed' according to the mark left by the clean up ...
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Feb 13, 2007 9:54 pm
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I just uploaded some photos of "Texas" Piebald Deer emailed to me from a friend -- I'm not sure of the origin of the photos, I think they might be from the...
Hi Lanette, Oh how interesting, even pretty -- the "Texas" Piebald Deer! I can throw out another question -- is taupe the usual base color of the Texas deer?...
Don't know about cream colored squirrels, but the squirrels in the Detroit area are black. I was startled the first time I saw them, as the squirrels in West...
There are a few black squirrels in west michigan also. Battle Creek, Richland, Hickory Corners has tons of them....in fact they are driving the reds out in...
Hi, My name is Maija Haeggblom I come from Aland Islands, which is an autonomic part of Finland. I´m breeding Aland Island Sheep and also studying the many...
This deer has white spotting - so this is not like mouflon, which lacks white spotting. Those pale areas on mouflons are not white! These pop up periodically...
Hi Gail, I like the word you chose -- startled. That was my reaction upon seeing the black squirrel. It was carbon black and shiny. The squirrels here in New...
We seem to have more black squirrels than other types up here in NW lower MI. I don't really like them--they make me think of the squirrels of Mirkwood :)...
I don't remember seeing anything but red (really more brown with yellow belly than red) squirrels when I was growing up in the Grand Rapids (Michigan) area,...
Nothing to do with Mouflon........ I am originally from South Texas, and we've had albino and piebald deer on the ranch. One was marked like an appaloosa...
The summer coat of a South Texas deer is grey. The hair is very short and slick. Only in the winter does it turn a slight reddish but not taupe. Northern...
Here in Utah, copper deficiency can sometimes be blamed for paling/fading color in fleece, with or even without "breaks" in the fleece. Liz in Utah ...
I've seen the opposite in horses. One of my racehorses was a "bleeder" that bled through lasix. He was put on just a pinch of a copper supplement. He was...
I have available limited copies of an out of print sheep book, 167 International Sheep Breeds. It is a large book, approx 13 x 17, with 34 pages of black and...
Let me correct myself a bit.....the book is oversized, being 13 x 17 but thin as it is only 34 pages. It has a wealth of info if you are interested in the...
It is a soft cover book, more like a thick magazine. I purchased one at Maryland Sheep & Wool several years ago. It makes for fascinating reading. I...
The Uda - dark forequarters, white rearquarters. There are quite a few fat tailed breeds in the book. Anita Garza www.elcascabel.com El Cascabel Running...
I have purebred Jacobs and Icelandics. We had an accidental breeding, thanks to rams knocking out doors this fall, and one of my Jacob ewes just had her...
Heather, This is a very interesting accidental breeding, so thanks for sharing the outcome. My thinking went to the ewe being lilac. One lamb was "typical ...
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