If your brown ewe in question isn't a morritt grey, then I suspect that she just has strong silvering that developed between 6 and 12 months and seemed to...
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Michelle writes: <<The Ag, or fading gene, on a moorit base coat? I thought that caused them to lighten in the brown tones, not into silver, and have fading...
Hello All- I can give a bit of input here since Michelle's moorit/? sheep came from our flock... She was born a typical moorit lamb color, quite dark and...
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does anyone know if there is a difference between the moorit from an australian bond (corridale ie merino/lincoln) and a CVM? My moorit CVM ram has a semi...
Aliza writes: <<My moorit CVM ram has a semi dominant expression - his dam was a white cormo with no chance of moorit and his sire threw moorit on non moorit ...
Well actually I have a white finn ram that is dominant black LOL. You just cant see any black wool. This comes from the use of ramboillet when the finns were...
Aliza, There "might, probably" be some difference in the CVM color understanding because it was documented as a mutation. Even though I do not have cvm, ...
I havent used him enough to answer your question Connie. I am going to use him on everything this year including the one lamb I have from him from this spring....
Aliza writes: <<Well actually I have a white finn ram that is dominant black LOL. You just cant see any black wool.>> I would appreciate more explanation of...
Holly - she got moorits in her F1 generation and then bred the two f1 moorit lambs together. Anyone can get moorit in the f2 generation at least a quarter of...
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Got back safe and sound, what a drive, not a long distance but for what it is, it seemed like some Hitchcock movies I have seen. There is a stretch inbetween...
I would love it if folks with more sheep color experience would take a look at the photo I just posted (Hatton Finnsheep folder) and tell me if the 07 lamb is...
... take a look ... the 07 ... last year ... dark grey. ... for my ... the fall ... Grace, It appears to me that what you have is a sun-bleached black. I have...
Hi! My name is Dee Heinrich, and I am new to the group. I have had an interest in color genetics for years with my small flock of Romney sheep, but am now...
Hi Group, I am Elizabeth Kinne and I have been raising Finnsheep at my farm, Stillmeadow, in NY since 1994. Grace Hatton posed a question recently about a ram...
Hi Elizabeth: I breed Shetlands and have done some test breeding experiments with a mechanism that produces a dark brown in Shetland sheep. You can see the ...
I have been looking in the archive and reading about modified colors. I have probably misinterpreted sunbleaching to mean actual exposure to the sun when in...
Hi Dee: Ed (Extension Dominant) will give black with BB sheep and brown with BbBb sheep. We had a fairly in depth discussion on Extension genetics a few ...
Hi Grace: I do quite a bit of breeding with the "modified" genetics in Shetlands. I think "sunbleaching" is a different mechanism and is an interaction...
... with BbBb ... few ... means that ... not Ed, ... showing a ... well as ... spot ... carrying ... also be ... extreme spotting gene to produce a white lamb...
I don't know how much this helps, but I used to have a couple shetlands who were BbBb AgAa, and their fleeces looked gray rather than gray brown unless you...
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Hi all We've had an amazing lamb crop this year and are pleased to announce that we have some lovely lambs for sale. Rams, ewes and wethers are good to go to...
