thanks apreciate your comments:-). Grey is an unusual colour for ouessants so we don't get the chance to see them often. I'll check out gute sheep. Renée ... ...
Hi, We're new to sheep. We bought a little flock from Connie Taylor in July and learning on the fly. The ewes are bred for Christmas. We have a small farm...
Hi I have been given some statistical data from a fairly extensive database on ouessant sheep. In my attempts to establish if dominant black exists within the...
Hi, I have a couple of questions I hope someone maybe able to answer. can anyone confirm this sheep ( hypothetical) AwtAa BbBb Ed E+ would appear brown? and...
Renee writes: <<AwtAa BbBb Ed E+ would appear brown? and that this one Awt Awt BBBbEdE+ would appear black? >> Yes and yes, at least for Shetlands. I think...
Hi Gail and Holly thanks for the replies. re brown sheep producing black lambs the only information I have is in number form. from a pairing of brown x brown a...
What color were the "black" lambs as adults? Sometimes the only way you can sort out brown lambs from black at birth is to look at the color of the skin around...
Hi Holly and Renee: I won't be surprised if there are a number of mechanisms that can make the dark brown colour. I know other breeders also have ones that go...
the alternative is that some of the adults are BBBb I do know of at least one dark brown that was born black ( to all intents and purposes.) without qualifying...
Linda writes: <<I think, from my progeny testing, that my dark browns are BBBb with additional genes that allow some blending of the black and brown.>> ...
Last spring we got twins, I put them both black to papers. When I took them first time out, I got surprice, when another was become brown. The brown one were...
Hi Holly: I did a sheep trip in August into Montana and we just used birth certificates and drivers' licenses. Those still work for driving across north to...
Hi Gail and Holly: Gail, I am wondering what colours her parents are? How would you describe her face and legs, eye rims, etc? Holly, one thing that is...
Hi Holly, you wrote **Remember, the mechanism that makes black eumelanin change over to brown eumelanin affects the *entire* animal :) BB/Bb HAS to be...
Hi, Renee :) I came to sheep color genetics from rabbits, which tripped me up for a while until Dr Phil Sponenberg and other members of this list put me...
Hi does anyone know / understand punnett squares? and would they be able to help explain it to me? Kind regards Renée Hemming http://ouessants.blogspot.com ...
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Hi, I am afraid my tiny brain was hoping to find the solution but it looks like another formula is needed; Ok is there a formula or a way to work back on...
Unless my thinking is way off base, I thought when mating an Awt/Aa sheep to an Awt/Aa sheep would produce Awt/Awt and 25% Of the time (homozygous white ...
yes would that not make three to one in favour of whites? one Awt Awt two Awt Aa and one AaAa? so if in fact in reality the figure I have shows a ratio of 6:1...
... Awt two Awt Aa and one AaAa? ... favour of white lambs what percentage of the adults would be Awt Awt? ... Renee, I'm not sure that it is really possible...
This can be estimated if you make some assumptions. I will assume that you are only mating white sheep with genotype Awt/awt or Awt/Aa. If you breed the sheep...
Hi Renee, Punnett squares are a tool for determining inheritance of alleles. Unfortunately, they are only as good as the information that you put in them....
Hi Amy thanks I wasn't sure what Punnett squares were (learning as I go along) they have helped but the information needed is beyond the limits of punnett...
Thank you so much still don't comprehend all the maths but I will sit and ponder. One further question if I may. using this figure for the ratio of whites Awt...
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