To me, she looks more like an Ag/Aa Bb/Bb :) Mine have just that coloring on points. But, as was pointed out, it's VERY difficult to tell genotype from a ...
Hi Holly thanks for that I appreciate the difficulty one reason why i waitied until the two brown ewes arrived before even attempting to make some decisions...
I understand your challenges, Renee :) It's similar in the Shetland field, where there are a handful of people who really understand color genetics, a few...
Hi Holly yep that about sums it up:-)) I have tried to document where possible with original texts and photographs the original type of sheep on the island we...
Hi Renee: It is mid morning where I am, not quite half a day behind you. Just getting ready to go out and do chores :-). Best regards, Linda Wendelboe Fibre...
Cool site about the Ouessants, thanks Renee. They look so much like Shetlands, I keep being surprised when there's something to offer scale in the pictures :)...
Hi Holly The red lamb is a known Awt with heavy phaeo. the black grey ram is a dutch ouessant they have already admitted to using romanov and finnsheep to...
Rebecca, It does sound like you may have at least one ED gene. The TGH may be Awt/A? BB/B? Ss/Ss Ed/E+ The E. Blue ram. Aeb/Aa BB/B? Ss/S? E+/E+ (Does your...
Hi Laurelen and Rebecca When i have more time I'd like to go into this more but right now I'm wading knee high in (very cute) lambs. I used a new Blueface ...
Hi further to my mails the other day i asked the breeder re the light ouessant ewes' colour heres the breeders explanation ( english is her third language) ...
Hi Ingrid and Laurelen - The patterns that come out in the crossbreds are very interesting. I've crossed some of my grade meat ewes on my churro rams this year...
Hello every one. I am asking about pigmented skin in white sheep because I had thought that most "white" breeds displayed pink noses, eye rims etc. In my...
Hi Amy My experience, for what it is worth, is that bright pink noses are the results of spotting. My white sheep that carry black usually have black or grey...
I agree with Gail. We breed Romneys and the standard calls for a sheep with AwtAwt to have "black points" i.e. black eye rims, noses, lips and hooves. This is...
Hi can you explain what the specific ASP shield is? ie what you mean by that thanks Renée ... From: Carol To: sheep-color-genetics@yahoogroups.com Sent:...
Oh, boy...this question AND e-mail is not a comfy medium for me...but I'll try. The agouti gene set alters the tissue environment around site-specific pigment...
Hi Carol thanks I appreciate your explaantion and it makes perfect sense to me thanks:-) where would I look for articles from the world congress? Renée ... ...
Amy writes: <<In my Shetland flock I recently introduced a white ram and got colored lambs that I do not believe were a result of dominant black.>> This is...
Hi Amy, I'm about to post a few pictures of some of my crossbred lambs from my (white) Blueface Leicester ram (Ringo) to Navajo Churro ewes. BFL's have blue...
... colored ... black ... perhaps, ... read ... reproducing. ... Holly, I understand that about the color being hidden. When I got the ram, Serel, I believed...
Perhaps your white ram is AwtAa/BbBb/MmMm instead. Folks have confused Ag and modified sheep before. Or if they are this year's lambs, perhaps they just have...
Hi, The gingery reddish lamb I thought was a brown badger has changed color rapidly. She is now about 2 1/2 months. Her reddish hue has faded to a tan on the...
-OK, I have a theory, She started out looking like a brown bager, but now she looks like my Tunis/Shetland cross lambs with the bager laid over the Tunis...
What would the meaning be of a few small tan spots on the face of an otherwise white Finn ewe. She has dark freckles in her ears and a spot on her udder. I...
I have just posted more (better) pictures of the crossbred (BFL/N-C) lambs born here this year. I've added pictures of the only other lamb born here five...
Hi Katja, my sheep has a pink nose and ears with a few little spots on them. The tan spots on my sheep's face are the same color as yours but very small - -...
I've not seen tan spots in the facial hair like Katja's Finn ewe in my Navajo-Churro. The tan spotting I see is generally in the body areas. The color of the...
I posted some photos quite sometime ago, under "Navajo-Churro Colors and Patterns". Of some sheep colors and patterns that run in my flock. If you look at...
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