Hi Stephen and Holly Sent some stills to you The lambs are browns. Sire, Galtress McNish, is Fawn Katmoget his sire and dam are both white from white as far...
Our little N-C ram lamb BobCat was sheared a few days ago. He is black and tan reverse badger, at least for now ;-) . We are pleased to be keeping him as a ram...
I was wondering if anyone knows about the Blue pattern. That is what I understand to be the black with a blueish grey saddle mark on the back and sometimes...
I have a ram lamb that has different sized testicles. It seems like I remember reading about evaluating testicle conformation (this may have been in...
We will be having a barbeque to welcome a small rural farmer (Caleb) from a village in Kenya, Africa on Saturday May third here at our farm in St johns, MI...
My son-in-law owns three small farms in his native country, Algeria. He raises olives, mostly, but they also have sheep. Anyone planning a trip to Spain might...
I wish I could be there, but I am a little too far away to pop down for the evening. (I live near Edmonton, Alberta.) I hope that you will let us know how it...
I had the oddest lamb born today. She doesn't seem to match any of the photos or descriptions of any shetland that I've heard of. She has a coal black fleece...
Hi Gail, Your lamb sounds to me like several of the lambs born here this year. Please look at my album with the Blueface crosses. Please tell me how your lamb...
Check the Fair Hill album for Moonpie's pictures. She is a pandafaced (yuglet?) but has brown splashed down her front legs, a horizontal stripe on each side of...
One further note. I noticed you mentioned the close breeding. Moonpie's dam BeeBee is out of Mabelline by Mapleridge Hutton. Her sire, Rudolf is out of...
Hi Ingrid Yes, she is similar to yours. I tried to get photos yesterday, but it is REALLY hard to both hold the lamb and take the picture :-D . Needless to say...
Look at this animal: http://zt.tibet.cn/english/zt/040922_kkxlsl/200402004922112539.htm Our lamb formerly known as a "brown badger" has this line strikingly at...
Hi! We have had several Shetland lambs born this year that have white bodies with brown mottled points on legs, tails, ears and noses, kinda like Siamese ...
You'll need to contact the Shetland Registry - they will help you determine what to register your animals as. It's been my experience that many times the...
Hi Tracy, Photos would be helpful. From your description, I suspect your lambs are white. The "brown" would be phaeomelanin or "tan" which is the pigment that...
I finally remembered to pick up my photos of the shearing. I've put up pictures of the two lambs I was asking about before, Holly and BobCat. She continues to...
Hi Penny Your ewe is definitely a combination pattern, which I have been calling a "badger/B&Tan". I have produced many of these and find them exciting as...
Hi Ingrid, Thanks for your help with this. The red eye pattern info helped me to find some things. I found this related to agouti: "Allele comments The eye...
I had a goat with the ram's coloring. That is a reverse badger. In the badger the belly and face markings and legs are dark and the body is light(tan or...
I agree with Connie and Ingrid. Holly is a Blk&Tan/Badgerface. They are very pretty. Sometimes I think I have a Badgerface born, and then later realize that...
Should we look back at the genetics of these Black and Tan with eye patch or red eye sheep to see if there is a specific family or group of families involved? ...
Has anyone here looked into the color genetics of the Gulf Coast Sheep landrace? There used to be a small percent of colored including some odd looking...
Dear Laurie, Thanks for this great intro to the Gulf Coast Sheep. Because my son lives in New Orleans and we are not THAT far from Louisiana, I am very...
It might be helpful. My line is pretty old. They came from Ingrid's stock in the early 1980's. Then picked up a couple of NSP ewes. All the sheep were black....
I do not know the Gulf Coast Sheep, but the N-C where also crossed with Merino and several other breeds to "improve" them. My lambs that throw back to some of...
Hi is anyone able to help me by PM with a novice brown sheep colour question I am seeing a colour variation and just wondered if this is infact part of the...
... In Icelandic sheep, this is a very common phenomenon. It is referred to as phaeomelanin staining, or simply phaeo. The red-brown tinge is just another...
As for more about good reasons to get Gulf Coast sheep, after doing my homework, I could choose no other breed. I want sheep and am moving to Florida this year...
