Hi sheep-color-genetics, I set up a Facebook profile where I can post my pictures, videos and events and I want to add you as a friend so you can see it....
What 'color' genetics is behind the white sheep breeds, like Targee, Dorset, Columbia, etc? Are these white sheep with pink skins Awt and E+? I thought that...
Hi Letty Dr. Sponenberg has an excellent summary of sheep coloration in the book : The Genetics of Sheep, Piper & Ruvinsky. In his article, he states that...
Hi I'm just wondering what an albino sheep looks like and if you can differentiate its phenotype? I looked up the cost of the sheep genetics book copies...
Good morning Renee 1) an albino sheep would have no pigment cells. Therefore, its tell-tale sign would be--as in other animals--pink eyes 2) I suggested the...
... That type of albinism is "full albinism", and actually other, less severe types of albinism are more common in many species. For example, blue-eyed albinos...
I never bought the idea of 'big white spot' to explain white sheep with pigmented eyes, faces, etc. For one thing, if we're talking Ss/Ss, then those sheep...
Hello All: Just curious, I don't have many white sheep and haven't had much experience with white sheep. However, I "think" that my white Shetlands, that I...
Liisa...thanks for the in-depth information on the albino. My answer was simplistic. But, I assumed that Letty meant exactly what she said--pink SKIN. She is a...
Hi Thanks this is what i wasn't sure about as I understood that blue eyes in kittens was a sign of lack pigmentation and your explanation of different types/...
Hello everybody...and I apologize for a surface-only answer to Letty Klein's question. In an effort to avoid compounding my previous error, I will enumerate my...
... Blue eyes are a lack of pigmentation. Normal mammal eyes have two layers of pigment, and when both layers are there, the eyes are nearly black, brown or...
Made perfect sense to me thank you :-) Renée ... From: Tawanda Farms To: sheep-color-genetics@yahoogroups.com Sent: Tuesday, November 18, 2008 6:10 PM ...
Hi, I can confirm there are definitely blue eyed sheep, I own a blue eyed ram both his eyes are a very pale blue. It seems highly heritable as many of his...
Well... we own a blue eyed black Missouri foxtrotter (horse) but in his case he carries a lethal white gene. Doubt this pertains, but merely to add to the...
Hi Linda All my white shetlands have pink skin, but none have pink noses - only my spotted sheep whose spots include their noses have pink noses. And there is...
Hi Gail: Thanks, not having had many spotties or many whites, I wasn't tuned in to the possible differences in pink skin tone. I was wondering though, as ...
... "Lethal white" in horses is one of the several known white spotting/pinto genes, the frame overo. It causes a pretty (but very variable and often very hard...
... only my spotted sheep whose spots include their noses have pink noses. And there is a subtle difference in the pink skin of the white sheep and the pink...
Letty wrote, Thanks Maggie, This helps, but there has to be more to it. Would it be "spotting" in place of Awt? Dr Phil says Awt animals have black skins, so...
I'm sure Gails observation holds true but heres a puzzle. Ouessants don't have spotting the most they get to is a poll spot in some of them and as the vast...
... Okay, so I had to go look at the noses of my white Icelandic sheep (which are related to shetlands), to see if they were pink or colored. I had a ...
Good morning Letty! Yes, I agree. There "has to be more to it". I can answer only a couple of things from your e-mail : 1) spotting can not "be in place" of...
Very interesting observations! My understanding is that Awt A? sheep have "pink" skin. Maybe as Gail noted, it's not really unpigmented pink, but "flesh"...
Well they could be like my eyes. I was born blond with brown eyes and fair skin. My eyes changed to a dark green with brown centers. My hair darkened to a...
Liisa, The Jacob have several 'types' of blue eyes. A light blue which seems to be light sensitive, a darker blue a mixture of blue and brown and the normal...
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