My son Greg and I have a condition that causes spasms of the esophagus that temporarily shuts off the airway. Neither of us has ever passed out from this, but...
Hi Shelley, she has what could be described as partial or complete attacks a complete attack she will be completely motionless no body tone this could last for...
Hi Penny she feeds with her head up for a bottle and her head down for grazing and hard feed it can happen in either position. Renée ... From: Penny Ford To:...
When I followed you link to U-Tube the other day it also listed some other video of narcoleptic animals. One was of two Doberman puppies. The man in the...
Hi, but in the dog piebald is at the S locus. I guess you would have to be careful how you were defining piebald as it could be the result of white spotting...
I know this subject came up once before in relation to white spotting and eye colour/ albinism. I think the consensus was most sheep have yellow eyes apart...
I have sheep in my mixed herd with pale yellow eyes, yellow eyes, light brown eyes, dark brown eyes and one lamb, who has eyes which are yellow around the...
In humans blue is recessive to brown. What you were saying about the blue eyes appearing in closed flocks seem to support that in sheep. I have have sheep with...
Hello: I have Shetlands and in those, I have seen eye colour from very pale cream to a dark brown. I think all the lambs have dark brown eyes and they change ...
Dose anyone else on this list have English Blue sheep? I have been to the Mendelevian sheep inheritance site and read what they said about English blue but it...
Hi Kathy, I've posted photos of English Blue sheep I have, produced, and of a ram that I have used. The album name is Navajo-Churro Sheep - English Blue, the...
I'm interested in the answer to this one as well. We have Icelandics, and they apparently have the potential for expressing more than one of 6 potential...
I can try to take a picture, my camera is a cheap one and doesnt do close up very well. I think she will end up with very pale yellow eyes like her mom, I cant...
In this area, there are people who dont like blue eyed animals, dogs, sheep, goats, whatever, so they get selected against by those groups of people who think...
Hello: I have natural coloured BFLs as well as the Shetlands. In the BFLs, I think that the nc is English Blue. As there does not appear to be any AaAa in...
Dear Kathy, I think that I can be of some help to you regarding the placement of english blue in the hierarchy. One of the best ways--for me--to keep the...
Kathy, Maggie is correct that English Blue pattern, Aeb, is just one up in the hierarchy from self pattern Aa. Laurelen ************** Looking for love this...
I guess that "hide" would be a difficult word to address. For instance, Ab shields the outside and upper portions of the body, leaves unshielded the under side...
Linda, Not completely. All my English Blue lines did come out of badgerface sheep. So the badgerface did hide the English Blue well. Looking back a lot of ...
Hi Laurelen and Maggie: Thanks for your thoughts. The reason I asked has to do with the Agouti hierarchy and the idea of dominance. Both the top and the...
Linda, Do you think that some of the English Blue that are dark and have small tears are heterozygous, while the ones that have large tears and saddle, ...
Hi Laurelen: I have assumed that the tears are an integral part of the pattern. Not sure about the ear rims, etc. and moustache as the "minimal" ewe does not...
Dear Linda, I agree all you have stated. White tears ARE definitive of the english blue pattern. Rimmed ears, moustache etc. are, many times, the first things...
Hi, Many thanks for the replies, that helps alot. as the breed standard calls for only bright yellow eyes I'm not used to seeing dark eyed sheep. the lamb I ...
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