Hi Sarah, I did try to reply within hours of your message about your white Soay lamb appearing, but all my e-mails bounced back undelivered, so I had to wait...
Hi Barbara! ... I didn't get to do as much as I wanted. I tried soinning from the lock and it was much to short so I started carding lightly with much better...
Dear Sue, I would love to see a photo of your white lambs since my one is the only white soay I have ever seen! I think all except one of my lambs (4 in total ...
sarah
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Jun 4, 2002 10:59 pm
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Hi, Sarah and Sue....(and others) re: <<<I find it very interesting since they are such a 'wild' breed, the whiteness doesnt quite make sense to me from a...
interesting trying to match your observations of lambs to what is known about colour genetics in sheep. If I remember rightly "spotting" is a dominant gene,...
Thelma Rowell
thelma@...
Jun 6, 2002 10:57 am
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According to Peter Jewell in Island Survivors "the light phase is more probably a mutant which arose during domestication". I think that is a direct quote...
Roy Unsworth
royunsworth@...
Jun 7, 2002 7:59 am
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Hi Roy, I thought I had remembered Jill saying no sheep with white markings had ever been seen on Soay- but I was beginning to doubt my memory. I did remember ...
The genes and the enzyme systems that control fleece colour appear to be the same in Soays and members of the Primitive Northern Short Tailed sheep group...
Diane Hewitt
dph@...
Jun 7, 2002 8:54 am
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Diane This is very helpful, I do not have sufficent knowledge of the genetics, just a lot of questions so your comments give me more to think about. There seem...
Roy Unsworth
royunsworth@...
Jun 9, 2002 7:48 am
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Hello Kathie No, your memory serves you well. You and I were in Jill's hut that hot afternoon when she was very helpful and hospitable. We were picking her ...
Roy Unsworth
royunsworth@...
Jun 9, 2002 7:49 am
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I have been following the correspondence about fleece colour with great interest. I would very much like to know what a "mouflon" is in Soays. Generally I...
rnorton
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Jun 9, 2002 2:03 pm
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Hello Roswitha Yes, mouflon in Soay sheep is just as you have said - white underparts and around tail, with pale eye flashes. The rest is brown. Juliet...
gordon johnston
gordon@...
Jun 9, 2002 4:00 pm
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Hello Roswitha The Mouflon to which I refer, and I should have used the capital M, is the wild sheep of Corsica and Sardinia, said to be the ancestor of Soay....
Roy Unsworth
royunsworth@...
Jun 10, 2002 7:04 am
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In the Soay, does the mouflon pattern affect leg colour? And does the mouflon pattern only exist in brown (light/dark?) sheep, or can you also have black ones...
rnorton
red2211@...
Jun 10, 2002 11:19 am
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Hello Roswitha I'm afraid I can't help you on this. Leg patterns vary but I don't know of a connection to mouflon. The rest I'm not sure. Roy ...
Roy Unsworth
royunsworth@...
Jun 14, 2002 6:42 am
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the usual light and dark leg markings are part of the mouflon package....
Thelma Rowell
thelma@...
Jun 14, 2002 6:44 pm
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most of the corsican mouflon are dark brown, but there should be some light brown. as far as i know you can get plain black legs with very dark back but still...
Thelma Rowell
thelma@...
Jun 14, 2002 6:44 pm
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Roy, Sheep colour genetics should be the same for all breeds. infact the colour control system is similar for all mammals I believe. Soays may have been...
Thelma Rowell
thelma@...
Jun 14, 2002 6:44 pm
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Hi, sorry to be so long in replying. Thelma has covered most of the questions but there are a couple of comments. Soays and Northern Primitive Short tailed...
Diane Hewitt
dph@...
Jun 14, 2002 8:36 pm
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Thelma Rowell wrote < I would guess that colour is not a character to which sheep pay much attention when selecting a mate themselves >. We have observed very...
gordon johnston
gordon@...
Jun 14, 2002 10:08 pm
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... From: Susan Albro Miller To: soaysheep Moderator Sent: Friday, June 14, 2002 4:50 PM Subject: Re: File - soayhi.txt I just received my first soay sheep...
Hi Susan and welcome. An interesting question - how do we pronounce 'Soay'. On the mainland it's usually So-aye, with equal emphasis on both syllables. ...
gordon johnston
gordon@...
Jun 14, 2002 11:24 pm
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sheep are not supposed to be able to see colour. I have a suspicion they may perceive some think between our rather acute primate colour perception and mere...
Thelma Rowell
thelma@...
Jun 16, 2002 8:42 pm
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Whilst worming our motley flock and weighing them all individually to get the correct dose, we noticed something about our Soay lambs horns. The two ewe lambs...
gordon johnston
gordon@...
Jun 16, 2002 9:40 pm
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In a message dated 6/16/2002 2:40:24 PM Pacific Daylight Time, ... Hi Juliet! Yes, we have seen this within our Soay flock and our former Shetland flock. The...
Hi, I am new to the group. I have chickens and guineas and would like to add some soay sheep. I am in N.E. TN just north of Morristown. I'd like to find a...
I am also new to the group and live in Johnson City. So far we have just one young female. I have been doing some checking around and found a breeder in...
Come to think of it there is also the lady that we got ours from. Her name is Joan Weeks and she lives in the far north of Mississippi just south of Memphis....
Not the working part, the getting me the info part. I'm glad to know that there are people this close with the sheep. How do you like yours so far? I had pygmy...
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