[Jacob-list] pictures and percent color

[shepherd]

Hi,

My "take" on this single picture is the following:  I am really glad we need to send in more than one shot of our sheep for registry decisions.  This picture is out of focus for starters, making it harder to make any judgment on.  It also makes me want to see a facial and opposite side.  I don't get much from the rear shots on coloring, but do see lots regarding wool how far down on the leg and other breed characteristics.  These legs look spotted, which is nice (not black and not as dark as the body).  There is just too little info in just one shot to say percent dark.  

I had an interchange with Ingrid Painter, I believe, a few months back regarding a ram lamb I just dearly wanted to use.  I had stated he was 15%, and she said she thought that was a little high and asked why I felt it was 15% rather than more like ABOUT 10% which is where she was thinking.  I shot right back (this was a FRIENDLY interchange, so please don't read anything other than this into my comments) that the animal has to be 15%, so that is what I said he was........he can be found at www.iseespots.com/Ingvar.jpg and is only around in memory now.

If the upper limit is 85%, then I will say 85% and pray nobody challenges it if the animal is 95% and I am dearly wishing it to be 85% instead.  If you want to see the percent color change on animals, go back and check out about 20 different animals in the AMBC books that were then registered in the first 1989 JSBA flock book.  I can make a value judgment on color one day and be off by 10% the next time I look at that animal.  Color percent is hard to derive in any sort of accurate manner.

Mary Ellen
ISeeSpots Farm www.iseespots.com
Home of Jacob Sheep, Shetland Sheep,
and German Angora Rabbits, colored German Angora crosses.
Renewable fleeces, loving personalities, friends.
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