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[Debbie Bennett]

On Wednesday, April 10, 2002, at 06:35 AM, Debbie Bennett wrote:

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> On Wednesday, April 10, 2002, at 06:33 AM, Debbie Bennett wrote:
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>> I have one freckled ewe. She was the first lamb born to our farm and 
>> we discovered freckling the first time we sheared her (big dark spots 
>> and freckled everywhere else - not a clean patch of white on her 
>> body).She has now produced 5 lambs all of which are freckled - can't 
>> always tell at birth, I check at two to four weeks of age. This 
>> freckling is present on the skin and in "shorter than the white" black 
>> fiber, so that the lambs appear to have large black and white areas 
>> except the first couple weeks after they are sheared.
>>
>> One of the things I have seen judges look for are "clean" black spots 
>> rather than a black spot with, what I call, a halo effect, (the black 
>> spot that has some white fibers in the black area, around the edges). 
>> So far, I have only seen this once - a set of twin ewes, one with 
>> clean spots and one with haloed spots.
>> Debbie Bennett
>> Feral Fibre Farm
>>
>> On Tuesday, April 9, 2002, at 04:30 PM, stonecroft235 at juno.com wrote:
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>>> Gordon - you mentioned judges dislike freckling - have you had the
>>> experience of seeing sheep who have passed the criteria of no freckles
>>> but developed them later as part of the aging process?   Are the 
>>> majority
>>> of sheep entered in competitions fairly young, thus no freckling?  Or,
>>> have British & Scottish breeders successfully bred out the freckles?
>>>
>>> Sue Martin
>>>
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