[Jacob-list] Jacob sheep oddities

[Linda]

Lamb noses will almost always turn black (always in my experience), the same way that white hooves will almost always become striped or black - again always in my experience, but I imagine someone out there has had hooves or noses that stay white/pink. 

"Brown" Jacobs are lilacs. They are "real" Jacobs and are registerable. It's a recessive trait, which is probably why you haven't seen it before. You will see lilacs pictured on a lot of the listers' websites.

Linda
 
www.patchworkfibers.com
Registered Jacob Sheep, Angora Rabbits, Handspun Yarn


> I have been raising Jacobs for 11 years and noticed a few

> characteristics in a few lambs.  Here they are, in no particular

> order. Has anyone noticed pink noses turning black?  I have watched

> two lambs I sold to a friend. They started out with pink noses, a

> big no-no among Jacob sheep, then at about 3 or 4 months they

> started to show a few spots of black on their nose.  The spots grew

> over time, like a disease, until the nose is almost all black.

> Weird.  Can someone explain?

>

> Oddity number 2.  I have a moorit (brown) spotted wether.  This has

> never happened before in all the 11 years of raising Jacobs.  How

> common is this??  Are they registerable?  He looks like a Jacob

> sheep, but the spots are brown (not black with brown tips).   I am

> keeping him for his fiber, 60% brown and 40% white so the yarn will

> be a light brown.  I'm happy, but this probably means there is

> something else in him besides Jacob, maybe not?  I will watch,

> maybe those brown spots will turn black like the pink noses turned

> black, but I doubt it will happen.  Anyone know of any moorit

> Jacobs?

>

> Cathy

> just wondering......

> Moscow, Idaho

>

>

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