[Jacob-list] lilac

[Peg Bostwick]

Hi, Carl.   I had to think about it. but most of the lilacs that I had in
the past went back one way or another to Sue Thaxton's sheep, maybe some of
Mary Spahr's, and Luke Hardy's.  But one of my Fieldwood ewes seemed to be
lilac factored as well.

 

Vickie Alber had a BEAUTIFUL lilac ram - 2 horned - named Alber's Mathias.
I had two of his son's, Alber's Norman and Alber's Chaucer.   Both were
black and white but had lilac lambs.   Mathias' sire was Raspberryshire
Tutankamen (sp?) - his owner had just a few Jacobs but nice ones.   Can't
recall where she got her stock, but I'm thinking the same lines - Luke,
Vickie Alber (who had some from Sue Thaxton, some from Francis Weaver Grill,
some from a breeder in Ontario.).   Early on, I had a ram named Hadrack from
Neil Kentner that was sired by a Sue Thaxton ram, and from a Prairie Marie
ewe.  Hadrack was also lilac factored.     

 

Don't know if all that helps. Vickie's "Mathias" was brownish as I recall.
Put PERFECT fleeces on all of his lambs.    Peg

 

Peg Bostwick

 <mailto:peg at sweetgrass-jacobs.com> peg at sweetgrass-jacobs.com

517-626-6981

 

From: Carl Fosbrink [mailto:fourhornfarm at frontier.com] 
Sent: Sunday, April 01, 2012 10:50 AM
To: Peg Bostwick; 'Linda'
Cc: jacob-list at jacobsheep.com
Subject: Re: [Jacob-list] lilac

 

Thanks Peg. What is the pedigree on the Jacobs you have or have had that
have this color of fleece? It makes me wonder why I have never had this
occur in any of the lambs I have had born here. The one ewe I got from Carl
Fredericks was a darker blue/gray as a lamb than the lilacs I have had
before and the ones I got from Shannon. The ones I got from Shannon have
pedigrees that go back to the Maverick lines as do a lot of my flock, but of
course they have other lines in their pedigrees also. These ewes and my
lilacs are all a lighter blue/gray.

 

From: Peg Bostwick <mailto:peg at sweetgrass-jacobs.com>  

Sent: Saturday, March 31, 2012 9:10 PM

To: 'Linda' <mailto:patchworkfibers at windstream.net>  ; 'Carl Fosbrink'
<mailto:fourhornfarm at frontier.com>  

Cc: jacob-list at jacobsheep.com 

Subject: RE: [Jacob-list] lilac

 

Carl, Linda, et al..  I've had some lilacs in the past that I would call
more light brown (taupe?) than gray as lambs, but my experience has been
like Linda's - they tend to gray and "fade" when fairly young.   I have sort
of thought the ideal lilac would be one that really held its color.

 

Carl - somewhere I might have some old lilac roving - mostly from lambs -
that is clearly a light brown (to my eye).  If I can find it I'll send you
and Linda both some.   On the other hand, I have not seen a lilac Jacob
fleece that is as true, darker brown as some of the morrit (spelling?)
fleeces that are for sale with other breeding. (more a corriedale type).  

 

Peg 

 

Peg Bostwick

peg at sweetgrass-jacobs.com

517-626-6981

 

From: jacob-list-bounces at jacobsheep.com
[mailto:jacob-list-bounces at jacobsheep.com] On Behalf Of Linda
Sent: Saturday, March 31, 2012 5:50 PM
To: Carl Fosbrink
Cc: jacob-list at jacobsheep.com
Subject: Re: [Jacob-list] lilac

 

Carl,
I'm sending you some fleece samples. I find that I get good chocolate fleece
and yarn from the first shearing. After that, the color tends to fade and
gray - different rates of graying for different sheep. I see the same thing
in some blacks.  If the first shearing is chocolate and successive shearings
are more gray, I tend to think that early graying (or some other modifier or
maybe diet?) plays a part in the color change. Legs and face are hair, not
wool. Perhaps that has something to do with the differences in color we see
between peripheral markings and fleece. I don't know. It's an interesting
subject.

Linda  .

On 3/31/2012 3:25 PM, Carl Fosbrink wrote: 

I agree with Linda on several points and we have discussed lilacs before. I
have been experimenting with lilac to lilac and lilac to b&w matings for a
few years now. I have always had some lilacs in my flock from the very
beginning. All of my lilac to lilac matings have produced lilac lambs. What
I refer to as lilac is the blue/gray color although some are darker and some
lighter shades of that color. There seems to be differences of opinion as to
what is lilac. I have been told there are chocolate lilacs and Linda has
been told that what is considered chocolate are the ones that breed true. My
blue/gray lilacs breed true. To me what would be considered a chocolate
lilac would be a Jacob that has chocolate color on face and legs and a
fleece that is brown all the way to the skin. I will not say there is no
such color, but that I have never seen one in person. Maybe we are just
dealing with a difference in thinking as to what is lilac color. I do know
that what I call lilac is what some people call chocolate lilac. I have seen
a lot of lilac Jacobs and they are all what I would call the blue/gray lilac
color. I have bred several lilacs over the years and have gotten a lilac ewe
from Carl Fredericks from WI. and lilac ewes from Shannon Phifer from OR.to
get unrelated lilacs for my experiment and those ewes were the same
blue/gray color that have been born here and that I have seen elsewhere and
have bred true  when mated to my lilacs. I feel strongly that if there is a
true chocolate lilac that it should be registered as a chocolate instead of
a lilac. If there is anyone who has a true chocolate lilac out there please
send me photos of face and legs and fleece. I would love to see it. If we
are just experiencing a difference in how we interpret the same color that
is a lot easier to deal with. 

 

From: Linda <mailto:patchworkfibers at windstream.net>  

Sent: Friday, March 30, 2012 8:56 PM

To: Betty Berlenbach <mailto:lambfarm at tds.net>  

Cc: jacob-list at jacobsheep.com 

Subject: Re: [Jacob-list] lilac

 

That's the opposite of what I see in my lilac lambs. The body color at birth
looks black, but the facial color is what tells me the lamb is lilac. Leg
markings often appear black, but eventually start to show browning. Dr.
Sponenberg wrote an article about various modifying genes that affect the
color, but are not color genes - early graying, roaning, tolerance to sun,
etc. I wonder if some of these modifying genes might account for the
difference between chocolate and blue lilacs.I would be very interested to
hear more about Dr. S's report at the AGM. 

Sheep that are not a traditional black have been registered as lilac. If we
accept that lilac is recessive, lilacs bred together should always produce
lilacs. This has not happened with some sheep registered as lilac. Either
our definition of lilac or our understanding of the genetics of lilacs is
flawed.

Linda



On 3/30/2012 6:46 AM, Betty Berlenbach wrote: 

I don't have a lot of experience with lilac, but I've had a question asked
of me.  I know that occasionally, I will have a lamb that looks black, but
when it dries off, in the light, it is very dark grey, with that telltale
"halo" of lighter color around the eyes and blue eyes. Still, it is not the
blue=lilac/light grey, blue eyed color from birth that I've seen.  In the
dark grey type, the head and leg markings seem to remain black, though the
body color is very dark grey. AND, I've heard people talk about chocolate
brown lilac.  So, is "lilac" another word for "not-black" or what?  The
guide book/breed standard, unless I"ve missed it, doesn't talk about these
variations.  I recall Phil Sponenberg, way long ago at a N.J. AGM bring up
the thought that there were two jacob blacks, one dominant to the other,
both dominant over regular ol' white sheep white.  No idea whether that was
something others observed and what difference it made or why he thought
there were two.  So, Fred and others, thoughts?





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