[Jacob-list] Jacob-list Digest, Vol 96, Issue 8

[Hettick, Heather]

I love the pictures!

I have some on my website too:
www.moonstruckfarm.wordpress.com

I've always considered my lilacs brown, although some more than others and I've had my share of faders - who to me tend to look grayer.

I'm down to two permanent Jacob ewes in my flock who were shorn almost a month ago, just lambed and are both lilac.  Lavender is a nice brown lilac who hasn't faded at all and I'm thinking she's around 6 now.  I was admiring the color of her fleece this year at shearing.

Cotton is only 3 but has faded a lot, you can see her if you scroll down some.  She has a really long coarse fleece, but I like it.  I kept them more for personality (good mothers and friendly) than anything else and Lavender was a bottle lamb and is very pet-like.

They both have black lambs, sired by a moorit solid Icelandic ram.  You can see my  purebred Icelandic moorit mouflon lambs in some of the photos too.  They are darker, but pretty similar colored to darker lilac lambs, but no eye-rings.  Moorit varies a bit, but most of mine lighten up to a sort of a taupe with reddish or blonde tips as they go out in the sun.  Maybe on average moorits are a little redder than lilac brown Jacobs but nothing like the Alpaca browns. The lilac and moorit genes are definitely not the same thing though.  I consistently get black lambs breeding Lilac Jacob to moorit Icelandic .  

Could lilac be a pattern ( recessive to solid) on a genetically black sheep?  Maybe like dilution or something?

Heather Hettick
Creston, OH
Moonstruck Farm

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