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

[Linda]

Interesting because lilac in rabbits is the dilute form of chocolate. I 
don't know where the term "lilac" came from for rabbits or sheep. 
Neither my lilac rabbits nor my lilac sheep have ever been purple!
Wonder if anyone remembers why the term was chosen for Jacobs?

Linda

On 4/2/2012 4:23 PM, Carl Fosbrink wrote:

> This could be part of the problem. The 4H ewe looks like blue/gray 

> lilac to me. I can't tell as much about the 2H ewe because the light 

> is not as bright on her color. I think there is a difference in how 

> people interpret the color, but I am still going to wait to see the 

> fleece samples I am going to be sent. Lilac in rabbits is more of a 

> blue/gray color than an actual lilac that is a purplish red color, but 

> I guess lilac was what was decided upon as the name for these rabbits 

> and Jacobs that were not b&w.

> Carl

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>> 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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