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

[Peg Bostwick]

According to Ingrid's book, that is how someone first described the color to
her. which I always took to be more blue gray than brown.   

 

Peg Bostwick

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

517-626-6981

 

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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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From: "Hettick, Heather"  <mailto:hettick.1 at osu.edu> <hettick.1 at osu.edu> 
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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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