[Jacob-list] lilac

[Sue Roenke]

Attached is a great photo Marie took of a lilac lamb on the left and black and white lamb on the right.
Sue


From: fourhornfarm at frontier.com
To: peg at sweetgrass-jacobs.com; patchworkfibers at windstream.net; justinedixon at aol.com
Date: Wed, 2 May 2012 12:21:37 -0400
CC: jacob-list at jacobsheep.com
Subject: Re: [Jacob-list] lilac






I found Justin's ewe photo on my other e-mail address. 
Although I have not had a lilac with the two different colors I remember someone 
from the West coast posting one. It would be interesting to compare pedigrees of 
different Jacobs with this same coloration.




From: justinedixon at aol.com 
Sent: Tuesday, May 01, 2012 9:19 PM
To: peg at sweetgrass-jacobs.com ; fourhornfarm at frontier.com ; patchworkfibers at windstream.net 

Cc: jacob-list at jacobsheep.com 
Subject: Re: [Jacob-list] lilac

Carl, Linda, 
Peg et al. 


I was very interested reading your 
comments on lilacs and colour variation.  I have a lilac yearling that 
seems to have black spots also. See attached photo, is this common?


Thanks
Stuart
www.byeburnfarm.com 
 



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From: Peg Bostwick <peg at sweetgrass-jacobs.com>
To: 
'Carl Fosbrink' <fourhornfarm at frontier.com>; 
'Linda' <patchworkfibers at windstream.net>
Cc: 
jacob-list <jacob-list at jacobsheep.com>
Sent: 
Sun, Apr 1, 2012 12:52 pm
Subject: Re: [Jacob-list] lilac






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
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 

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

To: 'Linda' ; 'Carl Fosbrink' 

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 

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

To: Betty Berlenbach 

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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