[Jacob-list] white jacob
Linda
patchworkfibers at windstream.net
Wed May 1 19:24:58 EDT 2013
It could be that both parents carry only one dominant black gene?
Linda
On 5/1/2013 6:50 PM, Kate Barrett wrote:
> Tim:
> I have had the same situation here, and have had a couple white lambs
> born over the past 15 years. All of the ewes and rams are purebred
> Jacobs, and there is a very low inbreeding coefficient. I posted some
> photos of last years white ewe lamb on the Jacob Face Book page. I
> kept her and plan to breed her this fall, just to see, as she is a
> very nice ewe with lovely fleece. This year however I had 3 white
> lambs out of 36 total...so this is getting a little ridiculous:) I
> guess I will change rams and hope for the best.
> >From what the Jacob Folks on Facebook said, a white lamb is like one
> big spot. The Jacob person from England seemed to think it could be an
> inbreeding situation, but my paper work suggests nothing of the sort.
> I thought perhaps one of the ewes had switched moms right after birth
> as she was the one who had the previous white lambs, and then 3
> different ewes produced white lambs this year. The white lambs have
> always been a twin to a nicely marked jacob lamb.
> I originally thought of the white lambs like a white buffalo, or a
> crop out paint, but the regularity with which it is appearing is not
> something I like. Oddly enough the mother ewes have always treated te
> white lambs like they are extremely special:) Pure white lambs are
> not register-able, and any register-able offspring would have to start
> over as FF. However I am interested to see how this beautiful white
> ewe produces.
> Kate Barrett
> Ruby Peak Farms
> Lostine OR 97857
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> I wonder if anyone else out there has had this situation. I talked
> to Mark
> Williams about it, and he hadn't heard of it, so I thought I'd put
> it out
> to the list.
>
> In the past 8 or 9 years, a few of my ewes have produced entirely
> white
> Jacobs lambs. Never more than one in a given year, and, until last
> year,
> most were born dead, or died within a couple days.
>
> Last year, one ewe produce another all white ewe lamb, alive and
> healthy.
> She grew well and was bred last fall, and recently delivered a fine,
> healthy, dark ram lamb. Both animals are unusually friendly, actively
> seeking contact whenever I'm in sight.
>
> Milky has blue (ish) eyes, not a black hair on her, no black even
> inside
> the mouth. Her parentage traces back, un broken through pure bred,
> registered Jacobs. No other sheep have been on the farm since
> several years
> before I started Jacobs.
>
> Does this situation just qualify as one humongous, big white spot...or
> what??
>
> Tim Koenig
> Applegarth Farm
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