[Jacob-list] Wide Horns, Mane

[Heather Hettick]

I have a grandson of Sir Lancelot who has a fringe of longer Kempy fleece
along the lower line of his neck from his chin to his brisket.  Do you think
he might end up having the mane?  This lamb seems like he will have crimpy
but coarser wool, but that probably comes from the other side of the family
and his other grandfather had kind of a kempy neck but it didn't appear
until his second shearing.  None of our other 3 ram lambs have this fringe
either.

Heather Hettick
OSU ATI
Hettick.1 at osu.edu
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In a message dated 4/28/00 10:43:04 AM Eastern Daylight Time,
spahrfarm at dragonbbs.com writes:

>
>  I knew you would recognize Sir Lancelot immediately.  I do not recall any
> other sheep born here with the neck mane.  I thought perhaps it was
> correlated to the coarser type fleece.  Did you say that he did not pass
this
> trait to any of his offspring?
>
>
No, he did not, unless his sons develop it and the coarse wool down the back
when they get older. His oldest offspring here are now two-year-olds, so
there would be time for them to still develop the primitive trait, but I
don't recall his older offspring at your farm having a mane either.
Lancelot's wool was not coarse except for that down the back, and he did
have
the longer staple length with no crimp. Two of his lambs had the longer
length, the others did not. None had any crimp.

Joan Franklin

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