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[Brenda]

Hi, Dan- I have wondered about that too. I have a ewe, Sugarpine Belle, that has a gray spot on her rump but no eye circle. She threw a pair of lilac rams last year, and one was a very dark gray, the other more medium. Both of those lambs had the eye circle. This year's lambs are not lilac. This year, I noticed the gray is spreading to other adjacent patches. Belle is only 3, so "gray hair" theories seem a bit premature. I think the gray in question seems like what the dog world describes as dilute black. ??? I had another ewe that faded to brown and had eye circles, but she never threw a lilac. Not sure if that was significant or not.

Brenda
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  From: Dan Carpenter 
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  Sent: Tuesday, April 06, 2010 7:48 AM
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  I sheared yesterday and found a clearly grey patch on an otherwise dark black 2-year old ram.  I noticed a different color on him last year when I sheared, but just figured it was a stain or faded spot.  (Some of you saw this ram at AGM last year and noticed the spot.)  This ram is a proven lilac carrier, but I don't know if the grey is from lilac or something else.  (Though I suppose that anything that isn't black is lilac.)

   

  See pictures at: http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?pid=11795463&l=35be1b9e9a&id=710530252 & http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?pid=11795965&l=a06f251237&id=710530252.

   

   

  -Dan

   

   

   

   



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