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

[Carl Fosbrink]

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" <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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