Here are fleece shots of Bittersweet, Annabelle's ram lamb.
shoulder area
hip area
scrotumLooks clearly moorit, right? This would mean that white Annabelle's genes at the A locus must be Awt/Aa.
Here are fleece shots of Bloom, Annabelle's ewe lamb.
shoulder area
mid-side
hip areaEven though Bloom doesn't show any other signs of Ag, that is a lot of fading at the skin level - much more than I would expect from "side dusting" on a gulmoget. But her sire is clearly a moorit gulmoget, and her dam is Awt/Aa, so there's no possibility of Bloom inheriting the fading gene. What's up?
(The photos I took over the weekend are still languishing in an unopened file; I will get to them eventually.)
That's it for today from . . .
5 comments:
I'm stunned with how long their fleeces are already. Wow.
They're not, really; just tight close-ups. The moorit ram lamb is pictured in the previous post and you can see how evenly crimpy his fleece is - but I wouldn't call it long.
Greek to me :-)
Unknown modifier gene?
I'm wondering about that, too, Shelly.
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