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After many attempts and selective breeding of the two sheep, a consistent badger-faced color pattern was found and the California Variegated Mutant was born. Mr. Eidman bred sheep for over 15 years without selling off any stock. [3] In 1982, Mr. Eidman's flock of 75 sheep were dispersed to many different buyers throughout the United States.
Calico sheep is a type of sheep that has more than one colour within its coat. [1] The colouring is due to a piebald mutation, but the calico sheep is not a recognized breed. These sheep tend to be very small due to intensive inbreeding and are often mislabeled as a true breed. Rather, they are mere crossbred sheep that have interesting colour ...
Four breeds of sheep, in the illustrated encyclopedia Meyers Konversationslexikon. This is a list of breeds of domestic sheep. Domestic sheep (Ovis aries) are partially derived from mouflon (Ovis gmelini) stock, and have diverged sufficiently to be considered a different species. Some sheep breeds have a hair coat and are known as haired sheep.
The Manx Loaghtan is a small sheep, with no wool on their dark brown faces and legs. The sheep have short tails and are fine-boned. In the past century the sheep's colour has stabilised as "moorit", that is shades between fawn and dark reddish brown, though the colour bleaches in the sun. [6]
The colors of Greenlandic sheep are inherited in a similar way to those of other sheep, but they display more variety in color and pattern than most other breeds, and there are some variations not seen in other sheep. Each sheep carries three genes that affect the color of the sheep, and for each gene, there are dominant and recessive alleles ...
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The Icelandic [a] is the Icelandic breed of domestic sheep.It belongs to the Northern European Short-tailed group of sheep, and is larger than most breeds in that group.. It is generally short-legged and stocky, slender and light-boned, and usually horned, although polled and polycerate animals can occur; there is a polled strain, the Kleifa.
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