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Livestock => Sheep => Topic started by: andywalt on February 22, 2011, 09:30:26 pm

Title: Look at this little ewe lamb!!
Post by: andywalt on February 22, 2011, 09:30:26 pm: I was met early this morning with a bleating from the corner, and out it came running, so agile, and so so black!! ive never seen a lamb so black, not even a speck of white anywhere!! must be near full Norfolk Horn gens!! but if you look at the mother she is more like a goat !!
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Post by: morri2 on February 22, 2011, 09:54:09 pm: What a lovely ewe lamb. I hope you're going to keep her. Apparently all black sheep are lucky and every flock should have one!! The mother does look like a bit like a goat, but I think its just because of her horns. :wave:
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Post by: faith0504 on February 22, 2011, 10:17:47 pm: she is sooooooooooo cute :wave:
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Post by: kanisha on February 22, 2011, 10:29:12 pm: its a GIRL!!

congratulations, and black the best colour!
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Post by: Cinderhills on February 22, 2011, 10:47:00 pm: Love it!
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Post by: scotelf on February 22, 2011, 11:15:16 pm: aww, lovely ;D
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Post by: Tilly on February 23, 2011, 07:57:52 am: ---- :o ;D :sheep:
She is a little cracker ----I always think a black sheep in the flock brings you :hshoe:.
What breeding is she Andy?
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Post by: Rosemary on February 23, 2011, 09:11:50 am: She's lovely! Will she stay black? Our Ryelands are born black but change colour as they get older.
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Post by: ellisr on February 23, 2011, 09:51:02 am: I wish I had a black lamb......it is adorable
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Post by: andywalt on February 23, 2011, 10:20:34 am: yes I will keep her, the breed well, the ewe mother is suppose to be suffolk x Norfolk Horn, the ram in the flock before I brought them was a norfolk horn, I think whats happened is the ewe mother is half norfolk horn but the previous owner breed her with her ram norfolk horn father so the lamb is 3/4 Norfolk horn and a small percentage suffolk, im surprised it wasnt malformed !!! generally the lambs have been white with black mottling, as they get older the fleece turns white and they keep black faces and feet !! I think it will stay black im sure as mother has stayed dark brown.
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Post by: ellisr on February 23, 2011, 10:34:06 am: I would love some dark wool to play with when I'm felting. I must think about getting some dark sheep.
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Post by: jack on February 23, 2011, 11:00:05 am: Quote from: andywalt on February 22, 2011, 09:30:26 pm
I was met early this morning with a bleating from the corner, and out it came running, so agile, and so so black!! ive never seen a lamb so black, not even a speck of white anywhere!! must be near full Norfolk Horn gens!! but if you look at the mother she is more like a goat !!

Beautiful little baby what great luck to have one like this and what a special pet to keep and Mum does look more like a goat. :)
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Post by: OhLaLa on February 23, 2011, 12:05:37 pm: Definitely a keeper. Very cute.

:sheep:
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Post by: sabrina on February 23, 2011, 12:59:15 pm: Lovely little lamb, mum looks as if she is giving you a dirty look ;D
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Post by: waterhouse on February 23, 2011, 08:08:45 pm: We bought some commercial crosses last year to get started with including a black ewe throwback that looks mostly Black Welsh Mountain - spindly legs and a turbocharger. The farmer sold her cheap because she was never going to make much for him but Alice is a real character. We're going to borrow a Ram (has to be a bit smaller than a Dartmoor) and see what comes out next year.
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Post by: andywalt on February 23, 2011, 08:50:26 pm: Yes the ewe mother (Morag) is definately annoyed with me, shes very wild, if I get a bout 4 meters from her she stamps her feet very agressively....I was talking to a sheperdess about 6 months ago who saw Morag and she just said GOSH which I cant remember what it means, some kind of odd thro back with the gens that you can get, has any one heard of this ......GOSH ?????
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Post by: Rosemary on February 23, 2011, 09:03:29 pm: Quote from: ellisr on February 23, 2011, 10:34:06 am
I would love some dark wool to play with when I'm felting. I must think about getting some dark sheep.

Can send you some coloured Ryeland if you want to try it. I'm sure we've got some of last years clip left. PM me if you do.
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Post by: MrsJ on February 23, 2011, 09:07:43 pm: She's beautiful!
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Post by: darkbrowneggs on February 23, 2011, 09:53:04 pm: I love the names ;D ;D
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Post by: Tilly on February 23, 2011, 09:57:31 pm: Hi Andy

------ GoSh: a web-based database for goat and sheep EST sequences.
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Post by: andywalt on February 24, 2011, 11:07:31 am: Sure I can send out some coloured fleece mayish time,

Tilly the gosh thing, Im very confused now !!!
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Post by: Tilly on February 24, 2011, 01:07:41 pm: --- Don`t Know more than that ??? :dunce: --- something to do with recessive genes in sheep/goats .
Probably more info on internet
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Post by: andywalt on February 24, 2011, 06:55:36 pm: ohh over my head and the fence !!!

Summary: The GoSh database is a collection of 58 990 Capra hircus and Ovis aries expressed sequence tags. A perl pipeline was prepared to process sequences, and data were collected in a MySQL database. A PHP-based web interface allows browsing and querying the database. Putative single nucleotide polymorphism (SNP) detection, as well as search to repeats were performed, and links to external related resources were provided. Sequences were annotated against three different databases and an algorithm was implemented to create statistics of the distribution of retrieved homologous ontologies in the Gene Ontology categories. The GoSh database is a repository of data and links related to goat and sheep expressed genes.
Availability: The GoSh database is available at http://www.itb.cnr.it/gosh/ (http://www.itb.cnr.it/gosh/)
Contact: [email protected]
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Post by: TheCaptain on February 24, 2011, 07:19:09 pm: I love the fact that I've got absolutely no idea what that means, even though I've read it four times!!! Ah, smallholding is a learning experience everyday!!!
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Post by: andywalt on February 24, 2011, 07:29:20 pm: Yes baffling to the 1000th degree, does anyone have any idea? can you educate us?
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Post by: Anke on February 24, 2011, 08:56:20 pm: Quote from: TheCaptain on February 24, 2011, 07:19:09 pm
I love the fact that I've got absolutely no idea what that means, even though I've read it four times!!! Ah, smallholding is a learning experience everyday!!!

I have got tears in my eyes from laughing so hard.... my sentiments exactly!
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Post by: jaykay on February 24, 2011, 09:08:52 pm: Very nice ;D
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Post by: andywalt on February 24, 2011, 10:18:43 pm: ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ??? ??? ??? ??? ??? ??? ??? ??? ??? ??? ??? ??? ??? ??? ??? ??? ??? ??? ??? ??? ??? ??? ??? :goat: :goat: :goat: :goat: :goat: :goat: :goat: :goat: :goat: :goat: :goat: :goat: :goat: :goat: :goat: :goat: :goat: :goat: :goat: :goat: :goat: :goat: :goat: :goat: :goat: :goat: :sheep: :sheep: :sheep: :sheep: :sheep: :sheep: :sheep: :sheep: :sheep: :sheep: :sheep:confusssssedddddd slowlyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy goinggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggg madddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddd
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Post by: TheCaptain on February 24, 2011, 10:21:14 pm: Quote from: andywalt on February 24, 2011, 06:55:36 pm
Sequences were annotated against three different databases and an algorithm was implemented to create statistics of the distribution of retrieved homologous ontologies in the Gene Ontology categories.

That isn't even English!!!!
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Post by: andywalt on February 24, 2011, 10:25:04 pm: Ohhh I totaly agree with that.......... NOT !!!!!!! ;D ;D ;D ;D
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Post by: waterhouse on February 27, 2011, 09:35:38 am: Scientific terminology is actually very precise and specialist English not intended to be understood by the outsider.

Kanisha and Fleecewife were using this dialect about Hebrideans a while back
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Post by: kanisha on February 27, 2011, 09:50:23 am: LOL OK I confess I book marked the site! :-[ :-[ :-[ I thought it was very useful!