[jaykay]

Yes, there are various 'modifiers', just to confuse the issue further 

And if you think this is bad, or you want a brain-workout, try chicken plumage 

[Mallows Flock]

That is very very similar to what her fleece looked like a month or so ago colour-wise but not as long!!!!!!!
I have photos of her dad...one when he was a youngster and one which is only a head shot....will hunt it out and post it in a mo!!!
This is all fascinating stuff!!!

[Mallows Flock]

Right... here are 2 photos of him when he was about 10 months old....

[Mallows Flock]

This is the mum this April (aged 4) and the lamb in question when she was a couple of weeks old. Her nose only got that white ring round it during gestation...then it goes again not long after!!!

[kanisha]

I am no expert on shetland patterns ( ouessants are a lot simpler) but it looks to me as if the lamb is grey and the dad almost looks like there is blue ( I didn't think shetlands had blue pattern?) maybe grey and Katmoget?

[jaykay]

Dad is a grey katmoget, which makes sense from his pedigree. It's sort of palely expressed - the suggestion is that there's a 'pale katmoget' gene as well as a 'katmoget' ones, so perhaps he's that. Certainly he's not as definitely marked as my grey katmogets.

Mum is showing a 'katmollet' face there - genetically I have no idea what that is, neither has the paper I was reading.

The lamb looks like a grey katmoget, but with her dad's paler version of it. See how she's darker underneath. But that's not quite right as she has her mum's katmollet face......

Here's my uncomplicatedly-grey-katmoget as a newborn lamb

[Mallows Flock]

LOL... so basically, I just have complicated sheep...that figures! LOL!
I will get a good close up picture of lambkin (Ursula) and a picture deep into her fleece. This is fascinating but very confusing!
 

[Crofterloon]

I had a fawn katmoget it was light on top but fawn underneath. Different to yours.
The Grey is light grey on top black underneath.
 
 

[colliewoman]

Apparently "splodgy" is not approved terminology either 

Fleckett?




I just love the name for that marking type!

[colliewoman]

You need to go see Mrs B over the ford


She had for a long time, moorit katmogets and greys, plus a host of other varieties


She managed to ID the markings of my odd lamb. Turned out to be moget faced which I had never heard of!

[jaykay]

I think one of my katmogets is really mogget-faced, ie the pattern only shows on the face and she's not a different colour underneath

[Mallows Flock]

You need to go see Mrs B over the ford


She had for a long time, moorit katmogets and greys, plus a host of other varieties


She managed to ID the markings of my odd lamb. Turned out to be moget faced which I had never heard of!

Don... the mother of all my lambs are Mrs B's bred ewe's.... I have emailed her pics. She thinks the fawn katmogets/Moorit katmogets will be grey as loads of hers start out brown but lose it and turn grey.
I am gonna take the black faced/blacked legged ones over to her after the show to see if she can decipher her colouration. I try and avoid Mrs B tbh.... everytime our paths cross I end up poorer money-wise but richer Shetland flock-size wise! Hahaha! I really MUST close my flock but I keep seeing more little fleecy-gorgeousnesses that want to come home with me. My name is Lisa and I am a sheepaholic!

[colliewoman]

Where do you think my guys came form???


I thought that might be where yours were from, she breeds such a lovely 'type'. I used to help her out and graze my first sheep with her when her flock numbered in the hundreds and never saw such pattern/colour combinations

[Mallows Flock]

LOL... she said you had helped her in the past... I can just imagine the pair of you... as mad as a box of frogs! LOL! She is really lovely... always has a mug of coffee on offer and its lovely to see a sheep 'farmer' who adores each and every one of her sheep. And her place is gorgeous.
I keep telling her we need a pair of handsome, fit, DIY experts to do all the chores we can't do/hate doing i.e fencing! LOL!
 

[Mallows Flock]

Dad is a grey katmoget, which makes sense from his pedigree. It's sort of palely expressed - the suggestion is that there's a 'pale katmoget' gene as well as a 'katmoget' ones, so perhaps he's that. Certainly he's not as definitely marked as my grey katmogets.

Mum is showing a 'katmollet' face there - genetically I have no idea what that is, neither has the paper I was reading.

The lamb looks like a grey katmoget, but with her dad's paler version of it. See how she's darker underneath. But that's not quite right as she has her mum's katmollet face......

Here's my uncomplicatedly-grey-katmoget as a newborn lamb

I want that lamb!!!!