12-14-2006, 08:15 PM
Quote:Primvs Pavlvs:ek3kr7k3 Wrote:Matt in my research to prove to some Viking Age reenactors that there were black sheep I found out that the Hebridian breed commonly has black sheep.
Ah, well this does show that it wasn't such a rare phenotype in the past- so it's not so difficult to think that it might have been so even earlier and in other regions too. Their rarity nowadays could-well be a result of selective breeding FOR white ones.
Those paenulae are great Jef- and I'm very surprised at how difficult it is to see the hoods when down...
I agree! Most sheep I´ve met here in Sweden are dark grey! My mom and dad have sheep and sometimes they are dark enough to be almost black at least the first years. They tend to get lighter when they get older.
This might have been a red herring and if so I´m sorry!