on 12/1/01 1:59 pm, Holly at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> I've been told of, and have seen samples of wool from, Shetland sheep
> who change color seasonally (not due to stress, nutritional or
> otherwise, or the normal color changes of maturing), and therefore have
> agouti-like bands on their wool.
Just checked and ...
Each time we have seen this in our flock or other we have found subclinical
copper defficiency ... (may be brought on by too much sulfur)
There were some good pix on the website for Dutch Fair Isle flock of
Shetlands showing what they had .. took ages to track it down to copper.
So Agouti? beyond me ... could be but this is what we found
Robin
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Robin and Margaret McEwen-King at Middletown Farm, Scotland.
The home of Galtress Shetlands & Tamworth/Berkshire Pigs
http://www.mcewen-king.co.uk
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