WyoWool
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Is there an easy way to determine Black Silver Marten vs Black Otter on Wooly babies?
We are just venturing into more tan patterns with our Jersey Woolies. We purchased a REW buck that genetically has quite a bit of silver marten as well as sable marten in his lineage. We bred to a black otter, and to our excitement we got 7 babies. One bun is blue otter, the rest are...
Well they’re all black tan pattern babies. They aren’t sable, they’re black. I can see a couple have light fawn/creamy colored triangles, but definitely not the *orange* of black otter mom. One baby has just the slightest pale brown whisper for a triangle. They all have ticking on their flanks, but again we aren’t really able to discern if it’s white or incredibly light fawn color even in natural full sunlight. Eye rings are pale creamy color. Markings are pretty crisp on all but two, with two having quite a bit of facial nose mealiness/ticking.
We can’t tell if it’s just because they’re woolies that this is so hard? In any other breed, black otter is easily discernible from silver marten for us.
This is the first breeding for this pair. We are considering culling from our herd because of these wonky colors.
We are just venturing into more tan patterns with our Jersey Woolies. We purchased a REW buck that genetically has quite a bit of silver marten as well as sable marten in his lineage. We bred to a black otter, and to our excitement we got 7 babies. One bun is blue otter, the rest are...
Well they’re all black tan pattern babies. They aren’t sable, they’re black. I can see a couple have light fawn/creamy colored triangles, but definitely not the *orange* of black otter mom. One baby has just the slightest pale brown whisper for a triangle. They all have ticking on their flanks, but again we aren’t really able to discern if it’s white or incredibly light fawn color even in natural full sunlight. Eye rings are pale creamy color. Markings are pretty crisp on all but two, with two having quite a bit of facial nose mealiness/ticking.
We can’t tell if it’s just because they’re woolies that this is so hard? In any other breed, black otter is easily discernible from silver marten for us.
This is the first breeding for this pair. We are considering culling from our herd because of these wonky colors.
