Neither did I, until Saturday.
I happened to think about a black junior doe I have while at the show on Greensboro. Since I was standing next to Ms. DQ Queen herself, Kitty Lynch, I described the doe and finished it off with "it almost looks like she's a silver fox."
"That's because she's silvered," Kitty said, nodding.
You could have knocked me over with a feather.
Apparently this is a product of an outcross I did a while back. The animal's granddaughter is this lovely little doe, Nova, who I nearly sold at a younger age. Now I'm glad I didn't, as I would have hated to unwittingly passed this on to someone!
I noticed that as a younger junior, Nova had an excess of scattered white hairs at the base of her ears. I thought it was just an unfortunate thing. I had planned to keep an eye on it and do a test breeding to a very clean buck.
As time went on, I noticed she was getting more and more scattered whites, until it began to appear that there was something very different going on here.
Note the white hairs distributed through her wool? The longer, wispy gray wool is her baby coat. I imagine that by the time she fully molts, her silvering will be even more pronounced.
The doe won't get to stay around, since unfortunately the silvering is undesirable.
-Kristen
2 comments:
Ha. That's something new... silver fox jersey woolies. lol =P
haha I know! Want her? :P You can work on the COD!
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