|
United Horned Hair Sheep Association, Inc. |
PAINTED DESERT SHEEP BREED STANDARDS PAGE 1 |
|
PAGE 1 Contains: General Appearance; Head; Nose; Coat including Colors, Patterns and items affecting color PAGE 2 Contains: Ears; Eyes; Incisor Teeth; Neck; Shoulders and Withers; Chest; Back; Ribs and Abdomen; Bottom Line; Legs; Rump; Thigh; Twist; Udder; Scrotum; Tail; Hoof; Horns including Distance from Face, Horn Shape, Horn Length, and Horn Color; Size; Weight; Background and Heritage; Traits Required for Registration; Traits Discriminated Against; Disqualifications |
SPOTTING CATEGORIES OF THE PAINTED DESERT SHEEP Tracked in the pedigrees and printed on Registration and Recorded Certificates. Assigned by the Registrar. In picture examples, please keep in mind you are only seeing one side. Both sides are taken into consideration. |
COAT COLORS Assigned by the registrar, tracked in the pedigrees and printed on Registration Certificates |
|
|
|
|
|
THIS website is copyright May 2009 by United Horned Hair Sheep Association, Inc. Active Members of UHHSA are permitted to use information on their website to help in ethical and honest promotion and education about the breeds represented. However, a link to this website should be provided. Pictures are copyrighted by owners of the sheep pictured and permission will need to be sought to use the pictures. |
ITEMS AFFECTING COAT COLORS AND APPEARANCE OF PATTERNS |
|
Same lamb pictured above at birth and to the right at age 6 months - ROANING |
CATEGORY ONE (1): Flashy / Loud For sheep with the most colorful and eye catching spotting patterns. Very Distinctive and Flashy, with sheep having an evenly distributed amount of color, or color combinations, and white. |
CATEGORY TWO (2): Medium Flashy The next level of spotting for very colorful sheep. Sheep that have nice spotting patterns but spotting or color patterns are not as evenly distributed over the entire sheep as in Category One (1) Larger colored areas than defined smaller spots. |
CATEGORY SIX (6) Solid Solid color sheep with no white markings in any area, OR solid white sheep with no additional colored spots. If a solid color or solid white sheep is produced out of two Registered Painted Desert Sheep or one Registered and one Recorded Painted Desert Sheep, the offspring can be RECORDED with pedigrees noted and can be used as breeding stock in the Painted Desert Sheep Registry. Such sheep will be listed as Recorded and Pattern will be listed as Solid along with color on Recording Certificates. Solid colored sheep can not be inspected in (Recorded or Registered) as a Painted Desert with an unregistered or unknown sire or dam. |
CATEGORY FIVE (5) Minimal Sheep with a very minimal area of color on a white body or a minimal area of white on a colored body that shows in registration photos. |
CATEGORY THREE (3): Medium Sheep with one or more main colors and white areas highlighting it, or sheep that are mainlywhite with colored areas highlighting them |
CATEGORY FOUR (4) Medium Minimal Sheep with the body being a main color(s) with the majority of white markings mainly on head, legs or tail. Some Sheep may have minimal white markings on body as well. Or sheep that are white with minimal spotting on face legs and body. |
FROSTING |
Back of mature ram's head showing "hump" |