[AlpacaTalk] Re: silver spot vs white spot
Hi Shari,
When a spot appears on an alpaca that has not previously been there,
especially on the neck, consider that this MAY have come from an
injury, skin issue, or something other than a genetic color spot.
Males often "fight" and play and bite each other on the neck in their
alpaca games. Fighting teeth (or not) can make a bite that the owner
does not know about because it is way under a lot of fiber. Later the
fiber from that spot MAY lack pigment as it grows out due to the
injury. I have no way of determining if this is what happened to your
male, but it is something to consider as a possibility. May be an
environmental occurrence rather than a genetic one.
But let's say it IS a genetic thing. That your male was born with a
white spot. The reason that people care about this is because it means
he is carrying the white spotting gene. If an animal carrying the
white spotting gene is bred with another animal carrying the white
spotting gene, you have a chance of creating a blue-eyed white alpaca.
Since this is not really a desired outcome, some people will shy away
from this. BUT all you have to do is breed an alpaca with the white
spotting gene to solid colored alpacas with no spots and you will be
fine, shouldn't have blue eyed whites.
I am no expert on this, just sharing what I learned from Andy
Merriweather at a recent seminar of his. And he is an expert on this.
Here's a post I wrote on the White Spotting Gene after attending his
class: http://www.alpacafa
This spot doesn't have to affect the breeding career of your male.
Regards,
Katy
Katy Spears
Fairhope Alpacas
Alpaca Farmgirl
www.alpacafarmgirl.
--- In AlpacaTalk@yahoogro
>
> I have a TB boy that has one silver spot at the base of his neck at
> his shoulders. it is definitely silver and not white. color checked it
> with black and white paper as well as a fleece color chart. his sire
> is light fawn. his mother is DB with no white. his full brother is
> medium fawn with a black spot in the same exact place. per ARI color
> patterns he is registered as "solid true black". but obviously to be
> honest i can't say he doesn't have another color on his body. what if
> any impact does this have on him as a breeding male?
>
> Shari Carlson
> Shai-J Criations, LLC
> 153 Meetinghouse Lane
> Ledyard, CT 06339
> www.alpacastreet.
>
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