Colour and marks

Imbi Jäetma, Lahemaalammas; Katrin Kabun

Annika Michelson, HAMK University of Applied Sciences.

Estonian native sheep are white, black and grey. Many black sheep change color into brown during the summer or by age into grey. Many sheep have a mixture of these colors. The sheep that turn grey do it in two main ways

    • either so that black turn gradually brown and then grey.
    • a black animal turn at once from the root grey

There are also many different marks on the animals. No research on the marks have been done yet.

Colors of Estonian native sheep

Marks of Estonian native sheep