elodieunderglass:

king-the-pathetic:

amber-tortoiseshell:

a sheep looking into the camera. the right side of his body is black, the left is gray, with a straight, almost perfectly ventrical line between them.ALT
the same sheep just after shearing. the skin under the gray side is almost white, revealing a very drastic color difference between the sides. on the back, the dividing line isn't straight but sharply zip-zappingALT
same sheep from a different angleALT
the genetic test's results say that many genes have different alleles on the two sides, revealing that moat likely this is indeed a case of chimerism.ALT

“With genetic test results back from U.C. Davis Laboratories of toe-hair samples from each side of his body, I am excited to share that this sheep

🌟 IS INDEED a CHIMERA 🌟

His black mouflon side is a genetically different individual from his black gray side. The lab ran the test twice just to be sure!

Oh but wait, THERE IS MORE!

He is ALSO a she!

The black mouflon side is male.

The black gray side is female!

What I can tell you beyond these test results, is that this beautiful creature successfully bred four solid patterned ewes this winter that produced a total of 9 lambs, of which all were either solid pattern or mouflon pattern; 5 rams and 4 ewes. ”

Source: Grand Valley Icelandics

Initially I thought the zig zag between light and dark along the spine was just the lighting but no! That’s the split in coat colours!

Thank you so much @draconym ! Look at those differences!