The oldest active breeding flock of registered Icelandic Sheep in California

 

 

- Coding Examples
The Icelandic Sheep Breeders of North America (ISBONA) has devised a color coding system that may voluntarily be added to the animals name and flock number when registering with the Canadian Livestock Records Corp. Here is the system:
Base Colors
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Black Solid Polled
B5P		 Moorit Solid, Horned
M5H		 Base Color Unknown, White Polled
O1P

Pattern
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(Black) Grey Solid Horned
B2H

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(Moorit) Grey Horned
M2H

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Black Badgerface Horned
B3H
 
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Moorit Badgerface Polled
M3P

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Grey Badgerface
B23H

 Sorry, no photo available

 

Moorit Grey Mouflon
M24
 
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Black Mouflon and Moorit Mouflon (both have horn buds)
B4H and M4H

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Black/Grey Mouflon Horned
B24H
 

Spotting
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Black Spotted Horned
BSH

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Moorit Spotted Polled
MSP

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Black/Grey Horned
B2H
(you can tell he's grey by the light grey nose)
 
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Moorit/Grey Polled
M2P
(the white lips reveal this lamb is grey, base color Moorit)

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Black Mouflon and Black/Grey patterns from the rear

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Two Moorit Grey lambs 
with their Moorit mom

 

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Spotted Moorit Mouflon
M4SH

 

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