Color projects

Once upon a time, I had some tri-colored Hollands. I was new to showing and thought for some reason I could figure out the color genetics overnight. Not. The tri's didn't show well and I didn't know what I was doing.

That ended the color projects until we got a broken black buck in the barn. Most of Mallo's (you can see his photo in the sidebar) offspring were black until it looked like we were going to have nothing but blacks. So we started a new color project: torts.

OK, that's a dumb joke because it wasn't long before we had a lot of torts in the barn. Along with lots of blacks.

But we decided to jump into black otters, because my genetic calculations hinted that good blacks would improve black otters. And we had some nice blacks (thanks, Mallo).

So our first Best in Show was a broken black otter junior doe. We've made some progress with the otters. But they are exclusively Timothy's project.

Now, I'm anxiously awaiting the hopeful birth of another color project as a broken tort doe, Kisses, is due soon with babies from a chestnut agouti buck, Grizzwald. I hope to get some chestnuts and add yet more color to our barn.

When tort is our color project of the year, we may not be all that adventurous... but it's a start!