Information: Colors and Markings
The Whole Main Colors:
1. White
2. Greys to Black - from light to dark
3. Browns - from light to dark
4. Light Grey
5. Musket - light greyish-brown
6. Emsket - dusky bluish-grey
7. Fawn
8. Shaela - dark steely-grey
9. Mioget - light moorit (yellowish-brown)
10. Black
11. Moorit - between fawn and dark reddish brown
12. Dark Brown
Shetland Markings:
Bersugget - irregular patches of different colors, irregular in nature
Bielset - a complete band of different color circling the neck
Bioget - either a white or dark back, with sides and belly of an opposite color
Blaeget - wool color that goes from dark to light from the skin to the tips
Blaget - white base color, spotted with peppering of dark spots
Blettet - head marked with white spots on nose and top of head
Bleset - either dark stripe with light background, or opposite down the forehead
Brandet - stripes of another color across the body
Bronget - chest color lighter than dark body, or the opposite
Flecket - white body with large patches of darker color ("Holstein looking")
Fronet - body with black spots with white head and black patches around the eyes
Gulmoget - dark body with light colored legs, belly, and up the chest
Ilget - white with different colored spots
Iset - dark color wool with lots of white fibers throughout
Katmoget - light colored body wool with dark belly an legs and moget face
Katmollet - head marking of light colored nose and jaws
Kraiget - neck is a different color from the rest of the body
Kranset - face marking with dark base wool and white around eyes and neck
Krunet - dark colored face with white patch on top of the head
Marlit - entire sheep is multi-colored throughout the body, legs, neck and head
Moget - patches of either light or dark wool around the eyes, mouth and ears
Mirkface - face marking, white with dark patches
Mullit - white with dark nose and jaws or the opposite
Sholmet - colored wool throughout with all white face
Skeget - stripes of different color on the side of the animal
Smirslet - dark base wool color with white wool around the face head and neck
Sokket - the legs are a different color than the body
Sponget - light or dark colored base wool with small spots in the opposite color
Snaelit - light colored body wool with a white face
Yuglet - dark or light colored body with opposite colored patches around the eyes.
