Coat color patterns

Accepted colors

• Agouti

• Bay (uniform reddish-brown)

• Black (brownish-black)

• Black (uniform black, black-black)

• Black bellied & bay (reddish-brown)

• Black bellied & bay (reddish-brown) - with white markings

• Black bellied & brown

• Black bellied & brown - with white markings

• Black bellied & chocolate

• Black bellied & chocolate - with white markings

• Black bellied & dark brown

• Black bellied & dark brown - with white markings

• Black bellied & fawn

• Black bellied & fawn - with white markings

• Black bellied & light brown

• Black bellied & light brown - with white markings

• Brown (uniform brown)

• Fawn (uniform)

• Light red (uniform light red)

• Piebald (Patched) Black - with white markings

• Piebald (Spotted) Black - with white markings

• Piebald (Spotted) White - with black markings

• Piebald (White with black head)

• Red (uniform red)

• Reddish yellow

• Skewbald (Patched) Red/lightred/fawn/brown - with white markings

• Skewbald (Spotted) Red/lightred/fawn/brown - with white markings

• Skewbald (Spotted) White - with red/lightred/fawn/brown markings

• Skewbald (White with red/brown head)

• Tan bellied & bay (reddish-brown)

• Tan bellied & bay (reddish-brown) - with white markings

• Tan bellied & brown - with white markings

• Tan bellied & chocolate

• Tan bellied & chocolate - with white markings

• Tan bellied & dark brown

• Tan bellied & dark brown - with white markings

• Tan bellied & eumelanin-black

• Tan bellied & fawn

• Tan bellied & fawn - with white markings

• Tan bellied & light brown

• Tan bellied & light brown - with white markings

• Tan bellied & pheomelanin-brown

• Tan white bellied & black - with white markings

• Tan white bellied & brown - with white markings

• Tan white bellied & eumelanin-black

• Tan white bellied & pheomelanin-brown

• Tan white bellied & pheomelanin-reddish yellow

• Tricolor (white + Red/lightred/fawn/brown + black)

• White (uniform white)

• Wild color (dark)

• Wild color (dark) - with white markings

• Wild color (normal)

• Wild color (normal) - with white markings

The chestnut-colored drawing is not prevalent in the African Djallonké population, and is less widespread than the predominantly uniform white sheep. This while in Europe it is the most common color. Black bellied chocolate, black bellied light brown, black bellied dark brown, and fully black are most common in West-Europe. Black Bellied colored sheep can be found in eg. Guinea Bissau, Ghana, Cameroon, Rep.Congo.

Types of melanin pigments

• Absence of pigment (Uniform white)
• Eumelanin
• Pheomelanin