What are Unregistered Painted Desert Sheep?
To register a Painted Desert Sheep in the Painted Desert Sheep Society, Registration Photographs must show more than one color, with one color being white, and sometimes, unfortunately, the color is so minimal that photographs can not pick up the second color. Also, sometimes the Mouflon crosses that produce Painted Desert Sheep will also produce solid black sheep or solid white sheep. Even Painted Desert Sheep with several generations of “spots” in the background can produce solid black or solid white sheep or even sheep with brown and black coloring and no white color. If both parents are registered Painted Desert Sheep a hardship registration is granted in such situations. The solid black sheep are sometimes called Black Hawaiians while the solid white ones can be considered Texas Dall; however, some folks who breed these sheep keep their flocks of Texas Dall and Black Hawaiians “pure” by not permitting the sheep with known recent potential to produce spots to be introduced into the
