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Description: One perfectly reasonable approach to breeding for colored wool is to start with colored sheep and breed them together, selecting the colored offspring and breeding them to colored sheep. It’s a little like pulling the lever on a slot machine – with the genetics safely hidden inside a box, you just get what you get. This approach will get you some colored sheep – maybe a lot, maybe a few – and you might get a bunch of white sheep that are “hiding” colors from you. Your journey will include surprises and some frustrations or you may hit the ball out of the park. This article discusses how genetics works for color and how you can figure out which sheep to breed for specific color results.