[Jacob-list] Hatch line

[Edd Bissell]

At 12:47 PM 7/17/01 -0400, Wayne & Edie Van Valkenburg wrote:
>Ed,
>Where did the Hatch line originate from?  where did he get them?  Is
>that known.
>Have you noticed that the east coast Jacob look different from the west
>coast?
>Edie.
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Well, since you asked the question and I had not talked to Geoff in about a 
year [he sent a trailer out here and got all of my Churro-Hair sheep when I 
decided to downsize] I just got thru talking to him.  He got his first 5 
ewes from Cave Junction and Medford, Oregon - and he said Bill Herd had 
told him that they originally came from The Catskill Game Farm in NY - 
Jeugen Schultz[spelling??] was the owner and was an importer - primarily 
from South Africa. He then got a ram from Dave Hale in Mo - Hale had the 
Cape sale and a drive thru game farm and this ram had forward growing horns 
and was pounding the cars as they drove thru!!!!  He used him until the old 
Hatch ram was born from that flock.  He also bought everything that he 
could at the Cape thru the following years and any other ewes that he could 
find.  He outbid Luther and I on EVERYTHING that came thru the Cape - and 
this was sometime in the mid to late 70s he said.  Then he bought 40 plus 
from Bill Reynolds - said the coloration was bad to him [fadeing and off 
colored] BUT they had the nicest and most consistent horns he had ever run 
across - He said he culled heavily on these ewes but said he had to buy the 
whole bunch to get want he wanted - He used the old Hatch ram he said for 
years - he said he kept praying that he would not break a horn [he was the 
only ram in the field with 60 or so ewes] = he said he knew with value was 
nothing if a horn was broken and he thrrew exactly what he wanted.  I paid 
him $500 for him when I got him. And almost backed out!!!  Which would have 
been a bad mistake on my part if I had because he threw exactly what I 
wanted also. So that is the Hatch story  -

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Edd Bissell
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