[Jacob-list] Pencil points:Ticking

[Mary E Hansson]

Hi,
 
I once saw pictures of newly shorn Jacob sheep that had more like
quarter-sized (maybe even larger) dots all over their bodies.  These
were reputed to not have any black wool coming up through that area of
the body, and these spots were not just top nor just underneath----sort
of all around the sheep.  They fit into no theory I can deduce.  Any
ideas or what am I missing?  I have never laid hands on a sheep that
looked like this shorn, I must admit.  I do not believe the pictures to
be doctored, though :o)

Mary Ellen Hansson

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Subject: [Jacob-list] Pencil points:Ticking


In a message dated 4/8/02 12:33:24 AM Central Daylight Time,
rlynde at onramp113.org writes:




The ticking shows about the size of a dull pencil point..>

If freckles are present at birth and ticking is only the size of a
pencil point, what are the small spots about the size of a pencil eraser
that show up in successive shearings? Is this also ticking? I've called
it freckles.




I understand it begins very small .. like the pencil point .... but the
"pencil points" do seem to expand to eraser size.  Ticking is the one
that "turns" a black and white Jacob black and smutty over the years.
Fred 

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