[Jacob-list] cutting back at ISeeSpots Farm

[Linda]

I'm curious as to how many breeders would consider a white eye patch (or, as I call it, no eye patch) a factor for culling - all else being acceptable, of course.  I used a ram with no eye patch on one side for a couple of years and did not find that the trait took over.  As an experiment, I bred him to a daughter that also had a missing patch.  Both ram and daughter were very lightly marked, had one missing eye patch and one teeny, tiny eye patch.  I know it's only one instance and not a scientific study by any means, but the resulting lamb was one of the most "ideally" marked lambs I've had - 45/55, big eye patches, knees, hocks, etc.  It's quite possible that if I had continued to inbreed the ram, I'd have ended up with with a flock look that focused on a lack of eye patches.   The ram added things to my flock and I was happy to have had him.  He didn't seem to pass on his missing eye patch to the majority of his offspring and, thank goodness, did not pass on his incredibly horrible personality :-)

I'm probably abit biased, as I've gotten fond of Inga :-)

Linda
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On Mon, 4 Jul 2005 16:52:48 -0700 (PDT), Mary Hansson wrote:
> Hi all,
 Inga has a cull ram lamb with a white eye
> patch (Those are not sold as breeding stock at my place!).
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