[Jacob-list] No Eye Patch

[Linda]

I kinda like the ones with a big eye patch and a little eye patch.  It just seems to add a little extra personality.

When ever I think I'm focusing too much on either setting or eliminating a specific Jacob trait, I think back to about five years ago.  I was gazing at my flock, straining my arm from patting myself on the back and with a headache from squeezing my swelled head into a hat, thinking that MY flock didn't have any freckled sheep.  Boy, was I doing something right or what!  Well, you know what they say about pride.  I suddenly realized that I had very sheep with any leg or feet markings!  Selecting so aggressively against freckling had almost eliminated any sign of leg flash.  I think my flock look is abit more balanced now, but it does include sheep with freckling, missing eye patches, no leg markings, along with unfreckled fully faced and legged sheep.

Linda
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On Sun, 10 Jul 2005 09:05:52 -0400, Peaceful Valley Farm wrote:
> We have one of Jane's girls.  Perfect Spot Penelope Jane (aka
> P.J.).  She has to large eye patches, and all of the lambs that
> she's had while with us have had full eyepatches EXCEPT for one ram
> lamb.  He had an eye patch on one side, and a tenny little spot on
> the other side.  His sister Rachel has two nice eye patches.  And
> this year's ram lambs from P.J. both have nice eyepatches (Although
> this years had a father who has a LOT of pigment on his face.) 
> Matthew
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