[Jacob-list] ya' know,

[Linda]

Hi Betty,

Try to stay warm and get better!  Bronchitis is no fun.  Sorry to hear about your old boy. 

But raising Jacobs is!  All my sheep are "perfect" (joke) - just in different ways.  Some are more perfect than others and some you got to get to know before you notice that they are perfect (still a joke). They are all, however, special in some way or other.  When I switched from crossbred sheep to Jacobs, Dave made the comment that he hoped the Jacobs weren't all going to be so pretty that there wouldn't be any culls for the freezer.  So far, that has not been a problem and the freezer stays pretty full. 

Hope you get to feeling better soon.

Linda


 
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On Fri, 6 Jan 2006 16:27:14 -0500, Betty Berlenbach wrote:
> if we all got our wish and got the perfect ram and perfect ewe, how
> boring lambing would be, if all the lambs looked the same...and
> with no bad ones to compare them to, the good ones wouldn't look
> quite as incredibly good, would they?  So, maybe we all ought to
> stick with what's around in the gene pool now, and stop trying to
> make "clony" sheep!!!!  I love it when I'm surprised by two
> incredibly beautiful lambs out of a not so beautiful ewe, and when
> the opposite happens, I'm not real surprised. The real question
> becomes: would you rather have a spectacular set of sheep on the
> field, who threw so-so lambs, or not so great looking flock who
> threw spectacular lambs?  Probably a mixture of each would be best! 
>  I'm turning philosophical, I guess: not much else to do when
> you're sitting around coughing out your brains with bronchitis.  On
> top of it all, my spectacular mioget shetland ram, who threw
> gorgeous lambs, about 6:1 girls to boys, appears to be dying.  He's
> nine and very frail...so, in addition to the cough, I have a death
> watch going here, planning on how to bury him in weather like
> this...the compost pile it is.

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