[Jacob-list] Jacob sheep oddities

[CARL FOSBRINK]

ARTHUR PARTRIDGE <aztreaz at earthlink.net> wrote:     I have been raising Jacobs for 11 years and noticed a few characteristics
in a few lambs. Here they are, in no particular order. Has anyone noticed
pink noses turning black? I have watched two lambs I sold to a friend. 
They started out with pink noses, a big no-no among Jacob sheep, then at
about 3 or 4 months they started to show a few spots of black on their
nose. The spots grew over time, like a disease, until the nose is almost
all black. Weird. Can someone explain? I have been told this happens with pigmented nosed Jacobs. Ours all have black muzzles so can't say from experience.

Oddity number 2. I have a moorit (brown) spotted wether. This has never
happened before in all the 11 years of raising Jacobs. How common is
this?? Are they registerable? He looks like a Jacob sheep, but the spots
are brown (not black with brown tips). I am keeping him for his fiber,
60% brown and 40% white so the yarn will be a light brown. I'm happy, but
this probably means there is something else in him besides Jacob, maybe
not? I will watch, maybe those brown spots will turn black like the pink
noses turned black, but I doubt it will happen. Anyone know of any moorit
Jacobs? At least some of the Jacobs that came from the Chicago Zoo were what is referred to as chocolate lilacs.  Dr. Fell from around Terra Haute, Indiana got some of them from the zoo and then Bill Reynolds from Berne, Indiana got Jacobs from Dr. Fell. Bill Reynolds later sold a large number of these to Hatch and others too of course. Edd Bissell says they all had huge horns.

Cathy
just wondering......
Moscow, Idaho

Carl & Judy Fosbrink
  Seymour, Indiana
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