[Jacob-list] Registration

[Robin Lynde]

When I first got my Jacob sheep I asked this same question and as I remember 
it opened a can of worms. At this point I think that JSBA is the only active 
registry. Someone can correct me, but I don't think that JSC has issued 
registrations in at least a few years.

By the way, this made me think about my own flock. I got the first 20 or so 
sheep from a women in CA who had kept careful pedigrees but had not 
registered her sheep. I submitted them for registration and have kept up 
with it ever since. Now that the JSBA issues pedigree information on the 
certificates  it's interesting (and a little worrisome) to see how many 
common ancestors there are when you go back only 3 generations or so. I 
think it's useful to register so that you know what you're doing when you 
breed sheep. Now that sheep are being sold across the country you might be 
surprised to get a sheep from the opposite coast and find out that the 
grandparents grew up just down the road from you.
Robin Lynde
Meridian Jacobs
Vacaville, CA
www.meridianjacobs.com
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "ARTHUR PARTRIDGE" <aztreaz at earthlink.net>
To: "jacob-list" <jacob-list at jacobsheep.com>
Sent: Thursday, February 21, 2008 11:38 AM
Subject: Re: [Jacob-list] Registration



> --Previous message:

>>For someone new to this list and relatively new to Jacobs (to sheep

>>of any breed actually!), can someone summarize how the two Jacob

>>registries are similar and different, addressing the question 'why'

>>would one register with one, the other, or both?

> =======

> Many years ago, someone locally told me that one Jacob registry was 

> "easier

> to get into" than the other one and that I should try for the easy one to

> make sure the sheep got registered.  I didn't pursue it.  I don't know if

> this is true today.  Really doesn't make much sense; except, I suppose 

> that

> the "easy" one will have more sheep registered in it.  Wouldn't the sheep

> have a higher value if they are in the registry with the higher standards

> (i.e. harder to get into)?

>

> Cathy

> Moscow, Idaho

>

>

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