[Jacob-list] Mid west Jacobs

[Linda]

I asked Edd at AGM and he said as far he knew, he had the rights to the tape and we would be welcome to copy it onto DVD and distribute copies as we saw fit.  There was some talk of him rounding up other tapes to have copied to DVD.  I think Beth Jones had volunteered Tony for the job? 

Edd's Edd! Great stories, full of energy and a delight to be around.  It was a real pleasure to meet Luther for the first time.  He was honored with a life time achievement award  from JSBA for his 20 years of serving as in inspector.  He says he'll be getting Jacobs again in a couple years, so we hope be seeing some Hardy Hills again.  And speaking of registration - I wish Edd had registered longer.  He had some wonderful primitive sheep and it would have been nice to have more in the flock books.

Linda


 
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Registered Jacob Sheep, Angora Rabbits, Handspun Yarn


> I have Anita's post on a backup of an old computer, somewhere. 

> Anita's letter has been posted here before, do we have archives on

> this list?  I also have a copy of Edd's tape on VHS.  I am afraid

> to watch it for fear that my VCR may eat it.  I also hate to start

> naming names for fear that I will insult somebody by omission. 

> Ingrid Painter's book also is a good source of earlier Jacobs.  I

> might be able to find Edd's tape if anybody wanted to make DVD's

> off of it.  Would that be legal, are there any copyright issues? 

> Does JSBA still have the tape available?   By the way, How are Edd

> and Luther doing?

>

>> ----- Original Message -----

>> From: Linda

>> To: Mark Essen ; jacob-list at jacobsheep.com

>> Sent: Thursday, February 21, 2008 5:05 PM

>> Subject: Re: [Jacob-list] Mid west Jacobs

>>

>>

>> Not only do we remember the video, Edd was kind enough to come

>> speak at our JSBA Annual General Meeting last August, along with

>> Luther Hardy. As I'm sure you know, Edd quit registering after a

>> few years. But, I sure had no problem bringing in a ram from him

>> in 2000, even though I had to put Zeppo in as FF in the flock

>> book.  I think some of us know the names of the "old timers" that

>> did so much to conserve the breed, but some newer members may

>> not.  Mark - could you just post a list for us? We shouldn't be

>> forgetting them - btw - it's probably time to post the Anita

>> Evangilista (sp) piece again about "why I love Jacobs".  It ought

>> to be posted at least once a year.  I have it somewhere if I can

>> find it.  Does anyone else have it handy?

>>

>>

>> Linda

>>

>>

>> www.patchworkfibers.com

>> Registered Jacob Sheep, Angora Rabbits, Handspun Yarn

>>

>>

>>> If any of you remember Edd Bissel's video of Jacobs in the US,

>>> it seems to me that many of them were midwest.  Edd used to

>>> talk about Dave Hale's auction in Cape Giradeau, Missouri. 

>>> There are still auctions for "exotic" animals In much of the

>>> mid-west.  Most of these auctions do not brag on (or even

>>> mention)  registration, but some of the best looking primitive

>>> type Jacobs I have seen have been at some of these auctions

>>> (some real crap is available also).  As somebody has already

>>> pointed out, you need to keep an eye on offspring for a few

>>> generations to be sure that you actually bought a jacobs.   

>>> After all, these can be the very definition of unknow

>>> background.   But a lot of people that raise jacobs want to

>>> raise pure jacobs, regardless of paperwork.  When I go to the

>>> farms of some of these people, many of them have never heard of

>>> some of the names of farms, farmers, and flocks that some of us

>>> old-timers hold in such reverence.  But they certainly have a

>>> high regard of the breed.

>>> As far as money goes, the highest prices I have ever seen go to

>>> the rams with the nicest set of four horns.  I saw a beatutiful

>>> white four horn ram sell for twelve hundred dollars.  He sold

>>> at a sale in Tennessee and then went to a hunting ranch in

>>> Texas.  Obviously they did not care that he was not pure Jacob,

>>> just that he had a nice set of horns.  I think that it would be

>>> hard for most of us to remember the last time we saw any

>>> registered Jacob sell that high.  I suspect that many people on

>>> the list do not like hunting ranches, but we have to admit that

>>> they do influence prices.  I guess that my point is that there

>>> are lots of small farms in the midwest that raise Jacobs.  We

>>> just seem not to be as apt to join the registries as some of

>>> our coastal counterpoints.  At least that is how it appears

>>> through my eyes.

>>>

>>> Mark Essen, a rampant anarchist in Missouri who is trying hard

>>> to stay out of the regisratration discussion.

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