[Jacob-list] Quilting

[Neal and Louise Grose]

Various people get have lots of opinions about this. And I am not entirely sure why some find it scandalous. It seems to be highly environmental, appearing some years in certain sheep and not in others. In our flock, it shows up in stress years as shorter, finer colored wool. Others has assured me that THAT is all wrong and that it is the white wool that comes out shorter and finer. (and surely it is a sign of crossbreeding...)

Oh, rubbish. It is undesirable. Until I hear a good biological theory for why we should cull for quilting, I am simply going to use it as one of many criteria and not get too wound up about it. 

Neal Grose
  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Susan J Martin 
  To: Sheep E-mail List 
  Sent: Wednesday, January 02, 2008 9:46 PM
  Subject: [Jacob-list] Quilting


  Just curious about quilting of the fleece of your sheep --- how do you view this?  Is it a problem worth culling for?  I have not seen a lot of it........but it can occasionally crop up and I was curious how other breeders handle this.
  Sue Martin
  Stonecroft




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