[Jacob-list] Opinion regarding "true Jacob"

[Linda]

Very well said, Mark.

Peggy, I find it very disturbing that a Jacob breeder would say such a thing.  I would have to think that it was not a breeder that belonged to either JSBA or JSC and certainly not one that ever registered.

Linda
 
www.patchworkfibers.com
Registered Jacob Sheep, Angora Rabbits, Handspun Yarn


> Are we competitive or cynical?  I prefer to think that we are

> critical.  Anytime we look at prospective new flock members we

> become very critical.  My picture perfect Jacob has four bold

> symmetric horns with nice eye and muzzle patches to match the nice

> knee patches and random black spots all over the rest of the white

> petite body.  I will not put a two horn or white legged Jacobs into

> my flock.  But, this is just a critical preference of what I want

> in my flock.  To claim that somebody else's sheep are impure or

> second class Jacobs for these reasons would just simply be wrong. 

> People used to say the same things about red Angus and Holsteins. 

> The other thing that we should all strive for (have to keep

> reminding myself of this) is we have to be diplomatic.  My critical

> comments should never be spoken is such a way that they be taken as

> an insult.  We also have to be thick skinned enough to forgive or

> ignore those that fail the diplomacy test.

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

>> From: Marguerite Van Beek

>> To: jacob-list

>> Sent: Tuesday, June 03, 2008 8:54 AM

>> Subject: [Jacob-list] Opinion regarding "true Jacob"

>>

>>

>> To all Jacob Breeders,.

>>

>> Do any of you think that a Jacob that does not have leg markings

>> is not a "true Jacob".  That they are a crossbred.  At the MSWF a

>> Jacob breeder approached some people that we looking and admiring

>> our flock can up to them started a conversation and stated that

>> our Jacobs are not "true Jacobs" because we have some that don't

>> have leg markings.  I guess the gentlemen didn't know that my

>> daughter was standing right there when he said it.

>> Are we as a group becoming so critical in what consider a "true

>> Jacob" should be?  I have full siblings in my flock where one has

>> leg marking and another does not.  So, the one without is not a

>> true Jacob even thou he carriers that same gene pool as the one

>> that does.  What is going on with our group?  Last year it was

>> the two horn should be culled, this year it is the leg markings. 

>> Gee, that would eliminate a lot of Jacobs.  Is this the path we

>> are heading into.  Have we become that competitive or cynical,

>> which is it? 

>>

>> Peggy

>> Ridgecroft Farms

>>

>>

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