[Jacob-list] Opinion regarding "true Jacob"

[Marguerite Van Beek]

Linda 

The sad part is he is.  But my question is where do they get this opinion? It is not in the JSBA or JSC rule books.
I know some prefer markings some don't but it is acceptable trait.  I wanted to find out who really feels this way in our association. 

Peggy
  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Linda<mailto:patchworkfibers at alltel.net> 
  To: Mark Essen<mailto:messen at socket.net> ; jacob-list<mailto:jacob-list at jacobsheep.com> 
  Sent: Tuesday, June 03, 2008 12:52 PM
  Subject: Re: [Jacob-list] Opinion regarding "true Jacob"


  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<http://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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