[Jacob-list] generations...

[Zach Oaster]

Actually, the ram I had considered was Unzicker Captain himself... who
by all accounts is a proven great ram... but C generation...

So I guess at this point we've heard from several people who advocate
for caring less about generations... Is there anyone out there who
would advocate strongly for moving generations forward? I mean, the
generational registration is there for a reason right? Hypothetically,
if one buys/breeds good sheep AND advances the generations of
registered sheep, isn't that good for the breed as a whole? If my goal
is to proliferate and advance the Jacob as a breed (since they are
"threatened"), wouldn't encouraging solid generational breeding be
good?  ...or would it simply move the Jacob closer to a commercial
standardization (which most would label a bad thing, including me).

Could someone with a strong opinion toward positive generational
breeding give some insight as to how to maintain the uniqueness of the
breed at the same time as advancing generations?

Thanks everyone!

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On Sat, Dec 5, 2009 at 8:14 PM, Linda <patchworkfibers at windstream.net> wrote:

> I sure wouldn't limit my gene pool to only D and above animals. The first

> thing I look at when I get my flock book is the FF listing. Some of the

> animals registered as FF might be auction sheep with no known background -

> but some might be concentrated Lesseau via Fine Fettle or Fieldwood via

> Culloden. I certainly was happy to add a Yakob-Tson ram to my flock back in

> 2000, even though I had to register him as FF. The Reynold's flock has

> recently come back to JSBA and are coming in as FF.

> At this point in my breeding, I probably wouldn't go with an FF ram unless

> the breeder had kept records (with pictures - especially of the maternal

> line).I like to know whatever I can about the background of my breeding

> stock. You are talking about a C generation ram, which I gather from Betty's

> post is an Unzicker Captain son. Nice lines with plenty of information

> available.

> I have a beautiful F generation ewe from Gary. I bought her because she is a

> nice ewe in all respects. I would have bought her if she had been several

> generations down.

>

> Linda

>

> Hello all,

>

> My wife Lindsay and I recently started our flock of jacobs with 3 ewes

> from Gary Anderson. Two of them are E generation, and one is D. Their

> lambs in the spring will all be E (they are being bred right now to a

> D generation ram on-loan from Gary).

>

> Lasell Bartlet and I were chatting about the value of moving the

> generations forward vs. just breeding good sheep. Lasell put it this

> way, "...for some it might certainly be a selling point -- but not

> sure what exactly it proves"... she talked about how she had been

> breeding good sheep for years, and only recently started to register

> some of them. She posed the question, which I will now pass along to

> the experts here in the group, "what might be the value of E (or

> later) generation versus FF generation Jacobs."

>

> The reason the conversation started in the first place was because I

> was hesitant to buy a really nice C generation ram from Lasell because

> it would "set back" the offspring of my ewes (generationally...

> otherwise, the ram is awesome). If my goal is to responsibly breed

> good sheep that are continually bettering the breed, should I concern

> myself with generation?

>

> Thanks in advance for your insight.

>

> PS... Lasell approves of me asking the question with her name

> attached... she was going to ask if I didn't.

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