[Jacob-list] {Jacob-L} In Memory of a very Special Jacob Ewe

[SovreignFarms at aol.com]

Thank you very much for your kind words.
 
Sharon Lehrke
Sovreign Farms
FL
 
 
In a message dated 8/18/2012 5:08:34 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time,  
patchworkfibers at windstream.net writes:

So sorry to hear about  Freedom's passing. Her contributions to the breed 
will be long  remembered.

Linda
On 8/18/2012 12:14 AM, _SovreignFarms at aol.com_ 
(mailto:SovreignFarms at aol.com)  wrote:


Hello everyone
It is with great sadness our family mourns the loss  of BLUE EWE FREEDOM a 
few days ago. A very special sheep with tons of  character & personality who 
came to us in her later years.  We were  thrilled to have her, and 
seriously miss her calling to us each  morning.  
 
Special thanks to Shari Staines (Never Winter Farm) for  allowing Freedom 
to join us. Everyone can be assured she thoroughly  loved her life here.  
Always interested in visitors & insisting on  meeting anyone who came to the 
farm.  Very Intelligent she figured out  how to get you to do what she wanted, 
she therefore spent her time following  us around,  preferring people 
companionship.  She usually had the  run of the area around the house and barns, 
often showing up in my husbands  workshop to lay on one of his cushy rubber 
mats either inside in the  air conditioning (using our Great Pyrenees doggy 
door much to his dismay) or  outside this door on a mat to sun herself.  
Being a clean & tidy  sheep, she housebroke herself, always stepping outside 
the door to potty,  which my husband adored her for.  We always felt she came 
in to listen  to the music on the radio, and monitor what was going on.  She 
could  keep order among the rest of the flock, simply by starring at any 
one of  them.  One withering look to a ram or a misbehaving lamb, and everyone 
 bowed to her wishes, never questioning her absolute "Queen" status. She  
was a wise girl, very level headed, with a calming influence, and was a  
great mother.  Her most valuable trait to me was her immune  system.  It was 
second to none with super parasite resistance that  I have never seen in any 
other sheep of any breed. Her pretty fleece with a  deep steel blue/gray 
coloring, sweet temperament, & lovely  body type, are but a few of the wished for 
traits of any  shepherd/shepherdess.
 
She seems to have made a contribution to the breed passing  on her quality 
to her offspring from what I have heard.  She had lambs  with Spahr Farm 
Sheffield, 4 Horn Farms Baa None, & Springrock Shadrach  over the years, all 
handsome top quality boys.  She is survived by  her offspring from these rams: 
Dilly, Eostre, Skye, Elizabeth, Carolyn,  Merlin, Luna, Poppy, Blazing 
Star, Ringo's Albus, Miracle. She is  survived here by her sons.  I apologize if 
I've missed any, I do not  know much about her younger years.
 
Suffice it to say that we miss her greatly.  To those  of you who have 
children & grandchildren of her and had never met her,  we thought you would 
like to know of her passing as well as how special she  was. Thank you for 
letting us share this wonderful Jacob  with you.  If anyone has anything to 
share on her  progeny, we'd love some cheering up about now! 
 
Sharon Lehrke
Sovreign Farms
FL
 
 
 
 


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