[Jacob-list] need advice on breeding groups

[Carl Fosbrink]

What you are referring to is compensation mating. Putting an animal that is lacking in a certain trait with one who is good in that trait. It is a good idea, but you are only dealing with one or two offspring at a time so the desired results may or may not occur in the one or two offspring produced. Please don't forget to keep conformation, spotting pattern, hardiness etc. in mind also when breeding your Jacobs.


From: Kimberly Sutton 
Sent: Friday, November 02, 2012 8:31 PM
To: jacob-list at jacobsheep.com 
Subject: [Jacob-list] need advice on breeding groups


This will be our first year of breeding our sheep and we had a question about fleeces.  We have heard that the easiest thing to improve is fleece.  So does that mean that you could (or should) put a ram with a dense coarser fleece with ewe with really nice fine fleece and get a nicer fleece in the lambs?  Does the fleece always improve or does it go backwards sometimes?  


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