[Jacob-list] generations...

[Linda]

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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