[Jacob-list] Neck / mane /

[Thomas Simmons]

Edd - 

I don't know which lines were included in these imports, but I've been compiling reams of names lately - one of my rams has a fairly identifiable mane (longer, thinner wool - not quite hair - also a line of kemp at the base) and his oldest lines are Sutherlands/RBC (dams side) and Sutherlands/PMA/Atwood (sire's).  Any correlation between these and the imports to which you referred?

thom
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    From: edd bissell <bissell at usit.net>
    To: Jacob List Members <jacob-list at jacobsheep.com>
    Date: Thursday, April 27, 2000 5:05 PM
    Subject: [Jacob-list] Neck / mane /
    
    
    I think I just sent Mary's question about mane back to the sender and not the list.  Luther and I have talked in the past about this - and we think it came in with the English/Hescock importation.  I have never really noticed it in the early years - Mary Ellen, look in those old pictures that I sent to you and see if you can see any on some of the ewes!!  I know that sounds strange but do remember seeing some of them with a neck ruff - maybe not the excess hair type mane but at least extra growth.  I never did get a ram from Mazie but Luther and I bought 20 ewes - and I used one ram from Janine - which was from S. Davies - fairly pure Hescock.  Also Bill Jones would be a good person to ask about it since he has Hescock, Fenton [Rockefeller], and Leaseu - all going back to the Scottish Importation Also the mane seems to be a hair instead of wool growth. 
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