[Jacob-list] Jacob lilac question

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In a message dated 8/4/01 3:51:26 PM Eastern Daylight Time, bissell at usit.net 
writes:


> 
> >> ???  Next, the lady from Scottland whose sheep are in these pictures and 
>> whose sheep won for grand champion at the Royal Show in England for 
>> something like 6 or 7 years in a row told me she had NEVER seen a "Lilac" 
>> or any other off colored Jacob as long as she has been in sheep!!!!!!!!!   
>> Now that is obviously over a long period of time and evidently covers a 
>> lot of English and/or Scottish territory.  Just an interesting little fact 
>> about coloration.   It still seems to me that this color gene, or what 
>> ever it is, came from the Lincoln Park importation and then went thru the 
>> Meyers, Reynolds, and other midwestern flocks and then on to Geoff Hatch 
>> when he bought the Reynolds ewes.  And another thought - the first off 
>> color sheep that I saw in the early flocks were primarily brown/gray/lilac 
>> arount the eyes and in the body spots with ALL of the leg coloring black.  
>> Only when the Meyers flocks started intergrating into the overall pictures 
>> did the total body off colors start to show up at sales, in registrations, 
>> etc to my knowledge.  Bob Hale brought some of the Meyers stuff into the 
>> Cape and also some stock from I think the Jackson, Miss. Zoo - I bought 
>> them because of the strong horns and the body color.  Did not particularly 
>> like them but Sue Thaxton loved them.  So she ended up with them plus off 
>> that Luther had bought from Evan Myers and then they all went on to Ed 
>> Lanham.  Linda has a picture of the first really all over brown [???] ewe 
>> that I ever saw and bought on her web site.  But she threw some absolutly 
>> beautiful B/W lambs.  And the nicest ram ever born on this farm was off 
>> 
> 
Thanks for the input on the black leg spotting, Edd. By the way the lilac ewe 
I'm referring to is a granddaughter of one your Jacobs that Mary Spahr got 
from you. 

Ingrid's book mentions lilacs being in the UK, but apparently they don't care 
for them too much. I have a photo of the woman's Jacob that won so much over 
there. It's in a book written in England on showing sheep. It's a beautiful 
Jacob, but very unlike our primitives over here. It is very deep, wide bodied 
and a wide muzzle. It looks like our commercial breeds, but with spots. 

Joan Franklin

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