[Jacob-list] Hatch line

[dave & katrina]

Edd and list-
I remember that Luther told me that he noticed a big difference in
personality between the Hatch and Hume lines... If I understood him right,
the Hume rams were much more pleasant (meaning unaggressive) in nature than
the scrapy Hatch rams.  Is this what you remember and still notice?  Katrina
Lefever, Chicory Lane


----- Original Message -----
From: "Edd Bissell" <bissell at usit.net>
To: "Wayne & Edie Van Valkenburg" <joyew at mindspring.com>;
<Jacob-list at jacobsheep.com>
Sent: Tuesday, July 17, 2001 3:21 PM
Subject: Re: [Jacob-list] Hatch line


> At 12:47 PM 7/17/01 -0400, Wayne & Edie Van Valkenburg wrote:
> >Ed,
> >Where did the Hatch line originate from?  where did he get them?  Is
> >that known.
> >Have you noticed that the east coast Jacob look different from the west
> >coast?
> >Edie.
> >========
>
>
> Well, since you asked the question and I had not talked to Geoff in about
a
> year [he sent a trailer out here and got all of my Churro-Hair sheep when
I
> decided to downsize] I just got thru talking to him.  He got his first 5
> ewes from Cave Junction and Medford, Oregon - and he said Bill Herd had
> told him that they originally came from The Catskill Game Farm in NY -
> Jeugen Schultz[spelling??] was the owner and was an importer - primarily
> from South Africa. He then got a ram from Dave Hale in Mo - Hale had the
> Cape sale and a drive thru game farm and this ram had forward growing
horns
> and was pounding the cars as they drove thru!!!!  He used him until the
old
> Hatch ram was born from that flock.  He also bought everything that he
> could at the Cape thru the following years and any other ewes that he
could
> find.  He outbid Luther and I on EVERYTHING that came thru the Cape - and
> this was sometime in the mid to late 70s he said.  Then he bought 40 plus
> from Bill Reynolds - said the coloration was bad to him [fadeing and off
> colored] BUT they had the nicest and most consistent horns he had ever run
> across - He said he culled heavily on these ewes but said he had to buy
the
> whole bunch to get want he wanted - He used the old Hatch ram he said for
> years - he said he kept praying that he would not break a horn [he was the
> only ram in the field with 60 or so ewes] = he said he knew with value was
> nothing if a horn was broken and he thrrew exactly what he wanted.  I paid
> him $500 for him when I got him. And almost backed out!!!  Which would
have
> been a bad mistake on my part if I had because he threw exactly what I
> wanted also. So that is the Hatch story  -
>
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