[Jacob-list] Comment on "American Jacob"

[WenlochFrm at aol.com]

In a message dated 7/24/01 9:38:47 AM Eastern Daylight Time, 
glb123 at optonline.net writes:


> 
> Wow pardners...before we get too far down the "landrace" path, please be 
> reminded that a landrace is characterised by little or no human 
> intervention in selection for breeding. That certainly doesn't describe the 
> American Jacob. Americans are highly selective in breeding especially with 
> respect to hornset in males. By definition if we breed to a standard it is 
> 

Famous quote: "It depends on what your definitition of is, is".

Not exactly. There is a difference between "standardized" and having a 
"standard". A landrace is characterized by a larger than normal degree of 
phenotypical variability within the population. By breeding to a standard, 
the population gradually becomes more phenotypically homozygous unless care 
is taken to keep the standard broad in scope. In my opinion, the Jacob is on 
the cusp of becoming a standardized breed.

Joan Franklin 




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