[Jacob-list] Pencil points:Ticking

[Kathryn Shirley]

I have a sheep that matches this description.  She has no black fibers
where the skin spots are.  She developed these spots as she got older.
As a result, I call them "age spots" as they do not affect the fleece,
just the skin.

Kate Shirley, Humbug Farm

Mary E Hansson wrote:

>  Hi,I once saw pictures of newly shorn Jacob sheep that had more like
> quarter-sized (maybe even larger) dots all over their bodies.  These
> were reputed to not have any black wool coming up through that area of
> the body, and these spots were not just top nor just
> underneath----sort of all around the sheep.  They fit into no theory I
> can deduce.  Any ideas or what am I missing?  I have never laid hands
> on a sheep that looked like this shorn, I must admit.  I do not
> believe the pictures to be doctored, though :o)
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>      From: jacob-list-admin at jacobsheep.com
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>      Sent: Monday, April 08, 2002 11:30 AM
>      To: rlynde at onramp113.org; jacob-list at jacobsheep.com
>      Subject: [Jacob-list] Pencil points:Ticking
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>      In a message dated 4/8/02 12:33:24 AM Central Daylight Time,
>      rlynde at onramp113.org writes:
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>     > The ticking shows about the size of a dull pencil point..>
>     >
>     > If freckles are present at birth and ticking is only the
>     > size of a pencil point, what are the small spots about the
>     > size of a pencil eraser that show up in successive
>     > shearings? Is this also ticking? I've called it freckles.
>
>      I understand it begins very small .. like the pencil point
>      .... but the "pencil points" do seem to expand to eraser
>      size.  Ticking is the one that "turns" a black and white
>      Jacob black and smutty over the years.  Fred
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