[Jacob-list] opinion

[Gillian Fuqua]

    I am new to breeding so who knows what I would do with an oh so cute
lamb looking at me plaintively.  I'm guessing that I would rescue it but not
breed it.  I think that I am with Sue in that I would ship it off to be a
pet and not keep it as a breeder.  I might breed the ewe again to see if the
problematic lamb was a fluke or the norm for that ewe.  If it were the norm,
she wouldn't get bred again and she would become someone's pet or dinner,
unless she had a super fleece.  I do think that if we are interested in
preserving a rare breed we are not doing the job if we keep marginal
individuals in the gene pool.  It certainly is an interesting debate.
     I work with emotionally disturbed kids and sometimes have cynical
Darwinistic thoughts about how humans are reproducing....

Gillian