[Jacob-list] Opinion regarding "true Jacob"

[Marguerite Van Beek]

To all Jacob Breeders,.

Do any of you think that a Jacob that does not have leg markings is not a "true Jacob".  That they are a crossbred.  At the MSWF a Jacob breeder approached some people that we looking and admiring our flock can up to them started a conversation and stated that our Jacobs are not "true Jacobs" because we have some that don't have leg markings.  I guess the gentlemen didn't know that my daughter was standing right there when he said it.
Are we as a group becoming so critical in what consider a "true Jacob" should be?  I have full siblings in my flock where one has leg marking and another does not.  So, the one without is not a true Jacob even thou he carriers that same gene pool as the one that does.  What is going on with our group?  Last year it was the two horn should be culled, this year it is the leg markings.  Gee, that would eliminate a lot of Jacobs.  Is this the path we are heading into.  Have we become that competitive or cynical, which is it?  

Peggy 
Ridgecroft Farms
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