Yesterday evening I got a phonecall, Veterinarian working in NZ and CA. After culling all the so called scrapie genes, in Germany, Belgium, France...Scrapie still exist.
Seems what we do is witch hunting. All hair sheep which have no influence of Suffolk, Hampshire, Scottish Blackface do fine in regarding Scarpie genes. Regards Helmut ----- Original Message ----- From: "William Buchanan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <blackbelly@lists.blackbellysheep.info> Sent: Wednesday, February 01, 2006 9:50 AM Subject: [blackbelly] RR and QR > Hello all, > > While reading some stuff on hairsheep, I ran across some Katahdin people > talking about their sheep being RR and QR and QQ. I read on to discover > these letters have something to do with the sheep's genetic resistance to > getting scrapie if exposed? Not really sure on that... but apparently RR > is > the most desired. > > ANYWAY, have these tests been run on any Barbados sheep that anyone is > aware > of? > > It would be interesting to see how our sheep stack up. > > Thanks > > Chris B > > > _______________________________________________ > This message is from the blackbelly mailing list > Visit the list's homepage at blackbelly@lists.blackbellysheep.info > http://lists.blackbellysheep.info/listinfo.cgi/blackbelly-blackbellysheep.info > > > -- > No virus found in this incoming message. > Checked by AVG Free Edition. > Version: 7.1.375 / Virus Database: 267.15.0/248 - Release Date: 01/02/2006 > > _______________________________________________ This message is from the blackbelly mailing list Visit the list's homepage at blackbelly@lists.blackbellysheep.info http://lists.blackbellysheep.info/listinfo.cgi/blackbelly-blackbellysheep.info
