15 years ago we did some breeding of Jacob rams to Blackbelly.
As the Blackbelly sheep are in comparison to other breeds in very low number
and extreme difficult to raise, as we see on this list daily, with 1/4 of
Jacob genetics lots of problems could be solved.Jacobs are much sturdier,
less losses in lambs, less problems with parasites
The best breed to use in BB would be the Romanov, shedding is much better in
first generation,
50:50 already a good sheep
Would be a way to improve, if there is still a possibility to improve
regards Helmut
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From: Terry Wereb [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: blackbelly@lists.blackbellysheep.info; Nancy Richardson
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Sent: Thursday, February 23, 2006 12:17 PM
Subject: Re: [blackbelly] Breed Crossing
Why would you want to do that? Mixing genetics of two
relatively rare breeds removes one more chance for the
ewe to [pass on her genetics to others of her 'kind.'
Terry
--- Nancy Richardson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
We were just wondering if anyone had ever crossed a
Jacob 4 horn sheep with
a Black Belly? If so what did you get? We were
thinking about doing this but
were wondering if anyone else had experimented
either on purpose or by
accident. Thanks
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