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Oh, good, you are already a sheep person, I can ask YOU stuff. : )


On Mar 9, 2008, at 1:19 PM, Lynda wrote:

> Almost everyone up here are cattle oriented.  There are some folks  
> with
> Jacobs and some folks with Black Bellies.  I don't want any modern  
> breeds.
> They just taste too muttony for me even when lambs.  I like the meat  
> from
> the old breeds like the Icelandics, Shetland, Soay.
>
>
> As I understand them, Icelandics are more thinking sheep than some  
> of the
> other breeds.  When the older kidlets were in 4-H we had Corriedale/ 
> Hamp or
> Suffolk crosses and they did really well and they won the carcass  
> contest
> every year.  They're just too inclined to be sheep sheep (dumb and  
> panicy)
> for me <g>