11/20/2024
Maybe it has always been there and I didn't see it but in last couple years I have noticed it more. People buy a sheep and post the wins without promoting the breeder or farm, when people read the post they think if you posted the winner you must have raised it.
I like to think we are past the point of buying just a sheep because it was out of the ram or from the breeder that was hot. Yes I still follow breeders and Genetics but if we buy a ewe it's gotta be one we think is special. Last year I wanted a modern marvel ewe and looked at a lot of them. NOC/Dakota Quickle had this lined up Casey Jones ewe that was my pick. She did not disappoint. She was champion AOB at 2022 Arkansas state fair. In the spring, we had to think about how to bred her. Blackface and make a spec or find the right papered Dorset and keep up with a papered lamb but then Montana Beck posted grease monkey.I figured what not shoot for the exotic. Ultrasound confirmed she is bred but question will be.will it be blackface,1/4 chance? Will it be whiteface, 3/4 chance? Piebald, idk 10% chance?
I had never been one of that said come pick your next winner here but if you want to come look through a set that has consistently feed out and showed well, I think this years set will be pretty neat. I will post more mating as the year goes along.