We have kept Jacobs Sheep for 16 years and we love them. I never managed to learn to weave but I have sold a decent number of our sheep to weavers. Apparently it's desirable to be able to use it (wool/fleece) without the need to remove lanolin? Our fleeces don't have it (it's a bad fault in this breed). They don't require grain and they lamb little tiny babies and don't have reproductive issues like commercial varieties do. Full disclosure, I have only milked our sheep a handful of times over the years, generally when there has been an accidental death of a lamb but when we've had sheep's milk it was always our daughter's great delight. We've also had ewe's who would nurse any lamb in the pasture and they had bags nearly as large as the couple of little milk goats I had briefly. The rest of the disclosure is that we do eat the meat of our sheep and even those who swear they won't eat lamb will eat our sheep. They don't have the strong tallow tasting fat that can be off-putting to people.
