Can someone explain to me why people keep talking about male sheep from Eastern Germany?

[rysiek@mstdn.social]

Can someone explain to me why people keep talking about male sheep from Eastern Germany?

Apparently everyone wants them and there's not enough to go around?

This is so weirdly specific. Why is a DDR ram is so distinctly desirable suddenly?

[valhalla@social.gl-como.it]

@rysiek because of the shortages of consumer goods in communist Europe, in the DDR they bred sheep that were suitable for both wool and meat production¹, with as fine a wool as suitable for the non-Spanish climate of Germany.

People in other places where Merino sheep don't thrive are looking for those rams to breed their own flocks.

For obvious survive-the-apocalypse-and-rebuild-things reasons.

¹ source²: I've skimmed whitecloversheepfarm.com/prl-a… , which was the first search result and I'm definitely going back to read the whole thing
² of course I care about sources for my shitposts!