[blackbelly] RE: breed standards

Sat, 27 Mar 2004 20:31:32 -0800

Sue, thanks for bringing the issue to the list again. The more often it comes up, the better chance we will have of some day getting the two breeds more completely separate. Barbados Blackbelly really do have NO HORNS regardless of their ability to be registered as Barbados Blackbelly. That registration mix-up we have will eventually be fixed. For the time being, think of your sheep as Barbado. Chances are about 99.99% that you have no true Barbados Blackbelly. The Barbado breed resulted from mixing the Barbados Blackbelly with a number of other breeds, resulting in all the possible colors for that breed. So, stick to that Oklahoma site to get your standards. Barbado can be many different colors, but BB must have some shade of brown on top and black underneath and never any horns.

Rick Krach
  Auburn CA 95602
     (530) 889-1488

From: Susan Smith" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Fri, 26 Mar 2004 19:19:41 +0000
Subject: [blackbelly] Question about showing BB's and Barbado

I have Barbado sheep, registered Barbados Blackbelly sheep (horned)  I also
have none registered stock.  I have a young man in 4-H who wants to show one
of each....registered and unregistered.  I find no standards for the
Barbado...only the Barbados Blackbelly.  Yet when I look on the University
of Oklahoma page about Barbado there is a destinct difference in not only
name, but color, coat, and horned rams, polled ewes, etc.  So do Barbado
sheep get judged the same in comformation/breed even though they have 2
other breeds mixed with them? Not being purebred BBB, would they have to
hold to the same standard as if they were Barbados Blackbelly?  And one of
my ewe lambs has a white dot on the top of her head, she could never be
shown as a BBB, even if she was registered (which she is not), but how about
a Barbado?  She should be able to be shown as a Barbado sheep........see
what I mean here, just a little confusing.   Thanks Sue

Susan Smith
Sandoah Achers

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