--- "Johnson, Oneta" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > i missed it. what pics are you talking about.
http://www.ddranch.com/images/Corsican_Ram.jpg It's a Corsican ram some guy bagged. I was snarking about a photo of some guy who was showing off his trophy Boer buck http://aztaxidermy.com/exotichunts.htm I found this elsewhere regarding the Barbado/Corsican confusion and shamefully copied and pasted it. There's a lot of controversy but it makes perfect sense that it's just a marketing scam to capitalize on various color variations. I believe someone else posted something similar a while back. " For several years I did all the computer database entry and certificate issuance for the Records of Exotics record book which is owned by Thompson. In fact, if you have a certificate that has a drawing of an animal on it rather than just lettering, it came from my computer! Look in a couple of the hard backed record books at the title pages. If it says "J. D. Stringer" - that's me. In the record book, all of the sheep that we are talking about are broken down into different categories. A Corsican is not entered into the Texas Dall category, a Hawaiian Black is not entered into the Corsican category, etc. To get the "Texas Slam" award one must take a Corsican, Hawaiian Black, Texas Dall, and Mouflon. So you are correct in that the sheep are "different" since they are listed in different categories in the ROE record book. < snip for space > Wanna know how the "Texas Slam" came about? TBT (Thompson) is a marketing genius. When he started the record book in 1976 the first category of sheep was the Corsican (they are really Barbado but remember - that's the farmer's name for it!. The term "Corsican" adds a little class to a hunter shooting a barnyard sheep). At first there were a lot of entries being sent in for the book but they started slacking off after a lot of folks took their Corsican. There was virtually no market to sell the sheep that didn't fit into the Corsican coloration so other names were given to the color variation - thus the Hawaiian Black and the Texas Dall. They were given their own category in the record book which gave them a value to hunters. When TBT came up with the idea of the Texas Slam (based on the Grand Slam of North American Sheep) that really exploded the hunting market. < snip > Here are the sheep that are different . . . 1. Mouflon is one breed, 2. Merino (also called Rambo or Ramboullet) is another breed, 3. Barbado - Corsican - Hawaiian Black - Texas Dall - and Painted Desert are all one breed - just different color variations. " copied from a forum at Taxidermy.net. Krista __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Tax Center - File online by April 15th http://taxes.yahoo.com/filing.html =============================================== This message is from the Barbados Blackbelly Sheep mailing list (http://www.awrittenword.com/listserv/index.html). To respond to this message, send e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe or change your membership options, go to http://lists.coyotenet.net/mailman/listinfo/blackbelly To search the archives, go to http://www.mail-archive.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/
