Re: [blackbelly] Parasites and Drug Resistance

[Carol J. Elkins]

My greatest desire is to get the population of polled Barbados Blackbelly 
sheep sufficiently high that we have the option to cull for birthing 
problems and other undesirable traits. I totally agree that we as breeders 
are creating many of these problems ourselves by keeping animals who carry 
these traits and passing their genes into the gene pool. Helmut has been 
saying that for years on this list and he is correct. I hate seeing the 
blackbelly breeds losing the very traits that we find so desireable in 
them. We don't have much option for culling in the polled breed; hopefully 
Barbado breeders will be more selective and weed out those sheep with 
undesirable traits. Both breeds should resist the urge to pamper and 
overmedicate their sheep.

Carol

At 11:20 AM 4/15/2004 -0700, you wrote:
Do you think these sheep are being domesticated to much? and once they
are domesticated wont they have the same problems the woollies have
I'm wondering if to many people are raising this breed of sheep to be
domestic pets, not let them eat, birth and graze like they did in the
wild,
Carol Elkins
Critterhaven Estate
Registered Barbados Blackbelly Hair Sheep
(no shear, no dock, no fuss)
Pueblo, Colorado
http://www.critterhaven.biz
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