Hi, Yes, the mother ewe is a Barbado. I bought her and 2 other bred ewes who are also black with a few white markings. I also bought a ram and ewe who are solid black. The bred ewes were all bred by the same black daddy, also a Barbado. The lambs that were born were as follows, the white one you see here, a ram mostly brown with a black belly and a few white patches, 3 black rams with white spots on their heads, 1 brown ewe lamb, and a black ram lamb with white outlining his face looking like a panda bear. The solid black ewe got bred on my farm and had a solid black ewe lamb.
>From what I've read online, solid black seems to be a recessive gene that comes out every now and then. Probably much like the black sheep from a line of white wool sheep, or vice versa. We like the looks of the black, especially when we see the various patterns of color that come too. Like one ram lamb we named General because he has a star in the center of his forehead and a bar from horn to horn above it. I pulled up a website for the painted desert sheep, and although they look wonderful, they look uite different than my Barbados, their hair is much shorter and the colors are much more patchy. It's great to hear all the different ideas on this group. You're a great bunch of people, Marion Arkansas --- Rick Krach <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Thanks, Marion. Do you consider the black mother > ewe a Barbado? I see that > the lamb has some BB color underneath. I see the > mom has a little white, > also; thus the genes for white in the lamb. Maybe > the BB color underneath > came from the father? Standards for "Barbado" are > pretty broad right now, > but if they go from white all the way to black, I > think they should be > called mixed-breeds and not "Barbado." Agree? > > Rick Krach > Auburn, California > (530) 889-1488 > > >From: Marion LoPrinzi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: Re: [blackbelly] RE: white lamb > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Sorry. Let's try this. > > http://www.geocities.com/mbldesigns/photos/MBLSheep/Sheep.html > > Marion > > _________________________________________________________________ > Getting married? Find tips, tools and the latest > trends at MSN Life Events. > http://lifeevents.msn.com/category.aspx?cid=married > > =============================================== > 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]/ __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? SBC Yahoo! - Internet access at a great low price. http://promo.yahoo.com/sbc/ =============================================== 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]/
