This is true.The Barbados Blackbelly was close to extintion in thirty years ago and Texas Barbados have been shipped to Barbados to improve the genetics on the Island of Barbados.
Ron Tabers Meat Sheep Shepherd Manual , a an excellent book about hair sheep management, has details about the shipment of Barbados sheep to the Island. http://www.meatsheep.org/ The Barbados Island has today the same mix up of hair sheep as Mexico, some are tan and black, others brown or white. Regards Helmut > > << You know that there are people here in Texas that believe the barbado is a > creation of some Texan. Maybe the horns came form the crossing of the > purebred with a wool sheep. Maybe the blackbelly barbado not only got its horns > from Texas but also its wooly back (which we find a lot of here). I know we are > are always trying to "improve" some breed or another!!!! >> > > Well, from what I have read it was a Texan (or several) that 'improved' the > original BBS. They supposedly used Rambouillet and Mouflon sheep. > > LOL > > Diana > =============================================== > 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]/ =============================================== 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]/
