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http://www.fao.org/DOCREP/004/X6517E/X6517E02.htm#ch2.1
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2.1 BARBADOS BLACKBELLY SHEEP by R.K. Rastogi, H.E. Williams and F.C. Youssef
"Numbers. At present the Ministry of Agriculture estimates that there are
something over 30,000 sheep in Barbados; about one-third are purebred Blackbelly
(see Plates 1–3), another one-third are grade Blackbelly (off-type in colour
or with white spots) and the remaining are “others” (see Frontispiece). The
last category includes hair sheep of other colours such as, white, tan, black or
pied, and crosses with Blackhead Persian and wool sheep (mainly Wiltshire
Horn). In fact in or around 1950, simultaneous importations of Wiltshire Horn
sheep from the U.K. occurred in Barbados (Patterson, 1976), Tobago (Trinidad and
Tobago, 1953) and Guyana (Devendra, 1975) with the objective of improving the
quality of local sheep by crossbreeding. It has been estimated in Barbados
that about 10 percent of the lambs born from woolless sheep at present are more
or less woolly and these are not kept for breeding."
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