Nancy, glad you like them horns!
In fact, in California, a lot of the "Barbado" sheep as everyone calls
them, seem to get their horns "from" Painted Desert sheep, as opposed
to Mouflon (which is in a lot of the literature regarding Barbados
sheep breeding to get horns). I search ads all the time and never even
see the word "Mouflon" in any ads for sheep in California. In fact, if
I were to adopt another breed to work with, I'd love to work with pure
Mouflons as well.
So, a good bit of the AB sheep we have in northern California also
show Painted desert features.
https://picasaweb.google.com/mwsmotorsports/NikkiS_Sheep827081028AM#
I'm working to breed those patchy, painted looks out, and get some
nice, reddish coats and good, black markings.
-Michael, Perino Ranch Blackbellies.
On Mon, May 30, 2011 at 9:51 AM, wrote:
> As a fan of American as well as Barbados Blackbellies, the horns on your
> sheep are FABULOUS! My sister has started breeding Painted Desert sheep,
> there are two things that are a must for painted desert sheep, 1 is Horns
> like these and 2 are American Blackbelly sheep. My American Blackbelly ram
> is going to sire Painted Desert babies and I can only hope he has a rack like
> these rams! Well done.
>
> Nancy L. Johnson
> imgr8a...@comcast.net
> cell: 301 440 4808
>
>
> - Original Message -
> From: "Michael Smith"
> To: "blackbelly"
> Sent: Friday, May 27, 2011 7:14:12 PM
> Subject: [Blackbelly] California Rams May 2011
>
> My sister brought her DSLR camera over and took some nice photos of my
> 5 intact rams. 2 of them are yearlings from my 5 rams born last May.
> Only two made it this far intact. The other 3 were wethered.
>
> No captions on any of the pics yet. There's two pages, but you should
> be able to just click on the pictures you like best and not have to
> slog through all of them
>
> enjoy!
>
> http://mwsmith.smugmug.com/Animals/RamsMay2011/17252812_BwW2Sr#1309782994_GxWPdGn
>
> Michael, Perino Ranch Blackbellies.
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