Let's make sure we are using the correct breed names, especially when
trying to help someone not familiar with either breed.
Barbados Blackbelly are polled (neither ram nor ewe has horns). They
are not called barbado or anything other than Barbados Blackbelly.
There are fewer than 500 of
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Subject: [Blackbelly] Need help with identifying a ewe
To: blackbelly@lists.blackbellysheep.info
Date: Sunday, September 25, 2011, 1:16 PM
I was called about rehoming a sheep recently (I have dairy goats, and I'm the
local petting zoo goat supplier livestock expert). I
first off: hair sheep. so only a few breeds could be in the mix.
Definitely Barbado or American Blackbelly- mix with something else. My AB girls
mostly have horn scurs, I would think a true barbado would not.
On the west coast, the most popular hair-sheep mixes with ABs are Painted
Desert,
