wava1vaughn
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Hi from Ga. We raise Barbados ( Black Belly ) sheep.
How many are currently raising hair breeds of sheep?
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Beekissed
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A beautiful breed! 
wava1vaughn
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Hi from Ga. A couple more pics.
When I get a chance I'll post some more recent pics. with our newest lamb 1 week old.
When I get a chance I'll post some more recent pics. with our newest lamb 1 week old.
EllieMay
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Love the pics!
Thank you for sharing!!
Thank you for sharing!!
boothcreek
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Texas barbados or American Black bellies? Sometimes texas ones can look like american thats why I ask. Barbados black bellies wouldn't have horns....wava1vaughn said:
Your ram has nice clean facial markings, making me think American BB? How old is he in the pic, by the horns I am guessing around the 8-10 month mark? If so he will have an AWESOME Rack later!
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They look like American Blackbelly to me. The Texas Barbado (note...no "s" on the end of that name...the "s" only goes on the Barbados blackbelly) has horns too, but often has a lighter underbelly. Those sheep look like they have a black belly. At any rate, they are nice looking.boothcreek said:
wava1vaughn
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Hi from Ga. I have to plead guilty. I don't know American from Texan. They just look good. Here are a few pics. from this morning.
The Baby lamb is about a week old the ram is almost a year old. I baby them to the point that they almost don't do their job of foraging. They get grain twice a day and peanut hay. They won't touch the grass but love the brush. I used them to replace my goats last year.
The Baby lamb is about a week old the ram is almost a year old. I baby them to the point that they almost don't do their job of foraging. They get grain twice a day and peanut hay. They won't touch the grass but love the brush. I used them to replace my goats last year.
Sheepdog
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We have 3 breeds... Dorper, Katahdin, St Croix. All fullblood ewes and a fullblood Dorper ram.
We keep sheep because I am Australian and it is a staple part of our diet in Australian and I refuse to pay the exhorbitant prices of lamb here in the USA (don't mind getting high prices for our lambs.... but to buy it from the grocery store it is expensive and not readily available in this part of the US.
So we raise hair sheep because we don't have to deal with shearing.
For meat.
To use to train our working dogs.
To sell the katahdin X dorper and the St Croix X dorper at market and to sell off our registered fullblood lambs as breeding stock.
We had suffolk in Australia, but went into dorper because of the weight gain, hardiness, self shedding (though one has to know bloodlines etc for shedding ease in dorpers), and the fact that they are not as selective grazers as the wool sheep. I still love the wool breeds, because that was what we were accustomed to, but the hair sheep that we have now are easy compared to the wool breed meat sheep we have had in the past.
We keep sheep because I am Australian and it is a staple part of our diet in Australian and I refuse to pay the exhorbitant prices of lamb here in the USA (don't mind getting high prices for our lambs.... but to buy it from the grocery store it is expensive and not readily available in this part of the US.
So we raise hair sheep because we don't have to deal with shearing.
For meat.
To use to train our working dogs.
To sell the katahdin X dorper and the St Croix X dorper at market and to sell off our registered fullblood lambs as breeding stock.
We had suffolk in Australia, but went into dorper because of the weight gain, hardiness, self shedding (though one has to know bloodlines etc for shedding ease in dorpers), and the fact that they are not as selective grazers as the wool sheep. I still love the wool breeds, because that was what we were accustomed to, but the hair sheep that we have now are easy compared to the wool breed meat sheep we have had in the past.
wava1vaughn
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Hi from Ga. I'm going to look at some katahdin on the 23rd. but can't decide if I want to mix my herd. My friends are telling me to keep my herd pure.
