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THE KING OF TROPICAL SHEEP
C/O Barbados Agricultural Society
Beckles Road Saint Michael
Bridgetown, Barbados
cklaurie@sunbeach.net All Enquiries
About our Stock
Barbados Blackbelly sheep combine the rare attributes of adaption to widespread environments and high reproductive efficiency,which account for their average of two lambs per litter and an average lambing interval of eight to nine months.
History of The Barbados Blackbelly
During the first 25 years of colonization, Barbados
established commerce throughout the West Indies with the
New England colonies and with European countries, including
Russia. Wooled sheep may have been imported from these
trading partners and other colonizing countries of Europe.
Whatever the origin of their wooled ancestors the sheep of Barbados moved from their precarious beginnings to a place of importance in Barbados agriculture by 1680, "visitors were delighted by Barbados sheep, fat, sweet mutton, fed on sugar cane."