Painted Desert Ram

[neener92]

I've added a picture (taken fall '11) of her next to a Suffolk lamb, lamb was born in Aug. '11 and she was born between Feb. and March '11. The ewe in the picture is one of my smaller framed Suffolk/Dorset ewes.

 

[aggieterpkatie]

Well, I've seen a 300+ lb Montadale ram breed a small yearling Montadale ewe, and she handled his weight ok. It's really up to the individual sheep owner to decide what they want to do though.

 

[boothcreek]

If I understand this correctly, painted desserts are barbados sheep that popped out with white in their hair. I would like to know if this is true because i have admired how pretty they are. I have seen painted dessert dad + barbados mom = standard barbados colored lambs. But i am not sure if this happens all the time.

Painted deserts were created by crossing Mouflon with American Black bellies and crossing some horned white wooled breeds in for colour then breed back to the Black Belly(barbados) type. Thats why painted deserts can really vary in size and conformation. When you look at painted deserts you can also tell what they are closer related to ABB or Mouflon by what colour their belly and legs are, if black = ABB if white = Mouf.

I have Painteds but mine are from strictly pure american black belly heritage(small colourfault in one ewe I bred up to being painted), so lambs are the typical tan and black but with white manteling). Since they are not available in Canada. I hope I can bring in a ram eventually.

As for breeding to a painted desert, if you don't care about size and how long it takes the lambs to reach butcher weight , go for it. Those should be some fun coloured lambs!!!
I personally only use my ABBs and Painteds for meat, just not huge animals but yuuuummy!

 

[neener92]

If I understand this correctly, painted desserts are barbados sheep that popped out with white in their hair. I would like to know if this is true because i have admired how pretty they are. I have seen painted dessert dad + barbados mom = standard barbados colored lambs. But i am not sure if this happens all the time.

Painted deserts were created by crossing Mouflon with American Black bellies and crossing some horned white wooled breeds in for colour then breed back to the Black Belly(barbados) type. Thats why painted deserts can really vary in size and conformation. When you look at painted deserts you can also tell what they are closer related to ABB or Mouflon by what colour their belly and legs are, if black = ABB if white = Mouf.

I have Painteds but mine are from strictly pure american black belly heritage(small colourfault in one ewe I bred up to being painted), so lambs are the typical tan and black but with white manteling). Since they are not available in Canada. I hope I can bring in a ram eventually.

As for breeding to a painted desert, if you don't care about size and how long it takes the lambs to reach butcher weight , go for it. Those should be some fun coloured lambs!!!
I personally only use my ABBs and Painteds for meat, just not huge animals but yuuuummy!

Thank you for the information, booth! I love the black bellies too, but those are even more difficult to find around here. If they still have him, I think I'll get him as soon as I can...see what we get out of this breeding.