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Barbados Black Belly
Ovis aries
A breed of Sheep, from Barbados
Barbadian breed of sheep.
- Family
- Bovidae
Keeping
How it is kept
Kept for
- Meat
- Mature weight
- 50–75 kg
The record
Breed facts
Size
- Weight (female)
- 40–50 kgBLE TGRDEU (Germany), 2024 (source, opens in a new tab)
- Weight (male)
- 40–50 kgBLE TGRDEU (Germany), 2024 (source, opens in a new tab)
- Height (female)
- 65 cmWikidata (source, opens in a new tab)
- Height (male)
- 78 cmWikidata (source, opens in a new tab)
Production
- Litter size
- 2.1Wikidata (source, opens in a new tab)
- Litter size
- over 200% lambing rateBLE TGRDEU (Germany), 2024 (source, opens in a new tab)
- Daily weight gain
- 150–200 gBLE TGRDEU (Germany), 2024 (source, opens in a new tab)
Appearance
- Colours
- Black, brownWikidata (source, opens in a new tab)
- Horns
- Polled (hornless)BLE TGRDEU (Germany), 2024 (source, opens in a new tab)
Status
- Population
- 73 breeding females, 23 breeding males in GermanyBLE TGRDEU (Germany), 2024 (source, opens in a new tab)
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- Name
- Barbados Black Belly
- Slug
- barbados-black-belly
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Family
- Bovidae
- Genus
- Ovis
- Species
- aries
- Cultivar
- Barbados Black Belly
- Wikidata QID
- Q1091795
- Origin country
- Barbados
- Container suitable
- No
- Indoor suitable
- No
- OSSI pledged
- No
- Hazard level
- 1
- Data completeness
- 52