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[CoyoteHuntress]

If so I need to ask you.... What the heck is the difference bewteen a corsica and a barbados?? I swear the corsica looks identicle to my neighbors herd of barbados and so now Im on a mission to find out if they are one and the same.... Far as I can tell the look the same, same shape, same color, same curl.. What the heck is the dang difference? Edited to add--- Well it seems that the corsica apparently has a white belly.. While the barbados has black.. Other than that I cant see any other differences. Intersting....

[Camoghost]

I have hunted them and shot them, usually on private ranches. Being there are 52 different species of rams to shoot I get a bit confused myself.. I only have to kill 35 more to complete my wall of rams Here are some pics so you can see the differance. No that is not me in the pics.  Barb.jpg   6.04K   30 downloads  Ram.jpg   20.05K   30 downloads

[CoyoteHuntress]

Nice pics but really dont show any difference..because there isnt any but the lighter belly... Which is why I originally asked the question. If you look at the pic any of those rams could be in someones backyard herd LOL.. Actually I found out that mouflan, barbados and Corsican are all pretty much the same in looks with the exception of the corsican having a lighter belly. The corsican ram is actually a name that was given by a ranch way back in time... when they bred the mouflan with the barbados... Enter the Corsican Ram ... That is why the corsican and the barbados look so much alike LOL.. Here is from a bookBarbados sheep:domestic breed of polled,black-bellied sheep on island of Barbados,West Indies in the Caribbean.brought to us by the u s department agriculture in 1904 and crossed with horned to improve meat characteristics. never popular with commercial meat producers because carcass is small, but the large horns opened market with ranches. Corsican sheep: a registered trademark of the Y O ranch, Mountain home, Texas (also known as Corsican ram). color varieties called white Corsican(Texas Dall),black Corsican(black Hawaiian).all are names for a hybrid form developed at the Y O ranch by breeding European mouflon with domestic Barbados sheep. since then,sometimes hybridized with other domestic sheep.

[DEERSLAM]

From what I know the Corsican is a cross between a European Mouflon and a Barbados black-bellied from West Africa. There has be so much inter breeding that you can't tell one from the other. European Mouflon are one of the worlds smallest sheep. It has a very distint light colored or white saddle patch and it's horns do not flare out at the tips. For record keeping purposes Safari Club International states that the horn tips can not be the widest measurement on the horns. The Corsican is basically a mut in the sheep world. They come in a wide range of colors and horn configurations. They have also been crossed with other types, domestic and wild, sheep.