FAO ANIMAL PRODUCTION AND HEALTH PAPER   17

prolific tropical sheep TABLE OF CONTENTS

by
i.l. mason
with the assistance of the
united nations environment programme

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TABLE OF CONTENTS

1. INTRODUCTION

2. HAIR SHEEP OF TROPICAL AMERICA

2.1 Barbados Blackbelly - by R.K. Rastogi, H.E. Williams and F.G. Youssef

2.2 White Virgin Island sheep

2.3 Bahama native - by A.S. Demirüren

2.4 Pelibüey sheep of Cuba

2.5 Tabasco sheep of Mexico

2.6 Hair sheep in the Dominican Republic

2.7 African sheep in Colombia - by R. Bautista O. and J.J. Salazar C.

2.8 Morada Nova of Brazil - by E.A.P. Figueiredo

2.9 The origin of the American hair sheep

3. SOUTHEAST ASIA

3.1 The prolific sheep of Java

3.2 Sheep in Papua New Guinea

3.3 Sheep of the Malay Peninsula

3.4 Wera breed of Bangladesh

4. PROLIFIC BREEDS IN THE SUBTROPICS

4.1 D'man breed of Morocco

4.2 Omani sheep

4.3 Hu-yang breed of China

4.4 Svanka breed of Georgia, U.S.S.R.

4.5 Prolific breeds in Greece

5. CONCLUSIONS AND RECOMMENDATIONS

5.1 Prolific breeds in Europe

5.2 Characteristics of prolific sheep

5.3 Conservation of prolific breeds

5.4 The exploitation of prolific sheep and of other humid tropical breeds

5.4.1 Purebreeding

5.4.2 Commercial crossing

5.4.3 Use of prolific males to improve breeds elsewhere

5.4.4 New breed formation

5.5 The need for more information on prolific breeds

5.5.1 Russian and Chinese breeds

5.5.2 Centre for the study of prolific sheep breeds

5.6 Summary of recommendations

General references

Acknowledgements

Plates 1–31

ILLUSTRATIONS

Common sheep in Barbados (note variation in colour) (Photo - John Abbott)