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Mr. Barnes had extensive experience in breeding several
breeds of purebred sheep, including Hampshires, Rambouillets, and
Suffolks. However, by the 1980's, he concentrated on
Rambouillets and Suffolks. Rambouillets have white faces and
feet and cream colored bodies and are a breed noted for producing
good-quality wool. Suffolks, on the other hand, have black faces
and legs and cream colored bodies and are a breed noted for
producing good-quality meat.
By the late 1980's, Mr. Barnes and Randy had acquired very
good reputations in purebred sheep breeding circles and were
generally considered to be among the country's top breeders of
Rambouillets and Suffolks. During the 1980's, they typically
would enter annually between 20 to 25 of some of their best
yearling sheep in various national purebred sheep shows around
the country, and their sheep often won awards at these shows.
Substantially all of the Barnes Ranches' breeding flock
consisted of ewes, since a number of ewes would often be bred
with and serviced by one ram. Typically, its breeding flock ewes
produced a single crop of lambs each year. However, in some
instances certain ewes might give birth to twins, and on
relatively infrequent occasions a particular ewe might even
produce triplets. Over the years, of the total number of lambs
produced annually, about half were females. Only a relatively
small percentage of the lambs born, perhaps no more than 10 to 15
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