Nice people thread part 4 - sugar and spice and all things

lostinrates

yes, I'd concurr with tomterm. I haven't seen that many sheep in the carribean! Goats yes, and coated goats......go-at curry....mmmmmmmmmmm. My favourite sheep are castlemilk moorits http://castlemilkmooritsociety.co.uk/default.aspx then the things like soay and boreray and tomtems sheep. But even I think castlemilks are cute.....only problem is you can't get near 'em usually.

tomterm8

The main sheep breads in the Carribean are Barbados Blackbelly http://www.ansi.okstate.edu/breeds/sheep/barbadosblackbelly/index.htm and Pelibuey http://www.ansi.okstate.edu/breeds/sheep/pelibuey/index.htm . But they have a lot more goats than sheep, that is true.

vivatifosi

I don't know what the main sheep breeds were, but I saw them on St Kitts and they were everywhere. AIUI there has been a cull since (or at least calls for a cull). They were all over the train tracks, stopping car traffic. I have since googled and the saying around there was "goat tails go up and sheep tails go down" and I remember being told that. I do know others have seen them, because I've found their holiday snaps:

http://images.travelpod.com/tripwow/photos/ta-00c6-a66c-636f/goats-sheep-from-train-st-kitts-and-nevis-st-kitts-and-nevis+1152_12973451885-tpfil02aw-30622.jpg

lostinrates

tomterm8 wrote: »

The main sheep breads in the Carribean are Barbados Blackbelly http://www.ansi.okstate.edu/breeds/sheep/barbadosblackbelly/index.htm and Pelibuey http://www.ansi.okstate.edu/breeds/sheep/pelibuey/index.htm . But they have a lot more goats than sheep, that is true.

That's amazing, I truely have never seen or heard of either! Now I wanna know more about them!

edit: I called my parents and said ''what about these sheep, why didn't I see them?'' typically, my mother knew all about them....but my father hadn't noticed goats either. At least I was a child with no interest in farming then, he was grown up and should heve been interested!

vivatifosi

Just for you lir, I've uploaded a pic I took of them running up the road. I'm told that most of these are sheep, but there are some goats there too.

http://s1089.photobucket.com/albums/i347/vivatifosi/?action=view&current=CaribbeanStKitts204.jpg

lostinrates

vivatifosi wrote: »

Just for you lir, I've uploaded a pic I took of them running up the road. I'm told that most of these are sheep, but there are some goats there too.

http://s1089.photobucket.com/albums/i347/vivatifosi/?action=view&current=CaribbeanStKitts204.jpg

how wonderful! Thank you for sharing the pic, I LOVE it!

silvercar

Doing the ironing and switched the TV on to...celebrity big brother.

There is a guy from big fat gypsy wedding in it. Sally Bercow (the speaker's wife) is trying to explain to some blonde woman what a gypsy is, the girl doesn't understand. Unbelievably thick and those Jedward characters - more brain cells in their hair gel than in their head.

All the young girls are in bikinis with woolly shrugs/ cardigans on top. This is less than 2 miles from here. Its cold and raining out, who would wear a bikini?

HAMISH_MCTAVISH

Roast Goat...... Mmmmmm

GDB2222

I've just come back from a lovely walk on Hampstead Heath. It was sunny and very warm. I've just had a shower because I got so sweaty doing my 15 mins at 70%. You're only 7 or 8 miles away, Silver.

silvercar

GDB2222 wrote: »

I've just come back from a lovely walk on Hampstead Heath. It was sunny and very warm. I've just had a shower because I got so sweaty doing my 15 mins at 70%. You're only 7 or 8 miles away, Silver.

You're walking, they are just sitting and smoking.

If it was warm they wouldn't need cardies would they? I mean what sort of look is a bikini with a wrap on top?