| Registration Information |
| The Painted Desert is a spotted hair sheep. Only Spotted sheep are eligible for registration. Photographs are required for registration, and white markings must be clearly visible in the photos. |
| Spotting has occurred in Barbados sheep and its crosses with Mouflon (Corsican , Black Hawaiian and Texas Dall). Some breeders have used Rambouillet, Merino, and four-horned breeds to improve horns. However, it then takes a few generations of back crossing to hair sheep to retrieve the wool-shedding trait. |
| Registation is based on two important factors: color and hair coat. Mature spotted hair sheep and their spotted offspring will be registered as FOUNDATION stock IF they carry no more than 1/8 of domestic wool sheep in their pedigree. ANy sheep showing a wooly coat will not be considered for registration in the Foundation registry. Spotted lambs of unknown background may be reistered in the TENTATIVE section until they reach one year of age and shed their baby wool. With the submission of new photos showimg a hair coat, the Tentative certificate will be replaced by a Foundation certificate. Ideally, photos should be taken after shedding or before a thick winter coat is put on. You are asked to make note of any known wool breeding close in the bloodline. This is obviously a honor system. Please don't misrepresent your sheep on the applicationand thus to buyers. If you do, sooner or later you'll be found out. If you wish to record the pedigree of sheep in your flock that are spooted but have more than 1/8 wool breed in their bloodline (example: those using Jacob or Navajo in their program to achieve a 4-horned Painted Desert), you may do so in the Appendix section. This is for percentage wool, not pure wool. This is to keep track of pedigrees only and does not imply that the sheep is a Painted Desert. You are not required to use this section; it is offered as a courtesy only. The object is to strive for color and hair. |
| FEES Foundation...............................................$6.00 Tentative..................................................$3.00 Advance from Tentative to Foundation.......$6.00 Appendix..................................................$4.00 Transfer of Ownership...............................$3.00 Replace Damaged Certificate......................$6.00 Family Membership(name all members).....$25.00 Lifetime Membership..............................$200.00 |
| You must be a member to register sheep. See membership appilcation. Please keep accurate and up to date flock records. Record dates of births, numbers, deaths, sales, illnesses, treatments, vaccinations, dewormings and etc. These records help you decide which sheep you need to keep and which you can part with. Please don't have a bunch of rams running with your ewes, even young rams. Rams have been known to bred ewes at four months of age. Keeop records of what ewe are running with what ram. If you don't know which ram sired that pretty lamb, it defeats the whole purpose of the registry. We want to know who is producing color. Keep records of all your sheep, not just the ones that are registered. We are establishing our gene pool, and even those solid colored ewes and rams are important. They could be color producers. However, if they aren't producing it don't dilute your chances of color by keeping them in you flock. They might cross better with someone else's bloodline. |