ABSTRACT
Sheep have been raised by small farmers in the Commonwealth Caribbean countries since the days of colonization. Guyana and Barbados have relatively large sheep populations and the Republic of Trinidad and Tobago has 7,000 head of sheep, of which about 5,000 are in Tobago. In Trinidad and Tobago, local sheep production satisfies only about 15 percent of the home market for mutton. The information was gathered from library sources, personal interviews, visits to private sheep farms, and through analysis of data collected at the Blenheim Sheep Station. In 1920, the Tobago Government Farm resumed sheep production with six ewes purchased locally from the Lowland Estate. By the end of 1948, the Tobago Government Farm had a total of 55 sheep of Blackhead Persian and West African types. The marketing and slaughtering of sheep is not well organized. In 1971, a 40-ha sheep breeding, multiplication, and demonstration project was developed from the old Blenheim Estate on the windward coast of Tobago.
