They have interbred for as long as I have known them.
A ram might be boot leather, but good mutton off them is really good as long as the meat is hot. Let it get cold and the grease is a bit weird.
I'd take that meat over a quite a bit of other.
We were sent out one night to get a sheep for the gals at the house had screwed up and ran out of meat for the hunters. They were beyond excellent cooks and to me the sheep was going to be better than the beef had been. Thunderstorms and all, all we could find, no sheep, but blackbuck does... boy did we get chewed out when we got back that night. Never mind we had driven for a couple hours looking..
They did ok with the blackbuck, covered it over with bell peppers enough... dang that sheep would have been outstanding.
