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Posted by Bruce Fletcher (remove denture on May 1, 2009, 8:13 pm
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Posted by anne on May 2, 2009, 7:28 am
ricardianteeth@btinternet.com says...
There are numbers on the mother and children because ...
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Posted by Bruce Fletcher (remove denture on May 2, 2009, 8:19 am
anne wrote:
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> ricardianteeth@btinternet.com says...
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> There are numbers on the mother and children because ...
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they don't have names <g>
Seriously though, it's a way of tracking the sheep and their lambs; the
European Union is trying to introduce ear tags for all sheep but this is
very expensive, the tags often fall off and the electronic equipment
used to read the tags is unreliable if it rains!
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Spray on dye is also used when the tups (a tup is a ram or male sheep)
are "covering" the ewes (a ewe is a female sheep), the tups belly is
sprayed with a coloured dye which shows up on the backs of the ewes
which the tup has "covered"; if the shepherd has several tups each tup
is sprayed with a different colour.
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Posted by on May 2, 2009, 9:15 am
On Sat, 02 May 2009 13:19:09 +0100, "Bruce Fletcher (remove dentures
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>anne wrote:
>> ricardianteeth@btinternet.com says...
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>> There are numbers on the mother and children because ...
>Seriously though, it's a way of tracking the sheep and their lambs; the
>European Union is trying to introduce ear tags for all sheep but this is
>very expensive, the tags often fall off and the electronic equipment
>used to read the tags is unreliable if it rains!
>Spray on dye is also used when the tups (a tup is a ram or male sheep)
>are "covering" the ewes (a ewe is a female sheep), the tups belly is
>sprayed with a coloured dye which shows up on the backs of the ewes
>which the tup has "covered"; if the shepherd has several tups each tup
>is sprayed with a different colour.
Lol I did wonder how the ram's were putting numbers on the ewes now !
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Posted by anne on May 2, 2009, 9:36 am
ricardianteeth@btinternet.com says...
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> (a tup is a ram or male sheep)
this is I didn't know
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> (a ewe is a female sheep),
this I knew ;-)
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