My husband was out of town for work with a group of guys and one of them asked him, "I have driven by sheep farms and the sheep have different colored butts and I can not figure out why the farmers would paint their butts. Why do they paint their butts?"
For those who do not know, at breeding time, the rams wear a harness with a color crayon on their chest. Every day we go out and check which ewes have been bred by which ones have a colored butt. Sometimes we will change the colors to see if the get rebred or we will put a different ram in there with a different color. This helps us know when they are going to lamb and which ram bred which ewe.
For those who do not know, at breeding time, the rams wear a harness with a color crayon on their chest. Every day we go out and check which ewes have been bred by which ones have a colored butt. Sometimes we will change the colors to see if the get rebred or we will put a different ram in there with a different color. This helps us know when they are going to lamb and which ram bred which ewe.
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