[Jacob-list] sheep identification

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It's also handy to have some pictures of young lambs for your registration shots.  Sometimes with a longer fleeced animal, the spots are not as apparent as I'd like when they are old enough to show their horns well. A few years ago I asked an inspector what to do about a lilac ewe of mine that did not photograph clearly.  She said to include a couple of her baby pictures along with the current photos to more clearly show the spotting.

Linda




  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Kate Shirley 
  To: sheep 
  Sent: 20 April, 2000 7:03 AM
  Subject: [Jacob-list] sheep identification




  This year I did an experiment.  I tagged all lambs when born.  I also
  took one polaroid picture of their left side.  Since individual lambs
  have different spotting patterns I thought that this would help with
  i.d.'s.  Wow!  what a difference!  Next year I will not be tagging the
  lambs, just using photos.  On the back of the photo, I used an address
  label and wrote birthdate, dam, sire, sex of lamb, and lambs name if
  named.  This was also helpful for my roomate who simply sees spotted
  horned sheep.  
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