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kanisha:
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Fleecewife:
Hi Kanisha
We use turkey wing tags at birth to identify the lambs - Soay and Hebridean.  They are tiny with 3 numbers on and look like a tiny padlock.  The wire loop is just pushed through the ear then clicked shut, so mimimal trauma.  They do occasionally lose one but it's not a major problem.  Then at 4 months ie weaning we swap for the bigger permanent tags and cross-ref the numbers.  The tags come from Roxanne and can be re-used if you clean them. This year our Soays are a variety of colours and we can tell them all apart so we didn't bother with the turkey wing tags.

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kanisha:
Hi Fleece wife we have a derrogation to allow us to use turkey wing type tags permanently on ouessants. they are lightweight aluminium with a bend in them and have my flock and individual registration number on them however once lost the number can't be re issued the  sheep gets a new number.  I am not really in favour of tagging and then retagging my sheep I know one breeder who does as you and uses the lightweight ones on his lambs and then re tags with tip tags later. only trouble is even the tip tags are large and I hate looking at my sheep with yellow butterflies on their ears.  I am keeping everything crossed we get a derrogation but I'm not holding out a lot of hopê :(

how come you got lots of colours with your soays?????  out of interest do you have spotting in your soays as well?

Fleecewife:
Hi Kanisha
Do you have to have EIDs in France this year?  How will that work with the turkey wing tags?  Here they didn't even try to get a derogation for small breeds - if there's an EU rule then Britain will apply it even more zealously than any Brussels bureaucrat could ever have dreamed of  >:(

The colours in our Soays came about because the first ewes (unreg) we had were black, with a dark mouflon tup.  Some of the lambs were black, some moorit and some mouflon.  Then when we decided to go the registered route, we tried to find blacks and found they were very rare on mainland Britain.  We bought up all we could find - about 4 or 5 !  From one black to black mating two years running we got a piebald (ewe lamb) and a black lamb.  This last year we bought in a piebald tup for those piebald ewes and have piebald lambs plus blacks and moorits from the black to black matings.  White is extremely rare in Soays and is really spotting, so our nearly white ewe lamb really has one giant white spot !  On St Kilda, about 5% of Soays are black but piebald is extremely rare. However, there are a couple of big breeders in England who specialise in piebalds so they are now disproportionately common.  We quite like them because we used to keep Jacobs and Piebald Soays look rather like seriously deformed Jacobs  ;D  We have one dark mouflon patterned ewe hogg which I bought last year as I felt we should have some traditional coloured Soays and they are so beautiful, like little deer. Although her lambs will be mouflon they will all be black carriers as I will run her with the black tup.

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