Baymule
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I’ve used little bottles of food coloring, waiting for lambs to go to mom for milk. A squirt and “blue” gets a scrapie tag and written down who mom is. LOL Got to get them tagged because mom licks the color off.
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Ridgetop
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Used that trick to mark puppies. Was planning to use it this year but no food color. When we go to California for doctors' appts in June and to see new grandson, will go t Smart N final and get the large individual bottles of food coloring.
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Mike CHS
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All of those born yesterday were weighed and tagged plus our oldest ewe (26) had a single lamb during the night.
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Did Teresa get them all to reveal their secrets of who belongs to whom????
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Congrats on another addition... Of course you know they were waiting for a little "cool down" to present them to you... HA HA.
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Mike CHS
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We just put all of the lambs that haven't been tagged into the entrance to the chute and open the gate from the stall where the ewes are. All of the ewes that have lambs in the chute will stay in and the rest will leave. That makes it easy to let them sort themselves out. 
The way we work around them all of the time they aren't skittish so it's no problem catching them.
The way we work around them all of the time they aren't skittish so it's no problem catching them.farmerjan
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When we were trying to figure out all the calves on those cows he brought home from pasture for the preg check... the calves had been tagged but none of the cows were... we tagged the cows as they went through the chute and then about 2 hours later, turned out one calf at a time and watched to see who they went to and SUCKED.... Took about 2 hours or more to do it one by one... we had an idea of a couple, but some were really hard... because they would go to a cow, but because they were not little babies, it took awhile before they actually went on and sucked... We also had sorted the cows into a couple groups as to where they were going to get moved to.... but got them matched... Much easier to do it with littler ones... they go to momma to get a drink as a "sense of security" thing. and the cow will mother up on a little calf quicker.
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Mike CHS
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It is supposed to get down in the single digits tonight. We added a couple more heat lamps in the stall and of course left it open. We have put out heat lamps for as long as we have been raising sheep and they rarely get under them but they seem to know that it's going to be colder tonight and the whole flock is in the stall.
Baymule
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Sheep are smarter than people give them credit for. I’m sure your girls are enjoying the warm protected from the wind and weather safe place y’all have for them.
Ridgetop
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In really cold temps heat lamps can give just enough warmth to make the difference between life and death. We are working on installing ours now. They should all be in by the time the temperatures warm up! 
