Tupping crayons

TexelBen

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Livestock Farmer

Location

North Yorkshire

• Sep 28, 2020

• #1

We've always used Mate mark cold crayons, (sometimes used nettex) they used to be spot on, but the quality of the mark seems to be getting worse and worse.
Straps fitted properly and the tups give them a good "rubbing"
Anyone found a better brand?

 

scottish-lleyn

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Mixed Farmer

Location

South east scotland

• Sep 28, 2020

• #2

Flexmark are what ive been using the last few years leave a decent mark

 

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Cluster_monkey

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Location

Lancashire

• Sep 28, 2020

• #3

scottish-lleyn said:

Flexmark are what ive been using the last few years leave a decent mark

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Second that best crayon out there, not many places stock them tho!

 

Andyt880

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Livestock Farmer

Location

Co. Down

• Sep 28, 2020

• #4

scottish-lleyn said:

Flexmark are what ive been using the last few years leave a decent mark

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Do they fit into the nettex harness?

 

scottish-lleyn

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Mixed Farmer

Location

South east scotland

• Sep 28, 2020

• #5

Andyt880 said:

Do they fit into the nettex harness?

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Most crayons will fit most harnesses with a bit of a wiggle i find, but i only have a couple of net tex harnesses and the rest are mating mark.

 

Mc115reed

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Livestock Farmer

• Sep 28, 2020

• #6

TexelBen said:

We've always used Mate mark cold crayons, (sometimes used nettex) they used to be spot on, but the quality of the mark seems to be getting worse and worse.
Straps fitted properly and the tups give them a good "rubbing"
Anyone found a better brand?

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Used mate mark this year and I found all the suffolk tups made a hell of a mark... and the texel tups you had too squint too spot the marks...

 

TexelBen

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Livestock Farmer

Location

North Yorkshire

• Sep 28, 2020

• #7

Mc115reed said:

Used mate mark this year and I found all the suffolk tups made a hell of a mark... and the texel tups you had too squint too spot the marks...

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Must be those heavy boned legs

 

Gator

Never Forgotten

Honorary Member

Location

Lancashire

• Sep 28, 2020

• #8

I just rub some raddle on now, just so i know if there working and when to expect the first lambs. easy enough to rub some more on wi a bit of tub

 

neilo

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Mixed Farmer

Location

Montgomeryshire

• Sep 28, 2020

• #9

Wynnstay tell me that they aren’t stocking Mating Mark crayons any more, but the Nettex ones have apparently Mating Mark harnesses (need to check on the box that they are ‘new type’ though). Unfortunately those Nettex ones are still their rock hard/don’t bother marking ‘all weather’ types though.
If I had been happy with those I wouldn’t have changed to the ‘cold’ Mating Mark crayons & harnesses!