Charmoise x wattles

[Bald n Grumpy]

Used a charmoise tup this time good lambs so far but have had one with wattles, bit of research shows it's not uncommon. What do people do anything or nothing?
Xbred lambs for fat in mkt

 

[Bury the Trash]

what is /are wattles ?

 

[Moors Lad]

what is /are wattles ?

I thought the same! Google`s your friend.... Charmoise and Merino seem to show them....

 

[Bald n Grumpy]

Skin tags under the neck like you see on some goats.
Didn't know myself until I had a lamb with them

 

[MRT]

Totally normal. Don't need to do anything!

 

[Bald n Grumpy]

Totally normal. Don't need to do anything!

How common are they in purebreds and crossbreds
Never Seen them before

 

[Hilly]

Skin tags under the neck like you see on some goats.
Didn't know myself until I had a lamb with them

What are skin tags ?

 

[Bald n Grumpy]

What are skin tags ?

Not best way to describe them as I'm not much of a word Smith, but it's skin under the neck. Easiest thing is to have a look on Google

 

[MRT]

How common are they in purebreds and crossbreds
Never Seen them before

Nearly all my pures have them, until shearing! If caught by the machine they are easily removed usually with only a little blood. In most cross breds they do not grow that large, apart from suffolk first cross rams when they are like carrots! I usually warn people what to expect. They are benign.

 

[neilo]

What are skin tags ?

I’d only ever seen them on goats, before I (briefly) had a few Charmoise ewes. I assumed it must be some sort of throwback genetic thing, going back to the Charmoise roots, but who knows?

Surprisingly, I haven’t seen any on the far more goat like Exlana sheep.

 

[BAF]

Theyre like oysters on a chicken. Catch them with a hand piece then drop them in a deep fat fryer