Cleaning lambs

[Paddington]

We tend to mark our WH's following treatments with stock marker - technicolour lambs, only we now need to clean them for selling. What's the best cleaner ? They are out in the rain which usually does the trick, but the rain is due to stop tonight. Stock marker contains acetone, can you purchase nail varnish remover in litre bottles ?

 

[spin cycle]

We tend to mark our WH's following treatments with stock marker - technicolour lambs, only we now need to clean them for selling. What's the best cleaner ? They are out in the rain which usually does the trick, but the rain is due to stop tonight. Stock marker contains acetone, can you purchase nail varnish remover in litre bottles ?

really ...better to change marking system?......why have you got to clean them?,,,is WH wiltshire horn?

 

[Al R]

If marking anything for sale I tend to mark everything that isn’t or put a very small 20p dot ontop of the head, it’s enough to draft off but washes off quicker off the hair on the head than wool on their back...

 

[Paddington]

really ...better to change marking system?......why have you got to clean them?,,,is WH wiltshire horn?

WH is Wiltshire Horn, we are not normally bothered if they are going for slaughter, but these will be going as store lambs and a buyer may be put off.

 

[Al R]

WH is Wiltshire Horn, we are not normally bothered if they are going for slaughter, but these will be going as store lambs and a buyer may be put off.

Yes multiple marks people often think they’ve been through multiple dealers or so I’ve heard

 

[Anymulewilldo]

Multicoloured sheep never bothered me very much when buying feeders. Even though I never put any marks other than our mark on the lambs.

 

[clod hopper]

If you only want a mark for a short turm try coloured chork, use the chunky ones

 

[primmiemoo]

Wax crayon inna stick works well as a temporary mark, too. Lasts about a fortnight, so gone by when the retention time is up for any doses.

 

[spin cycle]

WH is Wiltshire Horn, we are not normally bothered if they are going for slaughter, but these will be going as store lambs and a buyer may be put off.

i presume you've tried marmalade

 

[Nithsdale]

Wax crayon inna stick works well as a temporary mark, too. Lasts about a fortnight, so gone by when the retention time is up for any doses.

This.

Mark them on the hairs on the top/back of the head. Lasts a very short period of time

 

[Yale]

Short term in the pen I grab a fresh sheep sh!t and smother the back of the head.

 

[primmiemoo]

Why do I suddenly have visions of @Paddington out there busy under a gibbous moon with a big sponge, and a bucket full of manes 'n' tails pony shampoo solution?

 

[neilo]

Short term in the pen I grab a fresh sheep sh!t and smother the back of the head.

Crikey! I thought I could be ‘careful’ at times.....

Have you found a way of putting this useful material into an empty marker stick container yet?

 

[clod hopper]

Crikey! I thought I could be ‘careful’ at times.....

Have you found a way of putting this useful material into an empty marker stick container yet?

No, he shoots from the hip with a drench gun!

 

[Anymulewilldo]

What would happen if you sprayed white on top of other colours

They'd look a right mess? Sheep aren't white

 

[sheepwise]

In the days of the live grading the grader would put a red line down the back of a reject lamb(too fat or lean). Not the first time we would take the lamb home, clean the mark off with a petrol soaked rag and the take it back in with the second load and have it passed in-spec by the same grader.

 

[Farmer_Joe]

i use a small yellow dot if i really need to mark them for something at back of neck, usually just disappears after a few weeks or if remark them for stores/fat i go over top with darker colour then they still look neat.

trying to wash off a mark sounds like pissing in the wind, what were you thinking when you put it all on?