Raddle harness

[beardface]

Planning to use raddle harness on some of the tups this year. What’s everyone’s preferred make?

 

[Al R]

Vegetable oil and raddle powder
No sores, no lameness, no fiddling.

 

[scholland]

Cold weather crayon warmed up and rubbed on, no mess!

 

[Highcountryshepherd]

Oil and raddle in a squegy sausce bottle no mess no lameness due to harness sores etc as said above

 

[Man_in_black]

I like the nettex one, nylon not leather. Check fit each time you swap crayon as harness come loose if he working hard, that's when it rubs.

 

[beardface]

Oil and raddle in a squegy sausce bottle no mess no lameness due to harness sores etc as said above

Don’t plan to change colour and tups will be in for 3 weeks (hopefully). It’s just to mark different groups of ewes as they run as one mob over winter. Will paste last that long from a single application?

 

[Spartacus]

The mate Mark one are the best we have. They are orange in colour so you can spot them on the off chance they fall off. Use with mate mark crayons they put plenty of mark on. Wouldn't go back to the netex crayons after using the others.

 

[jemski]

The mate Mark one are the best we have. They are orange in colour so you can spot them on the off chance they fall off. Use with mate mark crayons they put plenty of mark on. Wouldn't go back to the netex crayons after using the others.

These. The crayons click in and out easily if you do want to change colour. They don’t rub if they are fitted well.

 

[Al R]

Don’t plan to change colour and tups will be in for 3 weeks (hopefully). It’s just to mark different groups of ewes as they run as one mob over winter. Will paste last that long from a single application?

Our rams are in with 130-160 ewes per group and we remark the rams after 5 days and then put a stripe of marking fluid down the ewes left shoulder which lasts until next June shearing. This tells us what ram was used.
We do sometimes only raddle the rams once and leave them in for 4 weeks and you can still see a plain mark on new ones then.

 

[Jerry]

AS others have said, Mating Mark ones are by far the best. Fit well, lots of adjustment and seconds to change a crayon.

 

[primmiemoo]

Nettex nylon harness used here, but only on the teaser so he can mark ewes that haven't held - but only because the late Mr Johns, Saddler's hand made leather harness can no longer be mended.
Can't be doing with catching rams and changing raddles.

 

[neilo]

Don’t plan to change colour and tups will be in for 3 weeks (hopefully). It’s just to mark different groups of ewes as they run as one mob over winter. Will paste last that long from a single application?

I only buy the Mating Mark ones now, with ‘cold’ crayons so they mark them well. Much better fit than any i’ve Used before and easy to fit crayons that don’t have pins to scratch the legs. Riddle paste only much good if you catch and reapply regularly IME.

I put a spray dot on the shoulder of different ram bunches before tupping, which are still clearly visible at lambing time. Would that be a simpler option for you?

 

[Al R]

I only buy the Mating Mark ones now, with ‘cold’ crayons so they mark them well. Much better fit than any i’ve Used before and easy to fit crayons that don’t have pins to scratch the legs. Riddle paste only much good if you catch and reapply regularly IME.

I put a spray dot on the shoulder of different ram bunches before tupping, which are still clearly visible at lambing time. Would that be a simpler option for you?

Like you we also put a small dot of spray on the neck of the ewes that have gone to either texel’s(blue) or charolais(red) it means we can group accordingly and notch ewe lambs we want to keep.

 

[spin cycle]

Vegetable oil and raddle powder
No sores, no lameness, no fiddling.

how the feck do you catch and hold onto your exlana rams to do that

takes about 3 ppl to hold mine down

 

[Al R]

how the feck do you catch and hold onto your exlana rams to do that

takes about 3 ppl to hold mine down

I’m bloody hard!
All rams are done in the combi clamp first time. After that it depends which farm their at as to how their done.

 

[beardface]

I only buy the Mating Mark ones now, with ‘cold’ crayons so they mark them well. Much better fit than any i’ve Used before and easy to fit crayons that don’t have pins to scratch the legs. Riddle paste only much good if you catch and reapply regularly IME.

I put a spray dot on the shoulder of different ram bunches before tupping, which are still clearly visible at lambing time. Would that be a simpler option for you?

Will likely do this too it’s to keep an eye on tupping and see which ewes were tipped in first 3 weeks as I might put a sweeper through at around 19 days for a week if they need it

 

[neilo]

Will likely do this too it’s to keep an eye on tupping and see which ewes were tipped in first 3 weeks as I might put a sweeper through at around 19 days for a week if they need it

I dot the shoulder to mark ram mating groups, then don't raddle for the first 17 day cycle. I put harnesses on then, so that it flags up any repeats or ram problems. I obviously check that the rams are working when I looker them every day, but any unmarked ewes are to lamb to first cycle, coloured ewes are repeats.
I'm happy to save buying as many raddle marks, and I'm not even from Yorkshire.

 

[Al R]

I dot the shoulder to mark ram mating groups, then don't raddle for the first 17 day cycle. I put harnesses on then, so that it flags up any repeats or ram problems. I obviously check that the rams are working when I looker them every day, but any unmarked ewes are to lamb to first cycle, coloured ewes are repeats.
I'm happy to save buying as many raddle marks, and I'm not even from Yorkshire.

Or cardigan or breconshire