Laverda orange RAL 2004? Tupping brilliant

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One of the local farmers hereabouts has started using  Laverda orange as a means of detecting which ewes his ram has err....attended to. For those not familiar with such things the ram is fitted with a sort of bondage harness filled with a dye which acts as a tell tale to reveal where he has been administering his love. I can't make my mind up whether this is Ral 2004 or Ral 2008?

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You're showing an unhealthy interest in sheep there Bob.
Up in Cumbria after Chernobyl the plants on the fells apparently grew like hell after absorbing all the caesium and of course the sheep ate it all and became a bit radioactive. They were all painted one colour (might have been blue) then before slaughter they were moved for a few weeks and fed a 'clean' diet, the radioactivity dropped to 'acceptable' levels and they were repainted red or something.
No doubt there is a nuclear physicist sheep farming paitsprayer on this site who can correct any errors in the above.  :D
 
its not new Bob, its been done for 30 years to my knowledge, but blue  (Ford?) is the usuall preferred colour,the farmers that I have shepherded for also have the mums Scanned about eight weeks later in order to determine weather they have one, two (ideal) or three nippers,143 to 146 days after the bad rams (err) work.Its worth remembering that although the risks are low, pregnant women should keep away from sheep at lambing time due to the risk of cross infection of,chlamydiosis, toxoplasmosis and,listeriosis.I have personally given many lambs life, when without my help they would not have made it, its not that uncommon to have to help a new born into life, but as far as I know I am the only one who has ever saved a new born lamb by mouth to nostrel (re)susitation, think about what that entails to a new born just exited and aparently dead lamb, and because the little thing was weak and vulnerable, a few weeks later, a fox carted it off while I was in the field with a loaded rifle, just wrong place, looking elswhere etc etc
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3patC said:
You're showing an unhealthy interest in sheep there Bob.
Up in Cumbria after Chernobyl the plants on the fells apparently grew like hell after absorbing all the caesium and of course the sheep ate it all and became a bit radioactive. They were all painted one colour (might have been blue) then before slaughter they were moved for a few weeks and fed a 'clean' diet, the radioactivity dropped to 'acceptable' levels and they were repainted red or something.
No doubt there is a nuclear physicist sheep farming paitsprayer on this site who can correct any errors in the above.  :D
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Not a nuclear physicist, but I was at a nuclear facility when the cloud of filth from Chernobyl swept over S/E England. Everything went bananas and alarms were sounding everywhere from various monitors.
The worst thing apart from the free 'X' ray we all got was the Isotope Caesium 137 that fell to earth, it hangs around and is absorbed by grass easily (being similar to a salt).
Sheep eat the grass, some Caesium absorbed in the body, but the rest went out the other end and fed the grass - we have a vicious circle here and a radioactive sheep.
Luckily the half life is 30 years, so slowly but surely the problem is disappearing.
 
SimonR501 said:
That ewe does look a bit guilty - slut!
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I thought she was looking, er .........................................................................................sheepish  ::) :D
 
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