At our place boys don't get names unless bottle fed, girls get names,
all are tagged.
On 7/1/2013 10:44 PM, Mark Wintermute wrote:
I mostly fall into Rick's ideology here. The lambs "name" starts with the
year, then their numerical sequence of their birth, followed by an
abbreviated description and codon 171 status. So an example of this name
format is "13018 BBB kr twin +". This means this lamb was born in 2013, was
the 18th lamb born, is Barbados Blackbelly, codon 171 kr (lower case being
untested but likely and upper case guaranteed, born a twin, and the + means
he has a chance of carrying the Booroola gene. The gender, sire, dam, tag
numbers and other information are linked to this name by the computer
tracking software. The only sheep that get names are the All Stars, Bottle
Babies, and those with good or bad personality traits (Knee Breaker,
Precious, Spunky, Big Boy and Psycho come to mind). Just to many sheep to
name them all here.
Mark Wintermute
-----Original Message-----
From: blackbelly-boun...@lists.blackbellysheep.info
[mailto:blackbelly-boun...@lists.blackbellysheep.info] On Behalf Of Rick
Krach
Sent: Monday, July 01, 2013 5:14 PM
To: blackbelly Blackbelly List
Subject: Re: [Blackbelly] Blackbelly Digest, Vol 9, Issue 29
In my humble opinion sheep are farm animals and not pets; therefore, I never
give them names. If "names" are required for registration, then simple
numbers like: 13A1,13 for the year, A for the ewe, and 1 for number in the
liter.
Rick Krach
in Auburn, CA
Today's Topics:
1. Naming schemes for lambs (Carol J. Elkins)
2. Re: Naming schemes for lambs (Elizabeth Radi)
_______________________________________________
This message is from the Blackbelly mailing list
Visit the list's homepage at %http://www.blackbellysheep.info
_______________________________________________
This message is from the Blackbelly mailing list
Visit the list's homepage at %http://www.blackbellysheep.info
