Hardy moutons en hiver près du viaduc Ribblehead sur la vallée de la rivière Ribble, dans le Yorkshire du Nord, du nord de l'Angleterre, Hardy se rassemblent dans l'élevage de gel, dans la lumière du soir pour reste de l'alimentation animale fournies par les agriculteurs locaux hill par temps de gel, de neige couvertes de landes. La brebis swaledale sont marqués d'ocre rouge pour indiquer le statut de reproduction et pour faciliter l'identification.

• Contributeur: MediaWorldImages / Alamy Banque D'Images
• ID de l’image: D25H03
• Taille du fichier: 24,7 MB (1,5 MB Téléchargement compressé)
• Autorisations: Modèle - non | Propriété - non
• Dimensions: 3600 x 2400 px | 30,5 x 20,3 cm | 12 x 8 inches | 300dpi
• Date de la prise de vue: 14 janvier 2013
• Lieu: Ingleborough, North Yorkshire, Northern England

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Sheep with a coloured mark somewhere on their bodies is a mark of ownership, each farm will have it's own unique mark. Tups/rams are sometimes put into a harness at mating time. These harnesses have a coloured, waxy block in them, which leave a mark on the ewe when mounted, this way we know which ewes have been mated with and which haven't. After 3 weeks the colour of the crayon is changed, and any ewe that is re-mated gets the 2nd colour on her and we know she is going to be a late lamber. Ewes only begin to visibly show a pregnancy about six weeks before giving birth, so shepherds often rely on the assumption that a ram will impregnate all the ewes in a flock. However, by fitting a ram with a chest harness called a marking harness that holds a special crayon (or raddle, sometimes spelled reddle), ewes that have been mounted are marked with a color. Dye may also be directly applied to the ram's brisket. This measure is not used in flocks where wool is important, since the color of a raddle contaminates it.

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