colour for ewes

jd06

Hi , just wondering, where do people get the colour for the ewes/rams
I don't see much around maybe online?

ganmo

do you mean where the whole fleece is coloured?
https://www.animalfarmacy.ie/shop/gp-li-cd-hse/brown-bloom-colour/

or the only sections?

razor8

https://www.fanevalleystores.com/category/408/sheep-products/

jd06

ganmo wrote:

do you mean where the whole fleece is coloured?

Ya the full fleece, thanks

Iodine1

I hate seeing sheep in shows coloured brown, looks artificial and doesn't add much. It would definitely put me off buying, if I was of a mind.

AntrimGlens

Iodine1 wrote: »

I hate seeing sheep in shows coloured brown, looks artificial and doesn't add much. It would definitely put me off buying, if I was of a mind.

Why would it put you off buying? It's not like it can hide the faults in the sheep. Surely a buyer should easily be able to see through a bit of a coloured wool and clipped necks and bellies.

I'd much rather see all sheep shown either at shows or for sale in their working clothes, but you have to admit it does make a pen of sheep look more uniform if they're all dyed and clipped.

ganmo

AntrimGlens wrote: »

Why would it put you off buying? It's not like it can hide the faults in the sheep. Surely a buyer should easily be able to see through a bit of a coloured wool and clipped necks and bellies.

I'd much rather see all sheep shown either at shows or for sale in their working clothes, but you have to admit it does make a pen of sheep look more uniform if they're all dyed and clipped.

when selling breeding ewes my dad would set fire to a few furse a week or 2 before the sale so they'd get grey heads and necks from rubbing against the burnt furse more to advertise that they were on a hill then anything else.

the dyeing of the fleece to me is a sign of over management in the wrong area and yes I would walk past a pen of dyed sheep.

grassroot1

Iodine1 wrote: »

I hate seeing sheep in shows coloured brown, looks artificial and doesn't add much. It would definitely put me off buying, if I was of a mind.

Thats a bit like the buyers who say they hate sheep that are fed meal before sale.
if you try and sell sheep that are not fed you will have them for a long time.
Sheep are coloured for good reason to sell them

charolais0153

They certainly look better when they are coloured imo.

wrangler

charolais0153 wrote: »

They certainly look better when they are coloured imo.

It tightens the wool on them too, which is a great selling point, Our pedigree vendeens used to go brown anyway from the meal, the oil in the ration coming out through the skin, I see it again this year in the crossbred vendeens because we're feeding a lot of meal as there's no grass.
It doesn't seem to happen in the white texel lambs though