PUNK SHEEP.

A while ago now Shep and I had a discussion about colouration in sheep's wool ...

 Now mostly folks think of sheep as being white, or often with black faces. As I've mentioned before at this time of year the sheep in the heat are staring to rub off their hot fleeces and sometimes the colour is not what you'd expect ... red! The reason for this is quite simple really,

the farmer has marked the ewes that will soon be ready for market but in this case the wet weather meant that mam rubbed off her dye onto the lamb hence this sharing ...

of what looks rather gory colouration in the fleece. You can almost imagine the youngster checking out her coat as if to see if she really is a white fleeced ewe to be!

Then as they get dosed for blue tongue, worms and foot rot, other colours will appear.