TIL the food dye might be an ovine thing: https://www.rawlinshaw.co.uk/tupping-time https://www.rawlinshaw.co.uk/tupping-time > If the female is receptive, she

TIL the food dye might be an ovine thing: https://www.rawlinshaw.co.uk/tupping-time https://www.rawlinshaw.co.uk/tupping-time > If the female is receptive, she will stand for mating. So that we know when a ewe has been mated, we place a coloured liquid underneath the ewe or place a harness on the tup which hold a coloured crayon. We change the colour at certain intervals so we know who has been mated when. This explains why you see sheep with different coloured bottoms all over Yorkshire!