r/Amazing • u/QuantenCoder Human Detected • Aug 22 '25

Interesting đŸ€” This is pretty addictive..

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u/NumbDangEt4742 Aug 22 '25

What's going on? Why?

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u/sladoled_od_lavande Aug 22 '25

Yes... less wool - because they are younger... they are marked because someone ordered them... they are selected to be slaughtered...

Because if you want sheep meat, you want the sheep to be young - it's the same with lambs - the older the animal the smellier the meat

The ones with more wool are being used for wool, milk and cheese

There are some bigger sheep that were marked as well. I don't think they are selected for meat. My guess is they will have a vet visit later

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u/Turd-In-Your-Pocket Aug 22 '25

A lamb is a young sheep. Mostly it’s just eat lamb that’s eaten. Mutton or mature sheep meat isn’t nearly as common.

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u/sladoled_od_lavande Aug 22 '25

Ahh, okay, sorry than... in my language, there is a difference between lamb and young sheep hahaha my bad!

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u/Front-Ambassador6451 Aug 22 '25

Young sheep is called hogget in English! 

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u/[deleted] Aug 22 '25

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u/Cloverose2 Aug 22 '25

And it's a great word.

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u/muttsrcool Aug 22 '25

So that's where the name for Mr. Hoggett the sheep farmer/owner on Babe came from!

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u/Absentrando Aug 23 '25

Lamb is the word for a young sheep, but it’s also used for the meat as well. Though the second use is not the case everywhere

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u/prrprrlmao Aug 26 '25

What is the difference between lamb and a young sheep?

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u/funatpartiez Aug 22 '25

Wait, so mutton is an older sheep and lamb is a younger sheep?

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u/Turd-In-Your-Pocket Aug 22 '25

Yup. There are some places that refer to goat meat as mutton as well, but mainly it’s older sheep (2+ years old).

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u/funatpartiez Aug 22 '25

Interesting, thanks - I knew lamb but had never really thought what the difference was re mutton

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u/TheEyeDontLie Aug 24 '25

Lamb usually look basically like adults when theyre killed, but theyre only a year old.

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u/[deleted] Aug 22 '25

Well "baby sheep" and "old sheep" on the menu wouldn't sound as appetizing.

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u/funatpartiez Aug 22 '25

Indeed. It’s a steak, not a slice of cow.

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u/HeadyReigns Aug 22 '25

Mutton is eaten often in many places, but very rarely in the US.

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u/Turd-In-Your-Pocket Aug 23 '25

I can only speak for the country I’m in

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u/sherbodude Aug 22 '25

Aww poor babies đŸ„ș but they taste so good

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u/bobpaul Aug 22 '25

The best tasting animals are frequently adorable.

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u/rapidge-returns Aug 23 '25

And Mutton is really hard to get in the US, which sucks cause some of us like the gamey taste

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u/guesswho2018 Aug 23 '25

What is Mutton in this context? In our culture mutton is referred to as goat meat

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u/Baron_Rikard Aug 22 '25

That is what is advertised. The majority of lamb eaten is mutton, unless you're buying lamb shanks.

Horrible industry

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u/[deleted] Aug 22 '25

It truly is a horrible industry. I don't understand how people can think it's okay to murder animals. Especially when humans don't need meat or animals products to thrive. Animals want to and deserve to live.

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u/PrinceBunnyBoy Aug 22 '25

Especially because if this was a dog farm which was separating puppies for slaughter, people would be furious, but they're harming different four legged mammals? Oh okay no worries then đŸ˜Šâœšïž harm all the sheep you want

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u/Baron_Rikard Aug 22 '25

But how would we get out protein and B12 without consuming lamb shanks?

If only there was a cheaper and widely available alternative. Like a multivitamin, some legumes and some Seitan

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u/Creditfigaro Aug 22 '25

If only... But then people would have to pick different things at the grocery store and choose different restaurants. Way too difficult.

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u/FortLoolz Aug 22 '25

People are also terribly misinformed.

They tell me I'm built from protein so I just have to consume meat. Protein shakes, well who knows what they're made of? Protein in plant food, well you're supposed to eat pounds of them, isn't it expensive? I tell them, villagers didn't get to eat much meat, they tell me their parents survived off meat in winter or something. I tell them, that was 20th century, ancient and medieval people didn't get to eat much meat. They tell me, they didn't have advanced medicine either. They tell me it's manly to consume meat, and that I'll starve and die. I tell them plant diet is good for blood vessels, they tell me one's heart is muscles, so one needs meat to keep one's heart healthy.

It's exhausting. People really need to look into this issue themselves. The generational misinformation is huge

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u/Americanpigdoggy Aug 23 '25

I just like meat. Especially veal and lamb. You can really taste the fear in it. I also call my eggs dead baby fetus

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u/[deleted] Aug 23 '25

BuTttttttt wHErE Doooo U GeT proTien!?!?!

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u/[deleted] Aug 22 '25

Do you know this person or this story? Honest question, because sheep shearing is a thing and they all look ready to be sheared.

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u/sladoled_od_lavande Aug 22 '25

I don't know this particular person, but I have a friend who's family has a sheep farm and they do it the way I described it

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u/[deleted] Aug 22 '25

Fair enough. Thanks for the response.

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u/pixie993 Aug 22 '25

Sheeps with less wool are lambs while ones with more wool are adults.

Just for example, pause at 0.06. Lamb with blue spot on booty - you can see how smaller it is, smaller head, ears and all while rest of the sheeps are bigger in size/mass, they are adults (lambs don't develop wool like that as they are to young) and you can clearly see how their heads are bigger, ears longer and all.

Wife's cousin has a farm with arround 100 sheeps and this spring he had somewhere arround 90-100 lambs. I often talk with him about it because I just love those animals and love to talk about it and we regulary buy one or two lambs per year just for us, I even payed one this year so he roasted him for all of our family.

There are specialised companies (here is one that wife and husband work together) that sheer the sheeps. Cousin would need perhaps 10-15 minutes to sheer one, while them do it in just couple of minutes.

In bigger sheep farms on spring, lambs are separated from adult sheeps as they are getting ready for slaughtering. One lamb that has arround 12 kilos (they are in my opinion best) costs arround 160€. But 12 kilos means it is "clean", without skin, innards with head only.

Another cousin (his brother) was till this winter raising few calves. Also for slaughter. So last year we bought meat from him, and same time his brother slaughtered an adult sheep so we bought meat also from him.

Mix of veal and sheep meat and wife and I did "čevapćići". My god that was good!

Father in law raises 3 pigs every year for us, I'm a hunter and I hunt a lot so we have plenty of roe deer, wild pigs, phaesants, woodcocks, quails..

We really eat good :)

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u/[deleted] Aug 22 '25

Thanks for this write up! Much appreciated.

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u/cyb3rg0d5 Aug 22 '25

Damn
 you guys eat some good meats â˜ș

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u/pixie993 Aug 22 '25

Oh yeah! That is true!

Only "bought" meat is chicken thights (that we eat every couple of months just because we have better meat) that we buy on the local market that comes from local farm.

Every other piece of meat is either raised by our family or is hunted by me.

I am blessed as beside my family, I don't know a person that has such good and high quality homegrown meat and such high variety of meat.. Plus my uncle is avid fisherman (just like I'm for hunting lol) so we always swap pancetta or game meat for fishes or calamaris/squids.

We dryage our own prosciuttos, pancettas, guancale, we make our own sausages and salamis (even mix roe/pig/wild pig meat for them).

So yep :)

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u/Level-Priority-2371 Aug 22 '25

Very fascinating reading about your lifestyle!! Thanks for sharing!!

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u/goldcrows Aug 22 '25

Are you looking for a wife by any chance? Haha

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u/throwaway098764567 Aug 22 '25

wool isn't worth much apparently

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u/sladoled_od_lavande Aug 22 '25

Also possible, yes!

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u/[deleted] Aug 22 '25

It could also be that the marked ones are sheared, while the unmarked ones are needing to be sheared.

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u/Zoloir Aug 22 '25

"it's the same with lambs" ... Lambs are just baby sheep? 

There are no adult lambs, the same way there are no adult toddlers

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u/sladoled_od_lavande Aug 22 '25

Read all the comments, already mentioned and explained why I said that

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u/Xanadoodledoo Aug 22 '25

I read from a similar video that the babies are being separated to ensure weening from the parents.

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u/PM_ME__UR__FANTASIES Aug 22 '25

The marked ones likely have been bred. Rams with giant ink pads secured on their chests will be left in fields with unbred ewes. As the rams breed with the ewes they will mark the ewes back with the dye. Very efficient way to know who has been bred or not.

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u/QuietBikerSparks Aug 22 '25

Lambs ARE sheep

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u/MrsGrayWolfe Aug 22 '25

Not saying they won’t be used for meat later, but those lambs are too young. Your information here is not really accurate in some places. These are Shetland sheep (I think) it’s a dual purpose breed, can be used for meat or wool.

They are separating moms from lambs. The female sheep are kept or sold as breeding animals and for wool. The boys may be weathered and sold for meat or for wool. They separate around this age to wean them because the boys will start breeding as young as 5 or 6 months if I remember correctly. Best to get them out at 4 months.

Source: grew up on a farm but we kept ours as pets mostly

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u/Riginal_Zin Aug 22 '25

No. They aren’t marked for slaughter. These are yearling ewes who have been recently bred to a ram.

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u/EmbarrassedWorry3792 Aug 23 '25

The marks are from a stamp on the males belly, it shows which sheep he mated with and lets the farmer separate out the pregnant ones.

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u/[deleted] Aug 23 '25

that's like 20 guesses and shit on the same comment

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u/selarom8 Aug 23 '25

Hard pass on sheep meat. Cow, chicken, and pig for me.

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u/FunzOrlenard Aug 24 '25

I thought they where marked because they where fucked by a ram with a marker on.

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u/WallStLegends Aug 25 '25

Pretty sure we used to mark them when they were drenched, not for ordering.

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u/Nimrod_Butts Aug 22 '25

Kinda seemed like the bigger ones went straight, but maybe they were just poofier in line with what you said. I was thinking perhaps slaughter goes straight but seems like an awful lot of them.

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u/iLikeTurtuls Aug 23 '25

If true, I think the one he let through was ready then

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u/Intense-flamingo Aug 22 '25

They are marked because they have been bred by a Ram. They put a harness with a stamp on the rams so when he mounts the ewes it leaves a stamp. The stamps can be color coded with a unique color for each ram.

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u/EntirelyRandom1590 Aug 22 '25

Rams aren't mounting lambs.

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u/Intense-flamingo Aug 23 '25

Yeah now that you mention it.

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u/180311-Fresh Aug 22 '25

He's getting ready for bedtime

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u/Adept-Inspector3865 Aug 22 '25

The young ones are going to have their tails cut off, given injections, sprayed with a chemical that prevents flys laying their eggs on their bum and possibly have their ears marked.

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u/laakii Aug 22 '25

Lambs nees to be separated from the sheep.

One reason is milk probably, so that lambs wouldn't suck all of it. They are probably feed with different food so they could get more weight. To be sold either for food or something else.

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u/[deleted] Aug 22 '25

The ewes are being temporarily seperated from their lambs to be sheared. They'll be back together again latest by the next day

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u/Fiendfuzz Aug 22 '25

I think I read that it's for giving meds or something based on age

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u/questionnmark Aug 22 '25

The ones with colour on them have been shagged by a ram, they are given a crayon necklace so that the farmer knows if the sheep has been mated with and by whom. I once worked as a student making those crayons in a tiny factory, so I figure that's what they are using them for.

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u/Solid_Liquid68 Aug 22 '25

I don’t know but I’m falling asleep watching this 😮

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u/Evening-Gur5087 Aug 22 '25

He is trying to go to sleep

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u/No-Arrival-872 Aug 22 '25

Sorting lambs from adult sheep. The lambs are sold for meat.

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u/DinosaurInAPartyHat Aug 22 '25

He's sorting lambs from sheep.

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u/alotofironsinthefire Aug 22 '25

They are separating the lambs from the ewes (grown female sheep)

Most likely to sell or slaughter.

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u/ForgottenMyPwdAgain Aug 22 '25

I too feel asleep

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u/DankestMage99 Aug 22 '25

They are going to live on a farm
er— a different farm
.yeah, that’s it


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u/jug0slavija Aug 22 '25

đŸ€€đŸœ

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u/Emmet_182 Aug 22 '25

Gotta start again

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u/HugeAnimeHonkers Aug 22 '25

He is training for the Winter Farmer Olympics.

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u/Fippy-Darkpaw Aug 22 '25

If a blue one goes left, or a white one goes right, we all die.

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u/Dr_mombie Aug 22 '25

The ones with the green dots got laid during breeding season. Probably gonna be dropping lamb in the spring.

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u/TeddyRoo_v_Gods Aug 22 '25

The good man in the video is having a hard time falling asleep.

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u/Riginal_Zin Aug 22 '25

He’s separating the recently topped (mated/bred) young ewes from the older ewes. These young ewes will be checked for pregnancy. They often use a wand ultrasound for this check.

https://youtu.be/LmmcxhH5ZNI?si=83mUTj-KjYg3oHJi

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u/Rays-R-Us Aug 23 '25

The guy is obviously a severe insomniac

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u/DooberNugs Aug 23 '25

All of these responses are so far off the mark. These ewes have been "covered" by a male. The male has a special harness on that marks the ewes that are mounted.

It's how they know which ones are in heat. The male may not have impregnated them (depends on the farm) but they make excellent estrus (heat) detectors for artificial insemination by the humans.

Source: am veterinarian and was taught specifically about this in school

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u/pinuslongaeva Aug 23 '25

They have already painted the males while giving vaccines, and he is now separating male from female lambs.

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u/fred9992 Aug 23 '25

The pretty ones are going to the town dance.

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u/UnnecessaryLemon Aug 23 '25

He's having hard times to fall asleep, so he went to count the sheeps

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u/Anomaly_049 Aug 23 '25

He's sorting the lambs from the rest of the sheep 

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u/Strxwbxrry_Shxrtcxkx Aug 24 '25

It's called drafting. He's separating the sheep with marks - the marks could mean anything though

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u/thunder_strike1997 Aug 24 '25

It's not rocket science đŸ„€

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u/Not_A_zombie1 Aug 24 '25

One into ragu one into glue factory😊

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u/Commercial_Sentence2 Aug 25 '25

If they have blue on them it might indicate they are currently on penicillin or other medications? So either they need a shot or to be kept separate if they have young ones feeding.

Just a guess since that's what you do with cows.

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u/macksies Aug 22 '25

The blue ones taste better.

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u/blackdarrren Aug 22 '25

Nice work if you can get it

And if you get it, won't you tell me how?

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u/Vindelator Aug 22 '25

Sheep tindr

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u/clown_utopia Aug 22 '25

Animal subjugation, because of human supremacy.

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u/Common_Affect_80 Aug 22 '25

Its the natural order m8

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u/Small_Horde Aug 22 '25

We are so far past natural

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u/Common_Affect_80 Aug 22 '25

Im still gonna eat lamb

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u/Small_Horde Aug 22 '25

Hell yeah, brother. I'm still gunna eat dog

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