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The green landscape is only broken by the magnificent sight of the Herdwick tups in their pens. Side by side they stand in full bloom, striking in their familiar brick-red chalky ‘reddell’ fleeces, a long-standing Herdwick tradition that leaves a russet band that has blended into the fleece. The red colour marks the rams out from the ewes I was told when attending my first-ever annual Keswick Tup Fair, some years ago. Hundreds of years ago shepherds chose this colour because it was the easiest to spot from the bottom of the fell. The smit marks also help farmers locate and identify their fell sheep: lines or dots of colour (it might be blue, orange, red or green) will say whose flock a sheep comes from, whether a ewe is carrying twins or a single lamb, which tup has mated with which ewe, and even which lowland field a ewe was grazing before being turned out to the higher reaches of the fell. ....
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