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Originally Posted by Gear guy
Dave it is a huge problem with aging. With mine one thing they didn't count is the broomed off portion which was at least a year and a half. I have aged a lot of sheep and they gave mine 8 years old. I had him at 10 with the missing portions. I have other rams that have been registered with less years than I thought they should be given as well. This just proves our age class getting shot are higher than what is on paper and it is not right.
And Dave I have no idea why you would think yours did not fit the jig? They all do as long as that bottom jaw is off. I suspect you had a rookie dealing with you and was the reason a bio was not present as they are all suppose to now from what I was told.
Bdub- the dark portion may have been the past......like I said officers had all kinds of thoughts of where to measure from and I think that is why this new jig. There is no question on where the line is drawn from now except some may still use the eyeball but like mine some are using the eye socket just like days in the past with some officers when presented with a caped sheep. Now that they all need to be caped I suspect more of this eye socket business will happen.
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Not legally defining the "Eye" point of measurement is soon going to result in a court case. I suspect F&W may be waiting for the courts to do what should be their work.
Were annuli measurements taken?
F&W is also going to have a data reconciliation problem when aggregating yearly growth measurements.
Ignoring brooming, broomed off annuli, or simply getting the age wrong on rams will distort the data into an unusable mess.
They have been advised of these concerns for years now....
And here we are.