I stumbled upon two tethered lambs, one mult-colored with a neck strap around his neck and another full light colored with no neck strap. Noticing neck strap was not like the one for marking but for a vice prevention. God’s curse came to my mind.
Malachi : 1 ; 14, “Cursed is the cheat who has an acceptable male in his flock and vows to give it, but then sacrifices a blemished animal to the Lord. For I am a great king,” say the Lord Almighty, “and my name is to be feared among the nations. End of quote.
Livestock Marking/Identification
On well organized livestock farms, identification of individual animals is a very important operation for many reasons :
[a] selection programme,
[b] health programme,
[c] feeding programme,
[d] keeping livestock records,
[e] breeding purposes,
[f] pin out particular animal for precaution.
Methods of marking
[a] Branding method.
[b] Ear tagging method.
[c] Ear notching method.
[d] Tattooing method.
[e] Picture method.
[f] Neck straps and chains method.