I can't read ear tags on sheep very well. I run my ewes through the race and paint brand the on the off side just before lambing on pasture. A few hours after they lamb, I use spray line and number the lambs with their mother's number. I use blue for ram lambs and green for ewe lambs. Visible numbers can help in mismothering or lost lamb situations. The two different colors helps me to easily draft off the ram lambs from the ewe lambs in the fall. I also put a red dot on the withers of triplet lambs and usually pull the smallest male to go to my neighbor that buys all my bottle lambs. I also, check eyes for inverted eyelids and dip navels. I ear notch twins to make it easy to sort them off later to retain for replacements or potential rams for sale.

So why split up the twins from the triplets and quads?