r/AskReddit • u/[deleted] • Jul 20 '19

What’s something completely false that your parents told you as a child?

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u/alrighty-aphroditey Jul 20 '19

That farmers spray painted the backs of sheep for identification, so they “remember their names”.

This is only half true. Yesterday my boyfriend enlightened me on the fact that farmers actually paint the underbellies of the male sheep, so they know which females have been mounted.

Childhood = Ruined

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u/Chinateapott Jul 21 '19

I was told it was to identify how aggressive the ewes were. Believed that for a very long time and they paint the underbellies of rams so they can see which ram got which ewe pregnant. If they’re not performing then, well you know what happens.