Talking yesterday to Sally Pidcock, Country Park Warden, I had some sad news about the black goat kid which was born on the Great Orme this year. When the goat and its white twin were first born, the Wardens were sent a number of photos of the goats in which the mother could be identified by her ear tag. The same nanny was later seen without any kids, so neither of them survived.
The nanny has an ear tag as she is one of the control group which received a "dummy" treatment as part of the test of the contraceptive treatment which has been given to a proportion of the nannies as part of the herd management.