replacing tags

flatout11

is anyone else had to replace more than the normaL of tags this winter...... ?
also have a fair few tags with the backs broken off

Attie

flatout11 wrote: »

is anyone else had to replace more than the normaL of tags this winter...... ?
also have a fair few tags with the backs broken off

Flatout
Would they be inside ?? if so look at the feed barrier any sharp edges.

flatout11

Attie wrote: »

Flatout
Would they be inside ?? if so look at the feed barrier any sharp edges.

inside in 3 different sheds - same barriers as every other year

Drawinhard!!

Always happens to us every year inside and out really
piss me off having to order new tags sometimes come across the tags on the ground around the gates and feed barriers. Strange thing !)

tanko

Dont know about anyone else but im well fed up having to buy ten or twelve replacement tags every year. All the tags break at the same place. No effort is being made to improve the design of them. I suppose this is what happens when there is only one tag supplier, its not in their interest to improve them.

6480

tanko wrote: »

Dont know about anyone else but im well fed up having to buy ten or twelve replacement tags every year. All the tags break at the same place. No effort is being made to improve the design of them. I suppose this is what happens when there is only one tag supplier, its not in their interest to improve them.

are they a fever each to replace as i need over 20 didnt check them in a while to see any missing it was that i was testing the other day that i seen so many

Bodacious

I put them well by the head as calves and let the ears grow around them as protection and find we loose alot less/none in the younger cattle/cows compared to when the tags were further towards the tip of the ear!!

Pain in the A** for the AI man writing the docket if she has good hairy ears though

larthehar

I'm also having excess tags falling out this year, I've put it down to the cattle having lice and scratching themselves more than usual. Apparently there are more lice than other years, no pour-on worked for me, i ended up drowning them with sheep dip! cleaned them up!
If there not scratching due to lice, there could be any number of reasons...

tanko

Replacement tags are 2.34 for singles 3.15 for a pair and 5.23 for post and packaging. If the the tags were designed properly, no amount of scratching should cause them to break in half and fall off.