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Removing calf tags

  • 15-07-2012 8:47pm
    #1
    wexf0rd
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 39 ✭


    Hi. I was tagging 2 calves the other day and accidently put one wrong tag in each calf if you know what i mean. I only noticed afterwards.
    So im just wondering if there is any way of removing the tags or do i have to order new ones?
    Thanks in advance


Comments

  • #2
    charityboy
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 258 ✭✭charityboy


    there probably is but i doubt anyone would be foolish enough to post it up here cut out the wrong ones and order two replacements would be the way to go


  • #3
    Bizzum
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,034 ✭✭✭Bizzum


    The tags are tamper proof so cant be removed easily without destruction. I'd order what I need and replace the wrong ones when I had the new ones to hand.
    When you think about it, it's a mistake that could easily happen. I wonder what's the official line?


  • #4
    Muckit
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,174 ✭✭✭✭Muckit


    I remember one year the vet during the TB test the vet caught a calf by the lug and managed to accidently pull tag straight off...:mad: Seems a small thing that could happen to anyone, but still more time, money and HASSLE. Plus worse when a calf pulls out a tag, as a bigger V gone out of the ear when they grow


  • #5
    Figerty
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,274 ✭✭✭Figerty


    Had a Weanling that broke a tag the night before going to the mart.
    It broke half way down the stem. Rather than hold the calf for another day I got an black M4 screw and managed to screw it in to the other half. Once that worked I took it apart and did it on the weanling while he was standing up.

    If the ear had been torn, or the tag broken somewhere else, i wouldn't have been able to fix it.


  • #6
    Kovu
    Closed Accounts Posts: 14,241 ✭✭✭✭Kovu


    Happened to us before OP. There was a two day argument between my dad as to whether number 0157 was a bull or heifer calf.......turns out we were both right!


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  • #7
    blue5000
    Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 12,756 Mod ✭✭✭✭blue5000


    Kovu Murr wrote: »
    Happened to us before OP. There was a two day argument between my dad as to whether number 0157 was a bull or heifer calf.......turns out we were both right!

    And which one of ye did the tagging??:o

    If the seat's wet, sit on yer hat, a cool head is better than a wet ar5e.



  • #8
    Kovu
    Closed Accounts Posts: 14,241 ✭✭✭✭Kovu


    blue5000 wrote: »
    And which one of ye did the tagging??:o

    I was at college so it was the neighbour :P


  • #9
    cow man
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 53 ✭✭cow man


    I once tagged two calves then I noticed i had put the front part of one tag and the back part of the other in each calf, Luckily in was only one ear on each calf so I got scissors and cut off the part that was wrong just above the numbers


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