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Selling cattle with a tag missing

  • 29-04-2013 7:33am
    #1
    RobinBanks
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 953 ✭✭✭


    Hello everyone. I am going to the mart tomorrow with a couple of weanlings but I noticed yesterday that one of them has lost a tag. Will I be able to sell her with 1 tag missing? I will ring them later but was looking for feedback here first.


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  • #2
    sh1tstirrer
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,489 ✭✭✭sh1tstirrer


    I see plenty cattle going through marts with one tag and horns. If the department men were there they would have something to say about it.


  • #3
    whelan1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 11,786 ✭✭✭✭whelan1


    sh1tstirrer wrote: »
    I see plenty cattle going through marts with one tag and horns. If the department men were there they would have something to say about it.
    i wouldnt take it with 1 tag... our mart turns them back


  • #4
    kfk
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 546 ✭✭✭kfk


    RobinBanks wrote: »
    Hello everyone. I am going to the mart tomorrow with a couple of weanlings but I noticed yesterday that one of them has lost a tag. Will I be able to sell her with 1 tag missing? I will ring them later but was looking for feedback here first.

    Give the mart a ring. I know of a couple of marts here that will just tell you to book the cattle in a bit later when the dept inspector has left.


  • #5
    razor8
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,332 ✭✭✭razor8


    i hope an inspector doesnt read this thread!


  • #6
    dharn
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,574 ✭✭✭dharn


    razor8 wrote: »
    i hope an inspector doesnt read this thread!

    Buyers could be put off, bother of tagging when bought, and dept will turn the back if spotted


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  • #7
    RobinBanks
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 953 ✭✭✭RobinBanks


    razor8 wrote: »
    i hope an inspector doesnt read this thread!

    If it makes people like me become more compliant with rules it might be no harm if they do!


  • #8
    sh1tstirrer
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,489 ✭✭✭sh1tstirrer


    whelan1 wrote: »
    i wouldnt take it with 1 tag... our mart turns them back
    Rightly so if more marts did this they would have to retag instead of handing the problem over to the buyer.


  • #9
    Dampintheattic
    Closed Accounts Posts: 839 ✭✭✭Dampintheattic


    sh1tstirrer wrote: »
    Rightly so if more marts did this they would have to retag instead of handing the problem over to the buyer.


    Quality of tags, is pure sh1t, if you ask me.
    Money spinning racket. Pure and simple.


  • #10
    Nobbies
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 352 ✭✭Nobbies


    order the tag 1st thing in the morning and annouce it through auctioneer,she lost it over the weekend and u ordered it this morning,and uwill leave it in mart office for buyer too collect next day they are there.


  • #11
    pakalasa
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,552 ✭✭✭pakalasa


    Dampintheattic wrote: »
    Quality of tags, is pure sh1t, if you ask me.
    Money spinning racket. Pure and simple.
    Not doing cattle for lice over the winter doesn't help either.


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  • #12
    Dampintheattic
    Closed Accounts Posts: 839 ✭✭✭Dampintheattic


    I think, when there is a monopoly in the supply of any product, the consumer is going to come out second best ALL the time.
    Mullinahone have had this contract ALL to themselves since the start of this system , racket.
    Poor quality tags. Pathetic website, where you cannot order online, properly.
    Print off oder forms, fill in with biro, post it back or fax it. If you needed two tags for the same animal, you have to fill in the number twice on the form:eek:
    You cant just fill the qty 2 in a box.
    Then the charge a stupid price for post and packaging:mad:

    Why the foooook, can the deptnot introduce competition into this market?


  • #13
    whelan1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 11,786 ✭✭✭✭whelan1


    Dampintheattic wrote: »
    I think, when there is a monopoly in the supply of any product, the consumer is going to come out second best ALL the time.
    Mullinahone have had this contract ALL to themselves since the start of this system , racket.
    Poor quality tags. Pathetic website, where you cannot order online, properly.
    Print off oder forms, fill in with biro, post it back or fax it. If you needed two tags for the same animal, you have to fill in the number twice on the form:eek:
    You cant just fill the qty 2 in a box.
    Then the charge a stupid price for post and packaging:mad:

    Why the foooook, can the deptnot introduce competition into this market?
    my thoughts exactly and the answering machine drives me mental..... up until a few months ago they didnt even have their phone number on the website........:(


  • #14
    hugo29
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,267 ✭✭✭hugo29


    whelan1 wrote: »
    my thoughts exactly and the answering machine drives me mental..... up until a few months ago they didnt even have their phone number on the website........:(

    talking to Whelan1 about Mullinahone is like waving a red rag to a bull:D

    speaking of which got to order some replacement bvd tags,:(


  • #15
    dharn
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,574 ✭✭✭dharn


    Bad abvice, you would have the bother of tagging the animal with a blank tag that would surely arouse the suspicion of the mart people dept etc


  • #16
    3 the square
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 695 ✭✭✭3 the square


    dude do that at home long before any of that lot get a look in never failed me .. yet:eek:


  • #17
    simx
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,556 ✭✭✭simx


    dharn wrote: »
    Bad abvice, you would have the bother of tagging the animal with a blank tag that would surely arouse the suspicion of the mart people dept etc

    i think the idea was that it would be so dirty that anyone looking would only be able to see a bare outline of a yellow tag


  • #18
    pakalasa
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,552 ✭✭✭pakalasa


    3 the square wrote: »
    nip down to gud agri shop get a yellow blank tag same size as proper tag cover it in gud dose of cow sh#t tag d animal looks d part in d ring not half as bad as no tag and no nice guy from department wil be arsed to try clean it to see wat d story is with it :)
    Do you get many department inspections? :D
    What happens the next guy that buys it? He'll ring the dept and ask what he should do with this blank tag. They'll ask for the tag number and see that the animal went through your herd last. Or the animal goes straight to slaughter and is hanging up with only a blank tag. Time for an inspection.
    I bit of cop-on wouldn't go astray.


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