Question about tagging ewes that have lost their original tags.

Mr Rhode Island Red · 11-02-2015 11:38AM #1

I have bought 6 second crop ewes for this years lambing season. Only problem is that 2 of them have lost their tags and will now have to be re-tagged. There is no record of what the numbers were of the tags that have now been lost. What's the procedure for this?

Do I tag them with my own herd number's tags or do I have to acquire tags from the man I bought them off? How do I document this in the "census" book?

Thanks

ganmo · 11-02-2015 12:41PM

Are they bought in ewes that lost electronic tags?

Mr Rhode Island Red · 11-02-2015 01:01PM

ganmo wrote: »

Are they bought in ewes that lost electronic tags?

Yes, except the tags weren't electronic, just normal ones

ganmo · 11-02-2015 02:03PM

If you have any old ones left you can put them in if not put in a full set of electronic tags
Would the movement docket or your flock register not have the tag nos on it?

Then all you have to is record in the flock book that you've retagged ewes 123 and 124 with tags 223 and 224.

Username John · 11-02-2015 02:40PM

Mr Rhode Island Red wrote: »

Yes, except the tags weren't electronic, just normal ones

Will you not have to retag all 6 anyways with electronic tags, as you are keeping them for breeding.

So would the entry in the flock register not be "6 old tags" = "6 new electronic tags" ?

ganmo · 11-02-2015 02:47PM

You don't have to e-tag them if they're old ewes(always had white tags)...or did I pick that up wrong?

Username John · 11-02-2015 08:09PM

ganmo wrote: »

You don't have to e-tag them if they're old ewes(always had white tags)...or did I pick that up wrong?

Ah, yes - but when did EID tags come in?
I think it was 2010 was it? Or was it 2011? So if they were born before this the old white tags would do, but if they're second (or third) crop, they should have EID tags?
* I think *

Connemara Farmer · 11-02-2015 08:14PM

2nd crop? Meaning they've had two lambs? Meaning they were incorrectly tagged with old type (pre electronic) tags or incorrectly tagged with new tags?

Maybe I took up the OP wrong?

I believe the old type single non electric tag was meant to be replaced by a red tag. There is a problem with that in a ewe with a red tag can only be sold to a factory, not through a mart.

ganmo · 11-02-2015 10:08PM

Put a set of etags in her and it'll take years off her

I think white tags are 5 year old now, in that we sell breeding ewes(3&4 yo) and we made sure that there were no white tags in them

Question about tagging ewes that have lost their original tags.

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