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Sheep tagging

  • 18-11-2016 10:17PM
    #1
    karolmc100
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 283 ✭✭


    I bought a number of sheep recently with only 1 tag .I am keeping them for breeding.what is the tagging procedure do I cut out this tag and put in two of my own


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  • #2
    rangler1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,497 ✭✭✭rangler1


    karolmc100 wrote: »
    I bought a number of sheep recently with only 1 tag .I am keeping them for breeding.what is the tagging procedure do I cut out this tag and put in two of my own

    We had two inspections last year and both inspectors insisted that you can't cut out a tag but I was sure you could if you correlated the numbers with the new tags.....any way they backed down and i haven't heard anything since, we must've been right.

    Here's your options from their own rules.

    ) Ordering a matching single conventional mart tag for the left ear
    bearing the same tag number as the existing EID Tag in the right
    ear;
    or

    (b) Re-tagging with a new EID Tag or Bolus Set and correlating
    the new tag number to the old tag number in the flock register


  • #3
    ganmo
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,743 ✭✭✭ganmo


    Just to add to that rangler, you'll have to note the full tag number of the tag ya cut out, that is with the 12 digit flock identifier


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