Who is your cattle tag supplier

Watch out, they must be keeping tabs on your social media

The big thing for me now is the con job of BVD testing still going and the cost involved after so many years, should have being done away with at this stage like the brucellosis testing.

I ordered a replacement tag from Mullinahone for a cow on Tuesday 28th of May. The tag was in the post box on Thursday the 30th. IMO their service has greatly improved (thanks to competition) in the last two/three years.

It's mainly cull cows I buy here. I reckon 15% of my cows have one tag. I'm nearly finished buying so this time of year I order all the one tags. I bought two cows together in a mart and they'd one tag between the two of them only after fortnight. Last week I bought a cow in a mart with just the white dna tag on her. It's really really frustrating that if I get an inspection and I've X amount one tag its on me.

In fermoy mart last Tuesday the dept landed and pulled out about 13 cattle with one tag even at that I still ended up buying a cow with one and the dept never spotted her.

What is the Dept policy on tag replacement? I'm with Cormac and want to get replacement tags for lost ones on a few cows. It says on their site - "It is a legal requirement to replace a lost EID tag with another EID tag" but how do you know if the the cow had an EID tag originally?

What year were the EID ones made compulsory?

Great, that makes them all ordinary tags so.

Anyone know if BVD testing will continue into next year? I have calf tags to order and crazy to be ordering BVD ones if testing will stop after this year.