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Livestock => Sheep => Topic started by: Smee on October 19, 2018, 11:16:32 am

Title: Tag suppliers
Post by: Smee on October 19, 2018, 11:16:32 am

Who do people use for small numbers of tags these days please? The supplier I have been using for years has been taken over and the service doesn't seem to be the same plus my lot seem to loose a lot of their tags (especially the eid) which is a great pain..... :( Thanks for any recommendations.

Title: Re: Tag suppliers
Post by: SallyintNorth on October 19, 2018, 11:40:02 am

Shearwell tags are extremely robust.

Title: Re: Tag suppliers
Post by: twizzel on October 19, 2018, 12:19:23 pm

Another vote for shearwell here  :thumbsup:

Title: Re: Tag suppliers
Post by: Maysie on October 19, 2018, 01:52:21 pm

Just ordered mine from Shearwell.

Great service and reasonable prices. 

Title: Re: Tag suppliers
Post by: silkwoodzwartbles on October 19, 2018, 04:10:53 pm

We get ours from Symtag and find them excellent, great retention and super customer service  :thumbsup:

Title: Re: Tag suppliers
Post by: Buttermilk on October 19, 2018, 05:36:57 pm

Both Caisley and Dalton tags are good.  Mine are either really good sheep or I am lucky but I have not lost any tags in the last 4 years using these,  Bought in sheep always seem to be losing tags and both companies do just the odd replacement tags as well.

Title: Re: Tag suppliers
Post by: CarolineJ on October 20, 2018, 03:27:12 pm

Another vote for Shearwell here.

Title: Re: Tag suppliers
Post by: Black Sheep on October 20, 2018, 04:35:50 pm

+1 for Shearwell - prompt, easy and no issues with tags for sheep or pigs.

I just wish they didn't all need different applicators :-)

Title: Re: Tag suppliers
Post by: Tim W on October 21, 2018, 10:41:08 am

Shearwell+++
1200/1500 tags a year & i don't think i've ever had an EID tag not read
I find retention good as  well but i think a lot of that is down to the person tagging rather than the tags themselves

Title: Re: Tag suppliers
Post by: SallyintNorth on October 21, 2018, 10:49:43 am

Quote from: Tim W on October 21, 2018, 10:41:08 am

I find retention good as  well but i think a lot of that is down to the person tagging rather than the tags themselves

Actually, having moved to a farm which already had pliers for the Richie tags, so we have bought more Richie, I don’t agree with you.  I hardly ever lost a Shearwell and I am now really regretting tagging lambs early on, as several have lost tags already.  (I didn’t tag all the lambs, and we only had 18 lambs in total!) Same person tagging ;).

Title: Re: Tag suppliers
Post by: Smee on October 24, 2018, 03:29:31 pm

Righto, as the majority vote seems to be Shearwell, I'll have a go with them next time. Thanks for all the input. :)

Title: Re: Tag suppliers
Post by: bj_cardiff on October 24, 2018, 03:58:47 pm

Quote from: silkwoodzwartbles on October 19, 2018, 04:10:53 pm

We get ours from Symtag and find them excellent, great retention and super customer service  :thumbsup:

I've brought from Symtag for years too but don't find the retention that good. They have just changed suppliers though and fingers crossed these will be better..