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Livestock => Pigs => Topic started by: windymiller on January 05, 2012, 08:28:25 pm

Title: Tags
Post by: windymiller on January 05, 2012, 08:28:25 pm

Got three boars going to the butchers end of the month, we last time tagged them once loaded (did the paperwork etc) but don't currently have any tags left,
can any one reccomend a supplier and what we need, i assume its the metal number stamped type (indestrucctable ones) but do we need anything else, have the regs changed since? oh and its uk (griffiths lentwardine shrops theyre going to)

Title: Re: Tags
Post by: little blue on January 05, 2012, 09:00:32 pm

metal, one ear -
don't forget the pliers!

you might want to check with the slaughterhouse, as some have their own preferences (eg tatooing)

Title: Re: Tags
Post by: little blue on January 05, 2012, 09:02:31 pm

p.s.
suppliers:
SfS (supplies for smallholders)
fearings
ritchie
dalton

Title: Re: Tags
Post by: welshlass181 on January 05, 2012, 09:26:11 pm

I buy these ones from my local farmer shop and my abattoir takes them with no trouble and there are no applicators :) you just put them in with your hands  :pig: they go in really easy and the pigs don't even seem to notice it at all.  They are metal with printed numbers on one side and my herd number on the other side. 

(http://i66.photobucket.com/albums/h261/shellsam/Eartags4.jpg)

(http://i66.photobucket.com/albums/h261/shellsam/Eartags3.jpg)

(http://i66.photobucket.com/albums/h261/shellsam/Eartags2.jpg)

(http://i66.photobucket.com/albums/h261/shellsam/Eartags.jpg)