The Accidental Smallholder Forum
Livestock => Sheep => Topic started by: twizzel on May 14, 2012, 10:05:30 pm
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We have 6 lambs who are now weaned off milk (yay!) and demolishing creep feed and hay! They will soon be turned out in a field with bullocks, and also 5 other lambs which are not ours. All 11 lambs here are tagged.
Is it possible to tag them with a separate tag in the other ear just so we can visually identify our 6 lambs without catching them and reading their blue slaughter tag? Would they still be able to go for slaughter... they already have blue slaughter tags from the holdings we got them from.
In a 10 acre field with 5 others and 20 bullocks, an extra coloured tag would be very helpful to see whose lambs are whose whilst we whizz round on the quad every am and pm...
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Yes you can put 'management tags' in. We've been trying the Dalton 'temp tags' but they are only really suitable to apply to very young lambs so maybe not best in your situation. Fleecewife uses a different colour tag, I think? And a few people have recommended using turkey poult tags from Ketchum.
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If you just want to see who belongs to you why not just use spray stock marker and put a spot or a letter or a number on them....ok it needs redoing from time to time but cheaper and easier? :wave:
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Could do but some are black and white mules so even bright red stock spray doesn't show up, we tried it when we first got them :(
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Roxan do a decent management tag as well.
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You could tie a pretty ribbon in their wool, especially if they have top-knots ;D
The turkey wing tags are just to identify lambs close up and have a number on. We change them for their permanent tags at 4 months. There's nothing to stop you getting blank tags of any colour for your own flock management.
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Yes you can put in your own tags for keeping records of your breeding flock etc... and in our case.,, naming my God Daughters pet :-)
We found Rotatag was best after a few disasters with others getting caught.
DOns x