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Livestock => Sheep => Topic started by: firemansam on October 12, 2012, 01:52:46 pm

Title: tagging
Post by: firemansam on October 12, 2012, 01:52:46 pm: I have 6 new sheep, they are tagged from the previous owner.
Do I tag them with my own tags?
Title: Re: tagging
Post by: Foobar on October 12, 2012, 02:02:24 pm: Nope. Sheep are tagged with their holding of birth. Those remain with them forever, unless they lose those tags then they get replaced with tags from the current holding.
Title: Re: tagging
Post by: colliewoman on October 12, 2012, 02:42:41 pm: Nope leave them be.
If your ewes lose their tags you replace them with identical ones if you know the details, if you don't you replace them with RED replacement tags with your flock mark.
Each ewe should have (depending on age) a normal ear tag with uk # and individual #
AND a yellow EID tag. Lambs could be moved on a single slaughter tag, but if you are going to keep them you need to double tag :thumbsup:
Title: Re: tagging
Post by: Mallows Flock on October 12, 2012, 02:44:30 pm: I just double tag all my lambs as that way when I decide I am gonna keep them all after all I can! LOL! :innocent:
Title: Re: tagging
Post by: colliewoman on October 12, 2012, 02:48:00 pm: Same here, with the small numbers I have it doesn't make much difference to me to have the extra cost of 2 tags :D
Title: Re: tagging
Post by: Mallows Flock on October 12, 2012, 02:56:41 pm: Oooh now you have 4.5 acres as well you can have hundreds!
If I had the amount of land you have now, it would be really, really dangerous!!! LOL
Title: Re: tagging
Post by: SteveHants on October 12, 2012, 04:27:50 pm: I always reckon its worth double-tagging anyway - I don't think you could sell your stragglers as stores if they hadn't got two tags..
Title: Re: tagging
Post by: firemansam on October 12, 2012, 04:39:10 pm: And is that the same with goats, tagged for life?
Title: Re: tagging
Post by: woollyval on October 12, 2012, 05:24:41 pm: Quote from: firemansam on October 12, 2012, 04:39:10 pm
And is that the same with goats, tagged for life?
YES
Title: Re: tagging
Post by: Anke on October 12, 2012, 07:30:48 pm: Quote from: woollyval on October 12, 2012, 05:24:41 pm
Quote from: firemansam on October 12, 2012, 04:39:10 pm
And is that the same with goats, tagged for life?
YES
I wish.... not yet had a goat that still has got ots birth tag after a couple of years....
Title: Re: tagging
Post by: woollyval on October 12, 2012, 09:00:58 pm: Quote from: Anke on October 12, 2012, 07:30:48 pm
Quote from: woollyval on October 12, 2012, 05:24:41 pm
Quote from: firemansam on October 12, 2012, 04:39:10 pm
And is that the same with goats, tagged for life?
YES
I wish.... not yet had a goat that still has got ots birth tag after a couple of years....

He meant same number not same tag..... ;D
Title: Re: tagging
Post by: Brucklay on October 13, 2012, 08:08:12 pm: [size=78%]I wish.... not yet had a goat that still has got ots birth tag after a couple of years....[/size]

He meant same number not same tag..... ;D

:roflanim: :roflanim: Totally thinking like Anke - wish mine would manage a year or so - although I do have a five year old female with her original tag (2 days before double tags) :thumbsup: :thumbsup: