[Daisys Mum]

Can someone please tell me which are the best ear tags for pygmy goats?

[wytsend]

Contact Shearwell..........google them the number will come up, they are based close to Minehead.
The best ones are their Set Tag......very small and can be trimmed.

[Daisys Mum]

Thank you Wytsend 

[Brucklay]

I use Roxanne tags - a thin pin that I prefer (not everyone does but they are still in) but best of all is their applicator not  the usual pliers you have to squeeze through the ear but gun type thing that fires them through before they can scream! Works for us and Domono's are still in 1 year on unlike lots of others - it is a loop tag that I split into 2.

[little blue]

Can someone please tell me which are the best ear tags for pygmy goats?

Little ones?!
  (sorry!!)

[Daisys Mum]

Can someone please tell me which are the best ear tags for pygmy goats?

Little ones?!
   (sorry!!)

Ha Ha 

[contraflow]

 Whilst circulating our own survey into the serious welfare effects of ear tagging sheep and goats not intended for the food chain, I have come across a government consultation on alternative means of identifying sheep and goats, which will be of interest to anyone who has experienced the horrific injuries and suffering that can be caused by ear tagging. Since ear tagging was introduced it has been seen to be unnecessary mutilation by keepers of animals such as rare breed sheep, Pygmy goats and diary animals.
No one I have spoken to has been informed of the consultation which closes on the 20^th[/size]September 2013, Please show your support by visiting the links below and help circulate this information amongst like minded people. It may well be possible to change the way we identify our pets and livestock and end the unnecessary discomfort tags have caused but not without supporters.
[/size]please use the links below to access the governments consultation information and survey and our own survey into the welfare implications of ear tagging which will provide evidence to support a change in identification regulations.
Best Wishes
Juilie Westlake
1)
https://www.gov.uk/government/consultations/sheep-goats-and-deer-electronic-movement-reporting-and-identification
2)
www.tagsinsmallears.co.uk

[Brucklay]

I don't know if I read things right but it looks like they would still want to use a purple ear tag to identify an animal that has an injectable!!

[contraflow]

there is no firm guidance in place yet from what i have seen, they have looked at a change in meat animals and non meat animals separately, if it does not get passed for meat animals it has a very good case for it being changed for animals not intended for the food chain. the research document is 66 pages long and quotes many different options, but what does seem to be consistant is that they support a change is required for non food chain animals, they recognise the welfare implications of tagging but the more people who show their support the more notice they will have to take.
if it does result in one tag still being required for both food chain and non food chain animals it will be very disappointing but at least an improvement on what we have to put them through now, however this may only apply to food chain animals.

[Daisys Mum]

Clicked on the second link www.tagsinsmallears.co.uk only to be offered online BLUE MOVIES 

[ballingall]

Clicked on the second link www.tagsinsmallears.co.uk only to be offered online BLUE MOVIES 

Is your pic ok? No virus? Link worked fine for me


Beth

[Lesley Silvester]

Worked for me as well. There was a survey to be signed which I did.