I'm struggling to get my head around the replacement rules for ear tags.
I have three animals that are not double tagged. I would be really grateful if someone could read through my list and check that I'm doing the right thing. None of the animals were born here and as the minimum order quantity for tags seems to be 10, I think I'm better off removing remaining tags and inserting a new pair of tags than buy a whole set of tags with someone else's flock number on but I might have got this wrong too.
This years lamb - has lost her EID tag
Plan: Remove remaining tag and replace with new pair of matching tags - 1 EID, 1 non EID. Do these both need to be red?
Ewe born 2008 - has lost one tag.
As born in 2008 needs to be double tagged but no need for EID?
Plan: Remove remaining tag and replace with new pair of non EID tags.
Ewe born 2006 - only has 1 tag.
As born in 2006 a single tag is ok so no action needed?
Got the Defra 'Ear tagging replacement rules' in front of me and am still confused. Can you even yet EID tags that are red?
Thank you.