I believe they are using the pastern band in New Zealand ( a goatkeeper friend was judging out there very early this year and saw them).
It's interesting to see the problems you are all having, I am glad we are not having to use the EID tags for the goats (at the moment anyway!). Even the ordinary tags do enough damage to a goats ear. I have a 1 year old, who has an incredibly bad reaction to ear tags. She has such bad scar tissue, that I cannot get a tag through certain bits of her ear...
Bteh