New calves showing off their bling!
On our farm we use eartags to give each animal an unique identifier that allows us to keep important health records for each animal. Here are a few pictures that show the tags up close.
This is used to apply the tags similar to how ears are pierced for earrings
The tags are applied in a similar fashion to earrings through a soft portion of the ear. Each tag is self contained and is clean and sterile.
Each tag has 2 parts this is the male part
Cow bling has a lot of information about the animal
The information of the tags includes our farm brand (starting at the very top of the biggest tag), next is the unique “840″ number assigned to only this animal in the United States, followed by the unique number for our farm, in this case 2129. The small white tag has the same numbers and also id an EID tag that contains an RFID information. We currently do not utilize the RFID tag outside of visual use however are we will be implementing the electronic reading in the future to help with efficiency and to eliminate human error.
Curious about the camera, and showing the bling!
Do they make any with rhinestones?
Posted by judi @ farmnwife.com | January 16, 2012, 8:03 AMI’m sure some crafty soul could figure it out.
Posted by raylindairy | January 16, 2012, 8:38 AM#Normathebestcowever has a blinged out tag
It’s even pink!
Posted by DairyCarrie | January 16, 2012, 9:16 AMWhile working at the University Dairy in Middle Tennessee, we switched from the neck tranponders to the EID tags. It’s working much better and saves time in the parlor. I thought it was neat to see how dairy farmers utilize EID in record keeping. We also used EID tags in the bull test station to identify bulls that will be sold. I also used the tags in Age-Source verification programs in the feedyards. An interesting way cattle farmers utilize technology for better food production! Thanks for sharing Ray!
Posted by Ryan Goodman | January 16, 2012, 9:00 AM