Happy Birthday puppies
4 boys waiting on arrival of #5
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Our ear tag system uses different colors based upon the sire Ram, different ear is tagged based upon the gender of the lamb (left ears for ram lambs, right ears for ewe lambs), and sequential numbers based upon birth order in each year. We then record this information associated with the mom. Prior to sale the sheep are required to have an official USDA ear tag which lists our farm ID and an individual animal ID and we must record this ID with the animal records we are required to keep. For those lambs we will be keeping we replace the lamb tag with a permanent animal ID tag and we record this in our records.
We're still improving our record keeping and will be purchasing a database program designed for flock record keeping to use instead of an app (less powerful) we have on our IPad. We are also moving towards larger adult ear tags (we use button tags about the size of a quarter) to aid in reading tags on moving animals. The smaller tags were chosen to minimize snagging of tags on wire fences resulting in the ear tags being ripped out.
We're still improving our record keeping and will be purchasing a database program designed for flock record keeping to use instead of an app (less powerful) we have on our IPad. We are also moving towards larger adult ear tags (we use button tags about the size of a quarter) to aid in reading tags on moving animals. The smaller tags were chosen to minimize snagging of tags on wire fences resulting in the ear tags being ripped out.
