The Advantages to Tagging Your Cows
Identifying your cattle is a must for all types of records systems, from inventory to performance. While hot iron brands have long-been used to identify who owns particular cattle, cow ear tags are a great alternative for livestock management that not only make it possible to identify the animals, but for keeping accurate records on each one. Your records might include things like age, gender, weight, and breeding information. Calves can also be tagged to link them to their mother in birth sequence and/or numbered pairs. Heifers can get a new number to avoid repetition once they've matured and have been integrated into the herd.Ear tags are one of the most popular methods of any numbering system for providing unique identification and larger types of tags are easy to read when you're i...