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West Central Illinois | I'm with Jim on the RFID tags. We use them in swine for the same purposes. The RFID tag is scanned and associated with the regular tag in the opposite ear. We then scan them with a wand and all the information is transfered to a computer file without us touching a button on the computer. This allows us to keep accurate records and the packer can also scan them for carcass data without us having to tattoo each animal. We use them on around 10,000 finishing hogs per year and we lose less than 1% of the tags, thus very good retention. Has nothing to do with the government, just useful for accurate and simple record keeping. | |
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Ear tags
