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<blockquote data-quote="AudieWyoming" data-source="post: 769381" data-attributes="member: 13669"><p>I wrote about this once on another forum/topic. I will try to find it and paste it here. @</p><p></p><p>As much as I hate trying to read 4 digit tags, on the registered cows I feel the cow family is so important I devised this system. </p><p></p><p>First number- year born, next two numbers identify cow families 00 to 99, last number is year her mother was born. Example 6882 is an '06 cow from the 88 family, I know her mother was 288? Her this years calf would be 0886. (Read 0-88-6)For most purposes I still just call the cows by the first 3 digits ie. Cow 688 had a bull calf this morning. </p><p></p><p>I know this line decends from the '89 foundation cow 988E by Baldridge Oscar. ( Foundation cows got a letter for where they came from because I didn't care who or how old the dam was.) </p><p></p><p>Bulls get tagged in the right ear, heifers in the left to leave room for the bangs tatoo in the right. I also use a different color for the heifers and bulls then switch to two new colors mid-calving season so that later when picking replacements and you get down to the last cuts, If I have 2 yellows and three greens I know the greens are 30 to 40 days younger and ship the older calves. I code the sire up in the neck of the tag, I generally put the date on back when they are born but don't really worry about the exact date, its just nice to be able to flip the tag if I have their head caught. </p><p></p><p>Over time some families will die out and certain cows will dominate the herd. Today all the cows can be traced to just 16 of the original cows, in fact over one third of the current cows trace to just 2 cows, the 37's and the 88's. </p><p></p><p>Its getting late and this is too long, I will try to come back later and explain how I got around too many replacement heifers with the same number. @</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="AudieWyoming, post: 769381, member: 13669"] I wrote about this once on another forum/topic. I will try to find it and paste it here. @ As much as I hate trying to read 4 digit tags, on the registered cows I feel the cow family is so important I devised this system. First number- year born, next two numbers identify cow families 00 to 99, last number is year her mother was born. Example 6882 is an '06 cow from the 88 family, I know her mother was 288? Her this years calf would be 0886. (Read 0-88-6)For most purposes I still just call the cows by the first 3 digits ie. Cow 688 had a bull calf this morning. I know this line decends from the '89 foundation cow 988E by Baldridge Oscar. ( Foundation cows got a letter for where they came from because I didn't care who or how old the dam was.) Bulls get tagged in the right ear, heifers in the left to leave room for the bangs tatoo in the right. I also use a different color for the heifers and bulls then switch to two new colors mid-calving season so that later when picking replacements and you get down to the last cuts, If I have 2 yellows and three greens I know the greens are 30 to 40 days younger and ship the older calves. I code the sire up in the neck of the tag, I generally put the date on back when they are born but don't really worry about the exact date, its just nice to be able to flip the tag if I have their head caught. Over time some families will die out and certain cows will dominate the herd. Today all the cows can be traced to just 16 of the original cows, in fact over one third of the current cows trace to just 2 cows, the 37's and the 88's. Its getting late and this is too long, I will try to come back later and explain how I got around too many replacement heifers with the same number. @ [/QUOTE]
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