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<blockquote data-quote="cow pollinater" data-source="post: 1275104" data-attributes="member: 14661"><p>I use the last number of the year they were born as the last number of the tag and the rest of it has no correlation to the dam. For example, 103, 013, 223 were all born in 2013 and got tagged in the order that they came across the calf table. Since I work my calves in groups it makes it easy to tell how old my retained heifers are as higher number means younger heifer and there is no guessing about how old they are as they're either eleven or a yearling. It also keeps me from being biased to certain calves that I expect more from due to their dam.</p><p>You could do the same thing with a letter but I can never remember what the letter codes are when I'm looking at cows and I tend to want to think they're younger than they really are.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="cow pollinater, post: 1275104, member: 14661"] I use the last number of the year they were born as the last number of the tag and the rest of it has no correlation to the dam. For example, 103, 013, 223 were all born in 2013 and got tagged in the order that they came across the calf table. Since I work my calves in groups it makes it easy to tell how old my retained heifers are as higher number means younger heifer and there is no guessing about how old they are as they're either eleven or a yearling. It also keeps me from being biased to certain calves that I expect more from due to their dam. You could do the same thing with a letter but I can never remember what the letter codes are when I'm looking at cows and I tend to want to think they're younger than they really are. [/QUOTE]
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