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<blockquote data-quote="creekdrive" data-source="post: 1275199" data-attributes="member: 21216"><p>How we deal with that problem is we keep the mothers year letter on the tag as well. ie. cow R72 has a heifer that we kept that is XR72. She also had YR72. This year they both had calves as well that are CXR72 and CYR72. We usually put the current year letter at the top and then the dam/granddam on the left side of the tag. Purebred heifers also get their sire written on the bottom of the tag. Last year we started tagging the purebred bulls a little differently, just because when you have three 217's in the bull pen it gets a little hard for customers to keep it straight. So bulls get a number from the order they are born with the year letter behind. Then below that on the left we have the bulls name, and the cow's number on the right</p><p></p><p>here's a picture that kind of shows what I'm talking about in case I'm not making any sense.</p><p><img src="http://i1298.photobucket.com/albums/ag51/creekdrive/IMG_9187sm_zps8rhyb9pu.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /></p><p>on the left is a bull calf - 105C, his sire is Z376 and dam is X12. and then two heifers on the right, CTP94 & CX376</p><p></p><p>For some people I'm sure it's way to much information on one tag, but I like being able to tell all that information out in the pasture without even opening a record sheet.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="creekdrive, post: 1275199, member: 21216"] How we deal with that problem is we keep the mothers year letter on the tag as well. ie. cow R72 has a heifer that we kept that is XR72. She also had YR72. This year they both had calves as well that are CXR72 and CYR72. We usually put the current year letter at the top and then the dam/granddam on the left side of the tag. Purebred heifers also get their sire written on the bottom of the tag. Last year we started tagging the purebred bulls a little differently, just because when you have three 217's in the bull pen it gets a little hard for customers to keep it straight. So bulls get a number from the order they are born with the year letter behind. Then below that on the left we have the bulls name, and the cow's number on the right here's a picture that kind of shows what I'm talking about in case I'm not making any sense. [img]http://i1298.photobucket.com/albums/ag51/creekdrive/IMG_9187sm_zps8rhyb9pu.jpg[/img] on the left is a bull calf - 105C, his sire is Z376 and dam is X12. and then two heifers on the right, CTP94 & CX376 For some people I'm sure it's way to much information on one tag, but I like being able to tell all that information out in the pasture without even opening a record sheet. [/QUOTE]
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