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<blockquote data-quote="Dana Kopp" data-source="post: 133610" data-attributes="member: 873"><p>Our heifers all get a cow size white tag. On the top of the front of the tag I write the dam's number (small) and beneath it I write the calf's individual number. The calf number is it's number born & the last digit of the year i.e. the fourth calf born was 45, thirty-fifth was 355. On the back of the tag I put my "code" for the sire - usually the first letter of his name or tag # and then below that on the left corner the date the calf was born. We always tag in the left ear so that date can be seen. In this way any of our heifers are ready to be "keepers" without having to re-tag and all pertinent info is right there.</p><p></p><p>Our steers get a calf size red tag. The only difference in tagging is that I swap the placement of the cow# and Calf# on the front of the tag. Since we pretty much sell all the steer calves their individual number doesn't really come into play too much so after experimenting with which info we use more we decided to make the cow's number larger basically for sorting purposes.</p><p>When we first started out with our herd we had a slightly different system, I incorporated the cow's number directly intot the calf number but as we started to grow and keep heifers that got too cumbersome. I sat down and penciled out how different systems would work including keeping heifers and their future calves. :cboy:</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Dana Kopp, post: 133610, member: 873"] Our heifers all get a cow size white tag. On the top of the front of the tag I write the dam's number (small) and beneath it I write the calf's individual number. The calf number is it's number born & the last digit of the year i.e. the fourth calf born was 45, thirty-fifth was 355. On the back of the tag I put my "code" for the sire - usually the first letter of his name or tag # and then below that on the left corner the date the calf was born. We always tag in the left ear so that date can be seen. In this way any of our heifers are ready to be "keepers" without having to re-tag and all pertinent info is right there. Our steers get a calf size red tag. The only difference in tagging is that I swap the placement of the cow# and Calf# on the front of the tag. Since we pretty much sell all the steer calves their individual number doesn't really come into play too much so after experimenting with which info we use more we decided to make the cow's number larger basically for sorting purposes. When we first started out with our herd we had a slightly different system, I incorporated the cow's number directly intot the calf number but as we started to grow and keep heifers that got too cumbersome. I sat down and penciled out how different systems would work including keeping heifers and their future calves. :cboy: [/QUOTE]
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