Ear tags

[skyhightree1]

I just noticed today somehow my bull calf im raising to put on hereford heifers has lost his tag and gained a nicely split ear. I wont put another tag back in there as he is now easily identified with that split it and nuts. It seems yearly this happens to several of my cattle and I can't figure out how they did it. I am guessing he had his head through the fence or got it hung on a tree in the woods. I am not gonna run him through the shoot and clean it up as its already stopped bleeding and seems to be healing fine. Do any of yall have this as a yearly occurance?

 

[Aaron]

Very rarely do I have one tear out - about once every 10 years. Really have to get it caught on something to do it, and happens more often with the button tags. Have seen more of the one piece tags pull out through the hole, than tear.

 

[skyhightree1]

it so far has only happened to calves only

 

[M5farm]

they will get it hung on netwrap if you let them bale graze hay fields. May I should start a thread on how to remove net wrap and bale grazing Hmmmmm!

 

[skyhightree1]

they will get it hung on netwrap if you let them bale graze hay fields. May I should start a thread on how to remove net wrap and bale grazing Hmmmmm!

lmao

 

[branguscowgirl]

One of my little ones also tore his out this year. He did it in a corral (before I turned them out) with only pipe panels and non-climb. Really can't find anything he hooked it on.

 

[bird dog]

My bull tore his off twice. What would happen is I would lay down a round bale off the back of the tractor and he would use it for a scratching post until I could get off and get a ring around it. The tag would hang in the net wrap and he would snap it off.
The next year when I ordered tags I ordered five extra with his number on it. Of course he hasn't done it since.

 

[skyhightree1]

My bull tore his off twice. What would happen is I would lay down a round bale off the back of the tractor and he would use it for a scratching post until I could get off and get a ring around it. The tag would hang in the net wrap and he would snap it off.
The next year when I ordered tags I ordered five extra with his number on it. Of course he hasn't done it since.

So yours must have just tored the tag out and not split the ear im guessing?

 

[TennesseeTuxedo]

We have a half dozen or more with split ears from tags that get ripped out somehow.

I hate the way it looks.

 

[Bigfoot]

We have a half dozen or more with split ears from tags that get ripped out somehow.

I hate the way it looks.

Ear notch them, instead of using tags

 

[skyhightree1]

We have a half dozen or more with split ears from tags that get ripped out somehow.

I hate the way it looks.

Doesnt surprise me coming from a man that gets anxiety attacks when a tractor color doesnt match the attachment :lol2:

We have a half dozen or more with split ears from tags that get ripped out somehow.

I hate the way it looks.

Ear notch them, instead of using tags

lol Mine ear notch themselves by way of tags

 

[torogmc81]

had a steer calf split his this year. Only one weve had. But I still cant figure out how he did it, he was only 6-8 weeks old when he did it

 

[bird dog]

My bull tore his off twice. What would happen is I would lay down a round bale off the back of the tractor and he would use it for a scratching post until I could get off and get a ring around it. The tag would hang in the net wrap and he would snap it off.
The next year when I ordered tags I ordered five extra with his number on it. Of course he hasn't done it since.

So yours must have just tored the tag out and not split the ear im guessing?

Yeah you are correct come to think about it. Not a tear just a much bigger hole. With the fly tags he has had over the years he has more piercings than a classroom of teenagers

 

[kenny thomas]

Must be the gluten in the feed making the cartledge in the ear weak. :banana: