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Health papers to cross state lines.
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<blockquote data-quote="farmerjan" data-source="post: 1483849" data-attributes="member: 25884"><p>In Va, any DAIRY or dairy cross animals needs the official state tag. It can be a metal tag or an electronic one. Our local stockyard charges $1.50 per tag for any dairy animals. Even baby calves. The state supplies them to a farmer, and any vet can supply a box of 100 tags. But the box of tags has to be "registered " to your farm and premise ID, if you tag them yourself. If the stockyard does it, the number is supposed to be recorded as having been put in with the name of the owner and address etc. Any cow sold for breeding has to have an ID tag. All slaughter cattle do not need tags. The big deal with the dairy breeds was due to the "mad cow disease" and traceability. 99% of the dairy females are tagged anyway; if nothing else when they are bangs vaccinated. Problem with that it is no longer mandatory to bangs vaccinate. But every dairy farm I milk test for tags every female that they keep on the farm. And most have a separate box of tags to put in anything that goes to the stockyards. </p><p></p><p>If it looks "beef" enough, and is under 18 months then no tags. If it is sold for breeding purposes, then it needs a tag.</p><p></p><p>I believe that this is not only for traceability for disease purposes, but it will also give gov't knowledge of how many animals and eventually will aide in taxation for something stupid like contribution to greenhouse gases or something....</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="farmerjan, post: 1483849, member: 25884"] In Va, any DAIRY or dairy cross animals needs the official state tag. It can be a metal tag or an electronic one. Our local stockyard charges $1.50 per tag for any dairy animals. Even baby calves. The state supplies them to a farmer, and any vet can supply a box of 100 tags. But the box of tags has to be "registered " to your farm and premise ID, if you tag them yourself. If the stockyard does it, the number is supposed to be recorded as having been put in with the name of the owner and address etc. Any cow sold for breeding has to have an ID tag. All slaughter cattle do not need tags. The big deal with the dairy breeds was due to the "mad cow disease" and traceability. 99% of the dairy females are tagged anyway; if nothing else when they are bangs vaccinated. Problem with that it is no longer mandatory to bangs vaccinate. But every dairy farm I milk test for tags every female that they keep on the farm. And most have a separate box of tags to put in anything that goes to the stockyards. If it looks "beef" enough, and is under 18 months then no tags. If it is sold for breeding purposes, then it needs a tag. I believe that this is not only for traceability for disease purposes, but it will also give gov't knowledge of how many animals and eventually will aide in taxation for something stupid like contribution to greenhouse gases or something.... [/QUOTE]
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