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<blockquote data-quote="farmwriter" data-source="post: 650695" data-attributes="member: 10309"><p>We tag when we vaccinate/castrate. </p><p>All steers get a small tag, number usually based on mother's number. e.g. cow 501 has steer w/small tag 1.</p><p>Heifers get large tag w/3 digit number. e.g. - cow 704 has heifer w/large tag 904, first number reflects birth year. </p><p>We bought a few heifers last year, so I put a small letter over their numbers to keep clear who wasn't born here. </p><p>It's not a perfect system, though. We breed to a blk angus bulls, so sometimes we get a couple of those solid black calves mixed up, but within a couple of days, riding through the pasture we get our numbers recorded properly. </p><p>Depending on how many of the heifers we decide to keep, this also throws a kink in the system. e.g.</p><p>When both 501 and 601 have a heifer in the same year, whichever heifer is tagged second doesn't get mother's number, but a number of her own. </p><p>We also have a single, registered farm brand as theft deterent, but we don't brand until well after weaning.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="farmwriter, post: 650695, member: 10309"] We tag when we vaccinate/castrate. All steers get a small tag, number usually based on mother's number. e.g. cow 501 has steer w/small tag 1. Heifers get large tag w/3 digit number. e.g. - cow 704 has heifer w/large tag 904, first number reflects birth year. We bought a few heifers last year, so I put a small letter over their numbers to keep clear who wasn't born here. It's not a perfect system, though. We breed to a blk angus bulls, so sometimes we get a couple of those solid black calves mixed up, but within a couple of days, riding through the pasture we get our numbers recorded properly. Depending on how many of the heifers we decide to keep, this also throws a kink in the system. e.g. When both 501 and 601 have a heifer in the same year, whichever heifer is tagged second doesn't get mother's number, but a number of her own. We also have a single, registered farm brand as theft deterent, but we don't brand until well after weaning. [/QUOTE]
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