Micro-Chips to Identify Animals

[WagaAgeyv]

Have any of you heard of this yet in your area. This was on our news last night. :shock:
""Tennessee Farms are leaping into the future. The state is working to get every farm animal tagged with computer micro-chips. The idea is to be able to quickly identify animals exposed to some kind of disease.
Tennessee is stepping up efforts to register every farm in the state. The next step after that will be to put computer micro-chips on the animals then log them into a national data base. Cows will have micro-chips tagged to their ears. But horses will have chips implanted under their skin. The goal is to quickly stop the spread of disease.
“In order to stop disease and disease transmition you have to know who is exposed and work toward isolating those animals and getting them tested,” said State Veterinarian Ron Wilson.
“If I had a cow with mad cow disease under this new system they could track it back to my farm and check my heard to see if I had any more mad cow disease cows on my farm,” said Cattle farmer, Tom Locke.
The federal government wants to set up a national registry over the next five years. But Tennessee is hoping to lead the nation in getting its system up and running.""

 

[Susie David]

Just about all our animals leave our farm riding on "the rail" in a refrigerated truck.

 

[CattleAnnie]

As of September 1, 2006, all Canadian cattle leaving their herd of origin must be tagged with RFID tags that are CCIA approved.

Already used them on some heifers we retained last fall, and out of 70 plus head tagged with the RFID tags, not one of them lost a tag. Sure impressed with that as we've had to re-tag quite a few with the bar code traditional style tags.

Link to CCIA website.

http://www.canadaid.com/


Take care.

 

[WagaAgeyv]

We have longhorns it will take a lot of work to retag all our cattle, not to mention some of our friends have larger herds. It will be a big combined effort if they put this in place here. Do you have a computer system that works with you on this program? Or do you just depend on the vet and sale barns.

 

[dun]

Have any of you heard of this yet in your area. This was on our news last night. :shock:
""Tennessee Farms are leaping into the future. The state is working to get every farm animal tagged with computer micro-chips. The idea is to be able to quickly identify animals exposed to some kind of disease.
Tennessee is stepping up efforts to register every farm in the state. The next step after that will be to put computer micro-chips on the animals then log them into a national data base. Cows will have micro-chips tagged to their ears. But horses will have chips implanted under their skin. The goal is to quickly stop the spread of disease.
“In order to stop disease and disease transmition you have to know who is exposed and work toward isolating those animals and getting them tested,” said State Veterinarian Ron Wilson.
“If I had a cow with mad cow disease under this new system they could track it back to my farm and check my heard to see if I had any more mad cow disease cows on my farm,” said Cattle farmer, Tom Locke.
The federal government wants to set up a national registry over the next five years. But Tennessee is hoping to lead the nation in getting its system up and running.""

It's part of the NAIS. Search this site and you'll find tons of information.

http://idcattle.com/ has information, better yet do a google search for "livestock nais" and there will be lots of stuff includidng a link the aphis

dun

 

[SF]

Just wondering if ya'll are in favor or opposed to a national id system and why?

 

[SF]

I'm opposed to any new or additional government regulation. I understand the idea and reasoning behind the system and I can agree philosophically with the reasoning behind the system. I just have to question whether or not this is the business the government needs to be in. Are they (the gov't) qualified to maintain this data, keep it secure, etc.... JMO