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<blockquote data-quote="Warren Allison" data-source="post: 1663250" data-attributes="member: 40587"><p>[USER=18748]@anewcomer[/USER] ....Dave, Silver, gcreekrch, have all given good reasons why most people tag at birth. In my case, I found it a lot easier on me and my horse, to just step out of the saddle for less than a minute, and pop a tag in a calf's ear. Like many folks, my tags always had part of the cow's tag number in it, too. It makes working them in a few months so much easier as well. We could cut the heifers into one pen to be wormed, vaccinated etc, and the boys into another for harvesting the mtn oysters, then on to the worm/vacc pen. I have had cows calving in pastures, and helped pother people with the same problem, that had no barns, working pens, etc. Just a corral, or brought in panels to make one. Again. lot easier to tag a new born, than heeling and dragging a 3 months old.. then waiting around after it is over., to try to pair them back up and write down random tag numbers. Also, in the deep south, a lot of folks spray the naval to prevent screw worms and other flies from getting maggots in it.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Warren Allison, post: 1663250, member: 40587"] [USER=18748]@anewcomer[/USER] ....Dave, Silver, gcreekrch, have all given good reasons why most people tag at birth. In my case, I found it a lot easier on me and my horse, to just step out of the saddle for less than a minute, and pop a tag in a calf's ear. Like many folks, my tags always had part of the cow's tag number in it, too. It makes working them in a few months so much easier as well. We could cut the heifers into one pen to be wormed, vaccinated etc, and the boys into another for harvesting the mtn oysters, then on to the worm/vacc pen. I have had cows calving in pastures, and helped pother people with the same problem, that had no barns, working pens, etc. Just a corral, or brought in panels to make one. Again. lot easier to tag a new born, than heeling and dragging a 3 months old.. then waiting around after it is over., to try to pair them back up and write down random tag numbers. Also, in the deep south, a lot of folks spray the naval to prevent screw worms and other flies from getting maggots in it. [/QUOTE]
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