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<blockquote data-quote="fit2btied" data-source="post: 517612" data-attributes="member: 6"><p>About half our cows are registered and half commercial. Same system for both. Front of tag (Z-tags) has small universal letter for year (U in 08) at the top and large cow number on the bottom. Calves gets current letter and their dam's number - Ex: cow R118 had hfr calf U118. Twins, heaven forbid, get an A or B after the number. Back of tag has birthweight at the top and birth date at the bottom. All other info (breeding, descriptions, comments, etc.) is written in the little red cow/calf book and then transferred to the computer. All bull calves are banded and will keep that number. If heifers are to be retained, they will get their own new number and tag at spring work-up. All tags are in middle of left ear. Farm tattoo, FT2B, goes between skull and tag, ID tattoo, ex: U118, goes between the tag and the tip of the ear. Right ear will get a fly tag, but otherwise is saved for the vet for Bangs clip and tattoo. All animals run together on leased land from May up to deer season if grass and water hold out. They are then brought home for wintering and calving. Animals that come to my place have green tags, to my brother's, orange, to my son's, white. Makes them easier to sort and works for us.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="fit2btied, post: 517612, member: 6"] About half our cows are registered and half commercial. Same system for both. Front of tag (Z-tags) has small universal letter for year (U in 08) at the top and large cow number on the bottom. Calves gets current letter and their dam's number - Ex: cow R118 had hfr calf U118. Twins, heaven forbid, get an A or B after the number. Back of tag has birthweight at the top and birth date at the bottom. All other info (breeding, descriptions, comments, etc.) is written in the little red cow/calf book and then transferred to the computer. All bull calves are banded and will keep that number. If heifers are to be retained, they will get their own new number and tag at spring work-up. All tags are in middle of left ear. Farm tattoo, FT2B, goes between skull and tag, ID tattoo, ex: U118, goes between the tag and the tip of the ear. Right ear will get a fly tag, but otherwise is saved for the vet for Bangs clip and tattoo. All animals run together on leased land from May up to deer season if grass and water hold out. They are then brought home for wintering and calving. Animals that come to my place have green tags, to my brother's, orange, to my son's, white. Makes them easier to sort and works for us. [/QUOTE]
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