Re: Pro's and Con's of Electronic ID Post by Red Bull Breeder » Sun Jan 04, 2009 3:11 am The tags is not what get you the premiums it is the cattle wearing them. In our article below, we outline the pros and cons of several technologies that are currently available, or on the horizon. See more. As such, the grocers were the ones to survive the early system glitches and fine tune the features so they provided the right information in a manner customers could appreciate. Like that exercise bike in the basement being used as a coat hanger long before you're in Olympic shape. Cattle Identification Benefits Tagging your cattle with an individual identification (such as a unique ear tag number) has many management and production benefits. An ear tag is a plastic or metal object used for identification of domestic livestock and other animals. The CattleMax website features short, easy-to-understand online training videos that show you how easy it is to enter records and run reports.
Every form of identification provides ranches with the ability to use it for additional herd management purposes. Records the temperature of the cattle. Each type of ID has its pros and cons, like any other product. Tattooing and ear notching are widely used techniques to mark livestock. RFIDs: The Pros and Cons Every Consumer Needs to Know About Radio Frequency Identification Tags by www.SixWise.com. Read on to know more about the pros and cons of RFID.

Electronic Identification (EID) Tagging animals with an electronic (EID) tag provides an opportunity to better manage the individual performance of those animals. Tattooing. History of Cattle Identification: The need to identify cows has been around since the early 1900’s, when cattlemen needed a way to claim their cattle in co mingled herds. Not only will you be able to quickly verify which cow you are working with (cow 123 instead of "the one with the white spot on her face") - this helps you (or someone helping you) locate her record in your record keeping system. Every technology has its advantages and disadvantages, and the same is true for this technology as well. Electronic ID Readers / RFID Readers.
One of the newer methods in the cattle industry is Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) ear tags. With any system, there are pros and cons, but the auto dealership industry is currently adopting a system that has been in use in grocery stores for seven years. On dark-pigmented ears of cattle or goats (for example, Alpine goats), use green or white ink instead of black. Leading cattle electronic ID readers include a memory capability that allows for storing of scanned electronic ID values that can later be downloaded onto a computer. Over time, an animal’s weight history can be tracked, good and bad performers can be identified and the … Radio Frequency Identification Tags (RFIDs) are a type of automatic identification method that's already being used to track everything from prescription drugs to … Sion Ifans of the Technology, Agriculture and Greater Efficiencies (TAG) project, Wales, details the pros and cons of EID equipment. CowCalf5 provides areas and compatibility with ID scanners to ease the input time and work.

Even before electronic cattle ID has become the rule rather than the exception, plenty of ID equipment purchased by well-meaning producers has already been relegated to paperweight status. Simple, easily readable forms of animal identification are important to assist cattle producers in maintaining records for genetic and management decisions. Each has its own advantages, disadvantages, application techniques and specific uses. The worst cattle producers would call EID an infringement on their privacy and would be whiners instead of "stand behind-ers". Cattle industry in the US would have only "20 breeds or even 5" in production instead of 120.


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