Calf crates are a good option for use in indoors with calf/cow catchers available for those tagging outside. Make sure you have suitable handling facilities in place to hold the calf and protect yourself. If possible separate the calf from the cow as a restrained calf is likely to call out to its mother which may result in her aggressively attacking the farmer. It’s important to properly restrain the calf you are about to tag. Incidents and fatalities among farmers tagging suckler calves highlight the need for proper and secure handling facilities. You should always take care when handling cattle but especially when applying ear tags to new born calves. To avoid confusion and miss mothering calves ideally should be tagged as soon as they are dry. For dairy calves one ear tag must be applied within 36 hours of birth with the secondary tag applied within 20 days. The tagging rules require young calves to be double tagged with two identically numbered ear tags within 20 days of birth.
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Got a question not on the list above- just contact us by e-mail or toll free at 87.Ensuring young calves are tagged correctly is an essential part of the cattle identification system. Blank tags and other products do not have a minimum requirement. Once the minimum of 25 tags is met, they do not need to be ordered in multiples of 25. We do require a minimum of 25 tags for custom printing. And depending on the environment, the ink may not fade for much longer period of time- but we know for sure we can stand behind the four year guarantee.Ī. Our special ink uses an inkjet process and it will penetrate into the tag giving you nice bold print that will last. We will guarantee our print not to fade for two years.
How long will the custom printing hold up?Ī. The key is to make sure you are using one of these special marking pens and also to go over the print area at least 3-4 times. The ink is acid-based and penetrates directly into the tag material (you can actually see this if you hold the tag up to light or cut the tag through the ink coverage). Our marking pens will truly last a very long time when applied correctly. so this special stud greatly reduces torn ears and lost tags.Ī. Most snags occur at the back of the ear when the animal has their head in fence, bale wire, brush, etc. In a worst-case scenario maybe one petal might break off- but the rest of the stud will remain intact. The Daisy stud has a petal-like design (thus the name Daisy) and these petals will flex and bend to pull away from the snag. How does the Daisy stud prevent snagging?Ī. Our rule of thumb is to always make the numbers as large as we can, but feel free to call or e-mail us with any special instructions. Likewise having a line of text on the top or bottom will reduce the size of the numbers. If on the other hand you need four digits such as 1000-1100, the numbers will have to be a little smaller. As an example, if you use a medium size tag with numbers 1-99, we will make the digits as large as we can to fill the whole tag. The size of the digit or letters corresponds to the size of the tag, how many digits you use and if you added text to the top or bottom line. How big will my numbers or text be on the tag?Ī. Chances that another manufactures' pin would have this grove in the right place is pretty slim.
There is a small "grove" on the pin where our studs will actually "seat" so that you have the right alignment and the stud does not come off the pin prematurely. And as you know having that stud line up properly is very important. Can I just make my pins fit the Perma-Flex Daisy stud or regular stud?Ī. Just order a set of replacement pins and give it a try -but make sure you can unscrew the pins in your applicator first. However, if you have an applicator that you can unscrew the pins and replace them with our pins, your existing tagger may work. We recommend using our applicators and cannot guarantee retention if you are not. Do I need a new applicator to use Perma-Flex tags and studs?Ī.
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