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November 19, 2023

Understanding Cattle Livestock Identification: A Closer Look at Cow Tags

Livestock identification plays a crucial role in managing a successful and organized cattle operation. Whether you’re a smallholder or a farmer running a large commercial farm, effective livestock identification using cow tags and/or other methods will help keep track of individual animals, foster maintenance of a healthy herd, facilitate proper record keeping, and ensure traceability if any of the cows decide to wander off.

The Basics of Cattle Livestock Identification Methods

There are several methods of cattle identification, ranging from traditional branding to more modern electronic identification systems. However, one of the most common and universally recognized methods is the use of ear tags.

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October 17, 2023November 18, 2023

Poultry Leg Bands: Frequently Asked Questions

Modern poultry farmers utilize a variety of effective tools and practices to keep track of their livestock. These range from simple adjustable metal or plastic leg bands to sophisticated RFID foot ring tags for chickens, ducks, geese, pigeons, and other domesticated poultry livestock.

RFID tags, attached to the birds, allow farmers to track individual animals, monitoring their movement, feeding patterns, and health status. Automated systems, on the other hand, allow for large-scale observation of the flock, tracking things like overall feed consumption, temperature in the coop, and egg production. This combination of individual and group data gathering helps poultry farmers maintain healthy flocks and increase productivity.

Our focus today, however, is on small and mid-sized poultry farmers who rely on traditional practices and techniques to ensure the well-being of their birds. This includes the tried-and-true method of attaching poultry leg bands to their birds. These small, colored bands, when placed on the bird’s leg, can help poultry farmers quickly identify individual birds and keep track of important information like breeding pairs or egg-laying patterns.

Below are some of our favorite customer questions relating to poultry leg bands.

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April 21, 2023April 21, 2023

Dog License Tags: From the Pup’s POV

Dog license tags are a highly practical investment for a pet owner, serving as a cost-effective tool that ensures that your pet, should he stray, is easily identifiable in order to facilitate a painless reunification as soon as possible. That’s not to mention that these jangling bits of metal are quite inexpensive—and also mandatory—so they’re certainly cheaper than the fines one has to pay if their dog turns up without one. Thus, dog license tags are, in a word, a no-brainer.

We have written before about the general utility of dog license tags for pet owners. But what about what they have to offer for the pets themselves? Think about it from the pup’s point of view too.

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March 18, 2023

Firefighter Accountability Tags: Protecting Our Protectors

Actor Steve Buscemi of Reservoir Dogs and Con Air fame was a firefighter with the New York City Fire Department (FDNY) before he switched gears and went into acting. In his informative and moving documentary, A Good Job: Stories of the FDNY, Buscemi says, “I was a New York City firefighter for only about four years back in the 1980s. What I did not realize then is how much the job would stay with me and be a part of my life.”

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February 19, 2023February 19, 2023

How Ketchum Dog and Cat Tags Came to the Rescue in Old Manhattan

You are likely familiar with Jack London, the author of the celebrated novels The Call of the Wild and White Fang. Now meet another Jack London, a Fox Terrier who lived the last and some of the best years of his life when he—accompanied by his feline sister Naoise—moved from upstate New York to Soho with his dad. When they weren’t jiving and jousting with their new urban friends and acquaintances in Washington Square Park, they were chasing grey squirrels and pigeons—off-leash—in Washington Square Park. A big no-no, but they did it anyway.

Regrettably, a few times the wild-at-heart Jack got separated from his dad—and with him his dutiful shadow, Naoise. Lost in unfamiliar territory, the adventurous old pup, trailed by his reluctant companion, miraculously made it past the Washington Arch on his aging bones, but never all the way home somewhere off Houston Street. Thankfully, good animal-loving Samaritans found them, read their dog and cat tags, and shepherded them home. No fewer than five times were Jack and Naoise reunited with their dad in this way, thanks to their Ketchum Dog Head and Cat Silhouette pet tags.

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