Understanding Cattle Livestock Identification: A Closer Look at Cow Tags

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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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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How Livestock Tags Can Keep Your Animals Safe and Healthy

Cows with livestock tags

A capacity for self-propelled locomotion being one of the hallmarks of what we define as “life,” it follows that keeping track of living things is by no means a simple task. Most creatures, including human beings, are curious by nature, and our innate wanderlust is a manifestation of that curiosity. It’s what has spread our species to every (habitable and not so habitable) corner of the globe, and so we have devised a complicated system of paperwork and documentation to make sure that people are who, what, and where they say they are. Think of I.D. cards, passports, and such as livestock tags for humans.

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Do Your Goats Need Name Tags?

Two goats with name tags

A few years ago we wrote a blog about “The Naming of Goats.” Then, just recently, while shopping on Etsy, we ran across a store selling name tags for goats. And that got us to thinking: Why would a goat need a name tag at all?

Goats are quite amazing creatures in numerous ways. One way, of course, is their remarkable eating habits. The ultimate omnivores, they are known to chomp on everything even vaguely edible—or inedible, for that matter—from grass to tree bark to toxic plants, including poison oak and knapweed. They even have a documented appetite for litter when left unchaperoned. Indeed, that is the theme of the American folk song “Bill Grogan’s Goat”:

One day that goat felt frisk and fine—
Ate three red shirts right off the line.

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Chicken Leg Bands to the Rescue!

Flock of chickens

While the pandemic-induced lockdown left everyone marooned in their quarters for nigh onto a year, it also presented people with an opportunity to think outside that box. Some took to posting on social media unabashed renditions of songs with altered lyrics articulating the angst of our strange times. Others resurrected the forgotten artist residing within, creating artworks worth preserving. Pet sales soared across the world as people found themselves in urgent need of companionship. But the ones whose need was most dire were the parents with homebound children whom circumstances had compelled to dig deep within their creative selves to hatch novel tasks designed to educate and entertain their young ones.

Here is the tale of one such family, delivered from their domestic entrapment in a most delightful and unexpected way.

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