Cattle Passport Error

Granite Farmer

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Mixed Farmer
Whilst sorting cattle passports for market I've just noticed that I have put the breed of an animal (it is about 14-15m old) down as AAx when its clearly a Hereford cross out of an angus cow. Can it be amended or is it for the bin?

Only other option is to put it into the herd I suppose.
 

Flossie

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Livestock Farmer
Location
Lancs
BCMS will alter it and charge you £20 if I remember correctly.

Will it actually matter though 🤔 who’s going to snitch on you…. the beast….

Fairly sure there's no charge to change it. You just send it back with the changes marked on it and they'll send you an amended one.
I sold a calf with the wrong breed on the passport through the calf ring. I gave an extra fiver luck, and a stamped envelope to BCMS for their trouble. See it all the time in the calf ring. Heifers with testicles, etc 🫣

They do charge for a replacement passport though. I lost 2 calf passports, or they didn't come in the post, and I didn't notice until it was coming time to sell them. I can't remember the timescale, but because I'd gone over it (40 days maybe) I had to pay for them to be re-issued.
 

Agrivator

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If it's out of an Angus cow then it's an Angus cross with a white face surely.

Exactly. A calf out of an Angus x cow by a Holstien bull and single suckled, would be registered as a Holstein cross.

But it is far more of a Angus cross calf than a calf out of a Holstein cow by an Angus bull, weaned soon after birth and fattened on slats.
 
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Hfd Cattle

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Mixed Farmer
Location
Hereford
Whilst sorting cattle passports for market I've just noticed that I have put the breed of an animal (it is about 14-15m old) down as AAx when its clearly a Hereford cross out of an angus cow. Can it be amended or is it for the bin?

Only other option is to put it into the herd I suppose.
Leave it . The buyer buys what he sees in the ring , the abattoirs just read the tags , they haven't got home to decide what breed it is .
Think twice before you send a passport back for ammendments, we sent 2 back due to having the wrong sex by mistake, both ' got lost ' somewhere in BCMS towers and it cost us £40 for 2 replacements.
 

Hesstondriver

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Livestock Farmer
Location
Huntingdon
Breed changing is a can of worms. Could end up with the animal being white papered. You’d have to prove parentage I think or at very least calving books and records. I’d make the amendment myself and let the mart know.
Like you say If you change it it could arouse suspicion and then questions .
could it be proved by dna ?
 

L P

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Arable Farmer
Location
Newbury
Ether way it's AAX, it's not something to get hung up on... God forbid you run two differing bulls in the same season... how would you cope with your conscience? I'll challenge any mixed race gender fluid defra/bcms folk to argue against my choice on how I should identify my cows.
 

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