- Location
- Scottish Borders
A good trade for him
Confessions of the Sheep/Beef Cattle/Pig Addicts
- Thread starter Anymulewilldo
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- Location
- Dumfries & Galloway
I run the tags through the scanner.
Not keen on (basic/free) Agrident scanner software so 2mins puts it over on to a spreadsheet and I have all the info you have there.
Print it off into a ring binder. Strike them off as dead or sold - along with the entry in the flock book.
Only keep the thermal print from the scanner for cull ewes as a list of each group to a company the movement log.
If you move sheep off does it automatically delete them for a list that’s on your holding? Sometime that takes I minute to do on excel but at least it’s free.
- Location
- Scottish Borders
Yeah will do all your deaths/movements/retags etc from your phone as you go. Also let's you record weights and condition scores and a heap of other things on the same system.
Took me a while to get into it but think it's brilliant now
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- Fife
jandl
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No harm in your view but there are definitely benefits to be had in being able to track breeding stock performance, which individual number recording makes much easier.
To be honest I find it a benefit and it’s not difficult to do. I’ve considerably more things to get stressed about than tagging lambs
- Location
- Hereford
- Location
- Cheshire
It’s the cost vs benefit of the EID. Breeding sheep, fair enough. I don’t use it but plenty do. But lambs destined for slaughter where I’d tag them this morning, Longtown then heads off on Friday… what’s the point other than to give them something else to inspect and pull us up on 
store lambs and fat lambs needn’t be anymore than a plastic tag with holding of births flock number like it used to be
store lambs and fat lambs needn’t be anymore than a plastic tag with holding of births flock number like it used to be 
Can maybe see a benefit for anyone breeding and wanting to record data for there own use but for us running commercial flocks no benefit whatsoeverIt’s the cost vs benefit of the EID. Breeding sheep, fair enough. I don’t use it but plenty do. But lambs destined for slaughter where I’d tag them tonight, Longtown tomorrow then heads off on Friday… what’s the point other than to give them something else to inspect and pull us up on
livestock 1
Member
I got it hahaI can’t join in on the OTHER thread but he’ll get it
jandl
Member
Disagree with store, agree to an extent with fat. If the stock has potential to move locations I’d want to have a system where I could confidently trace where it’s been in its life.It’s the cost vs benefit of the EID. Breeding sheep, fair enough. I don’t use it but plenty do. But lambs destined for slaughter where I’d tag them this morning, Longtown then heads off on Friday… what’s the point other than to give them something else to inspect and pull us up on
I bet pug, dickie and smithy really think they are players.
jandl
Member
I run a commercial flock as well and its a benefit to me for them as well
For your own use maybe but sell them lambs and ask butcher/ supermarket for the tag number to corespond to the joint bet they cant for cattle its probale but still no benefit to the producer
We were once upon a time, now we just talk about the good old daysI bet pug, dickie and smithy really think they are players.
livestock 1
Member
Drinking and women moved to the other thread due to temporary serious session on here
Hopefully normal service will resume
Hopefully normal service will resume