Ear tags for sheep

[Becky1992]

I was wondering what ear tags everyone uses.
what they would and wouldn't recommend?
Thanks

 

[Bob c]

been a few threads about tags

https://thefarmingforum.co.uk/index.php?threads/sheep-ear-tags.125528/

https://thefarmingforum.co.uk/index.php?threads/recommended-sheep-tags.114792/page-2#post-2375862

 

[GTB]

We find Shearwell and Symtag are pretty good. Don't get on at all with the Roxan auto taggers. The applicators keep breaking and the tags have very thin pins which rip out too easily.

http://www.shearwell.co.uk/c/1/

http://www.symtag.co.uk/pages/sheeptags
http://www.symtag.co.uk/pages/sheeptags
http://www.tagfaster.com/sheep-tags-22-c.asp

 

[Danllan]

Save time and start off with Shearwell...

 

[Spartacus]

Save time, pretty much EVERYONE will say Shearwell...

Fixed it for you

 

[Badshot]

I've always found the tags a bit in the chewy side myself. Be nice to find some that were easier digested too..........

 

[Nithsdale]

We find Shearwell and Symtag are pretty good. Don't get on at all with the Roxan auto taggers. The applicators keep breaking and the tags have very thin pins which rip out too easily.

What are you doing you break the applicators?

We have an original non eID auto tagger which will be 12yr old... and a tag faster eID auto tagger 4yr old, work perfect and solid built.

Just get the tag in the lamb before you put it on the lorry, no worries of them ripping or falling out.

For fat lambs I wouldn't use anything else

 

[Guiggs]

I've always found the tags a bit in the chewy side myself. Be nice to find some that were easier digested too..........

If in doubt add a little tomato ketchup!!

 

[Guiggs]

Shearwell if we're being serious!

 

[exmoor dave]

Shearwell if we're being serious!

+1

 

[Gator]

+1 shearwell here

 

[Man_in_black]

Not having a personal go @Becky1992 but the search function on forum does work. Thus subject has been done a hundred times.


Shearwell.

 

[Becky1992]

Sorry... I'm not on here all the time like some people so I don't know fully how this site works. Slight over reaction on the 100!

 

[firther]

you ask away becky, prob every subject been done over an over, so they'd be nowt to read on that logic

I don't know why they don't bring a chip system out like in pets, done once at birth then all ya have to do is send you're paperwork off an let movements do rest

 

[tinsheet]

Shearwell.

 

[yellowbelly]

I don't know why they don't bring a chip system out like in pets, done once at birth then all ya have to do is send you're paperwork off an let movements do rest

I once asked a vet about that . Apparently the chips in pets have been found to migrate from the original site of application. I expect they're frightened of one turning up in somebody's lamb chop

 

[Clive Tee]

Shearwell set tags. Very high retention.

 

[JD-Kid]

i looked at shearwell and had a few tags ummmm they are here i'm not rushing out to buy them best tags we had were alflex flock tags but seeing they don't do them in EID we have leader EID's which look the same
button tags had a few 1000 of them in the shed too many rip outs
zee tags had them in cattle and worked OK

 

[yellowbelly]

Shearwell set tags. Very high retention.

Changed to Shearwell from Dalton .Tag lambs at birth. Have only lost one tag in the first 3 draws of lambs for market this year, compared to about 10 in the same period last year.

 

[Damomc]

We use allflex sheep tags on the goats and they seem to last, and bloody goats stick there heads in anything that's going !!!