Fearing Tags gone to the dogs ?

[wiltshire wurzel]

We have used Fearing tags for many years , usually answer phone ,take order and dispatch Tags quickly. Not anymore they dont. Waited two weeks,constant promises that they will be here tomorrow .In production they say ,really ? Believe they have been taken over (by Aliens) . Be warned money does get deducted from bank account. Oh and they dont reply to emails either . Shame used to be a good company.

 

[Great In Grass]

That is a shame they were the first company I had a trade account many moons ago. Sadly I closed my account with them a couple of years ago as they began selling direct to farm and having cut my discount I was unable to offer discount off their price list. Can't remember now who owns them Ritchie or Allflex.

 

[Northeastfarmer]

Get yourself shearwells...fast reliable service and free replacements

 

[Strickland2005]

Had same experience not answering phone use Shearwell now seems a good service

 

[Downtrodden Dad]

Allflex owns them now. I now get my cow tags from Caisley. If it wasn't that our local Allflex rep was good I wouldn't bother with them at all. I think Allflex is slowly buying up all the competition world domination is their aim.

 

[holwellcourtfarm]

Get yourself shearwells...fast reliable service and free replacements

+1
Couldn't be more helpful. They farm themselves and really understand our needs.

 

[foxbox]

Caisley used to supply Fearings, they were only a few miles down the road and we used to pop over to collect tags at short notice from them. At some point in November time they (Fearings) suddenly vanished; the shop and office was shut and they've relocated to County Durham. We've since had a letter suggesting we knew they were moving however as far as I can tell most people (us included) had no idea they were off. Their facebook page doesn't mention anything about the move until after they'd gone either and has some fairly scathing reviews of their service since the move. I'm guessing the staff from around here haven't gone with them so it's probably a new team up there.

They also made the headlines after apparently failing to notice £340k going missing from their accounts for quite a long time (as you do).

 

[Grassman]

Well don't go to Daltons. I'm not overjoyed with how the tags work. Never had noticeable bleeding with other tags but the sheep tags I use now don't seem to go through the ear easily and most sheep seem to be bleeding afterwards. Fiddly tags to work with as well.
I also had a technical problem with the stick reader I got off them but they have nobody who knows much about it and the young lad who eventually was given the problem promised to sort it. That was a couple of months ago but never heard from him since.

 

[DrWazzock]

Ordered replacement cattle tag from Fearings online on Monday morning. It was here next morning.

 

[tr250]

We have used Fearing tags for many years , usually answer phone ,take order and dispatch Tags quickly. Not anymore they dont. Waited two weeks,constant promises that they will be here tomorrow .In production they say ,really ? Believe they have been taken over (by Aliens) . Be warned money does get deducted from bank account. Oh and they dont reply to emails either . Shame used to be a good company.

They have been owned by Richie for a while but to be honest we havnt used them for a while even though they are only a few miles away. Retention rates were awful at one point and the boxes came so muddly you used to have to hunt in the box for them. I would imagine they have relocated

 

[Lazy Eric]

We deal with Caisley for cattle tags and shearwell for the sheep, both extremely good service, come to think of it we should get them from one or the other! I would have thought Fearings would be ok as owned by Alflex , but hey, how things change[emoji53]

 

[Northeastfarmer]

i used to use ritchey tags years ago, possibly the worst tags you could wish to use...they fell out on piece, was sick to death of buying replacements at £4!
Since moving to shearwell hardly any fall out

 

[Lazy Eric]

Ritchey dalesman tags were a complete disaster! We must have replaced 30% a year .

 

[Northeastfarmer]

Ritchey dalesman tags were a complete disaster! We must have replaced 30% a year .

What a pile of crap

 

[Paddington]

Ritchey dalesman tags were a complete disaster! We must have replaced 30% a year .

+1

 

[Red Fred]

What are Ketchum yellows like now? Lost a lot years ago and changed to Cox Zeetags, I wondered if they had got better?

 

[gone up the hill]

+1
Couldn't be more helpful. They farm themselves and really understand our needs.

Aye and not only that but if you need the tag the same day you can drive upto the Shearwell factory ( which is on their farm in the heart of Exmoor ) and pick them up.

 

[Gilchro]

Ladies and Gentlemen, you may debate Cox vs Ritchey vs Dalton vs Shearwell vs Allflex.
You may spend all night debating this.
Small problem...they are all Allflex.
There are only three manufacturers left-
Allflex
Zee tags
Caisley.

And Allflex are driving the agenda within the EU

 

[spin cycle]

anybody use the mvf tags?

 

[Northeastfarmer]

anybody use the mvf tags?

Is there anything MVF won't copy