sheep tags for market
- Thread starter Unknown12
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Most Markets will scan the ewes and provide a movement slip for your records, and send the movement details off on your behalf...
If doing it manually, just record the flock number, then the individual ID numbers. If all different, then needs full number.
- Location
- Cornwall
I just enter the number of each flock number on the official paper movement, IE 10 ukxxxxx, 5 ukxxxyyy, 1 ukyyyyyy. Market then takes the individual numbers for you
- Location
- Yorkshire
But the auction mart has no legal obligation to provide you with all numbers if one doesn't read or misses getting read. Double tagged animals you are supposed to record full individual numbers and use a additional sheet of paper if necessary
- Location
- Yorkshire
Just looked at our auction print out for today and there's one full Eid number missing out of 36, luckily only need to identify flock number. Any breeders I read them all at home before they go on trailer to make sure I have every number
On the official movement form I put UK flock number Individual. I then attach a list of individual numbers to the form for market use and keep a copy for my use. Surprising when the scanned list comes back from market how often it says X number of tags will not scan.
- Location
- north Wales
Need every individual number. I scan them with a shearwell stick into my phone then print them off on a cheap ebay little mobile printer and staple them on the license x 3 and movement book
- Location
- Montgomeryshire
Likewise, I scan all double tagged sheep before they leave the farm, so that my records are accurate, then just put the UK number on the movement forms and leave the mart to collect the numbers in the pens. I don't keep the list they send me with the cheque, as I know my records on the computer are correct as they left.
- Location
- Huntingdon
Where do I get the triplicate carbon copy movement forms from ?
serf
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- Location
- warwickshire
I do as above but if double tagged (breeding tags ) I take photo of flock and individual number on phone incase market reader doesnt read all the tags , which sometimes happens so have got a record of numbers as backup and use market readout for records when they send it back.
- Location
- Yorkshire
Auction mart send them with catalogue when we've stock entered and with print outs when we've sold and can pick a load up if we're in auction
- Location
- Yorkshire
It's rare I get a full read back from auction so I'm sure inspectors know about it too
Northeastfarmer
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- Location
- Cleveland
Can anyone advise a sheep eartag reader that isn’t Shearwell’s extortionist prices
They want £550 for theirs and They want £250 for a crappy £50 printer
They want £550 for theirs and They want £250 for a crappy £50 printer
yeah one of the agrident ones , apr 250 is the cheapest iirc . look at TGMCan anyone advise a sheep eartag reader that isn’t Shearwell’s extortionist prices
They want £550 for theirs and They want £250 for a crappy £50 printer
and for tags i find QwikTag ones good to put in ,especially on older tougher ears , the (one tag a time pliers )are strong metal ones as well. and they raed a bit easier as the chip at the top instead of under iyswim
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- Location
- Co Down UK
The APR250 handheld is £375 and printer is £65. Total £440 plus about £10 postage plus VAT.
I believe if you get the English grant, since it's a handheld capable of full management recording, it qualifies for highest rate of grant, so you actually have it for little or no cost when you get grant back as I believe the English grant is on standard cost, not actual cost. I stand to be corrected on this, but that's the way it worked with previous tranches of funding in England. The grant in England is incorrectly specified. It distinguishes between a handheld and a stick giving high rate to a handheld and lower rate to a stick, while in reality both record exactly the same management info. Then of course, we have a handheld , the APR600 with a quick release stick extension, the AEA675, so it's a stick when you're loading lambs and a handheld in your pocket in the lambing shed. While other distributors may sell the APR600 and AEA675, nobody else provides the quick release connection top make it a single handed stick as we make this ourselves.
I believe if you get the English grant, since it's a handheld capable of full management recording, it qualifies for highest rate of grant, so you actually have it for little or no cost when you get grant back as I believe the English grant is on standard cost, not actual cost. I stand to be corrected on this, but that's the way it worked with previous tranches of funding in England. The grant in England is incorrectly specified. It distinguishes between a handheld and a stick giving high rate to a handheld and lower rate to a stick, while in reality both record exactly the same management info. Then of course, we have a handheld , the APR600 with a quick release stick extension, the AEA675, so it's a stick when you're loading lambs and a handheld in your pocket in the lambing shed. While other distributors may sell the APR600 and AEA675, nobody else provides the quick release connection top make it a single handed stick as we make this ourselves.