Where are you? I’m England they have to have one yellow (Eid) and one coloured (visual). I believe in Scotland they can have 2 what ever colour (could be yellow) but one of them and only one is Eid. You don’t have to put red tags in unless they have lost there tags from birth holding (different to your own holding) or are up grading from a single slaughter Eid up to a full breeding pair (like first mentioned).
I am based in south Scotland. I bought them at a store sale. So when purchased they had one yellow slaughter tag from birth holding. With my intention to keep them for breeding I replaced the slaughter tags with one yellow EID and one yellow visual with my own flock number on.
They should technically have had red put in them when you upgraded them.
I`m not saying either of you are wrong, but, I expect you are both from England - are you absolutely certain that this is the case in Scotland ? ( pretty certain you are right with how things are south of the border by the way!)
Sorry to ask but for clarity WHO "told" you? An official source or .......someone who may be wrong?
I'm almost certain that a few parts of that have changed, but not 100% sure - I'll check later when I'm in the office.
I dont think this is true. I have done the same thing, bought ewe lambs at a store sale with a slaughter tag in them, and sought advice on exactly which breeding tags I needed to use, specifically asking if they needed to be red as they weren’t born on my holding, but I was told in this case that red tags weren’t necessary, that if you were upgrading from a slaughter tag you can just put in your own standard double tags, of whatever colour you please.
I think red is for bought in sheep that have lost all means of identifying their individual number. If a home bred sheep loses it's tags you can just apply another set as it's on holding of birth
that will be fine. leave them as they are now.
I was going to point you in the direction of the inside cover of your SAMU movement licence book, but replacing a purchased slaughter tag with a pair of breeder tags is just about the only scenario not covered.
I had a SGRPID inspector that traced back at least a selection of tags out of the sample he'd read. I'm pretty sure he'd have found an anomaly if there'd been one there
. I'm bound to have some I've not recorded properly but must have gotten lucky that day.
Yes, of the 60 tags they read last time I had to find the incoming record of 10 of them in the tag lists. Took ages but it used up plenty of time and got them closer to “right we need to be going”I had a SGRPID inspector that traced back at least a selection of tags out of the sample he'd read. I'm pretty sure he'd have found an anomaly if there'd been one there
We're mostly home bred but you only need to retag one and forget to write it down in the right place to feck things upYes, of the 60 tags they read last time I had to find the incoming record of 10 of them in the tag lists. Took ages but it used up plenty of time and got them closer to “right we need to be going”
You mean you don’t have 2 days in the office before an inspection?!We're mostly home bred but you only need to retag one and forget to write it down in the right place to feck things up
Hes the farm manager, got to find something to do that doesn’t annoy the staff.
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