Which cattle tags?

Alicecow

Member
Location
Connacht
We now have a choice of 3 suppliers of cattle tags :

Mullinahone / Allflex
Cormac / Caisley
Datamars / Alphatags.

I've only used the Mullinahone ones before as they were the only authorised supplier before, but having set up an account with them I am apparently 20cents in debt already :scratchhead:
Does anyone have experience of the other two types?
Will the Allflex tagger apply the other types satisfactorily?
Are the other ones any good? (They claim 99% of them stay in).

Thanks (y)
 
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bobk

Member
Location
stafford
All tags seem to be a little different , have 10 sets of taggers but I really only like the reflex tagger which are obsolete but can't stand the k type..
 

Shadow

Member
Location
South Wales
We use Caisley and been very pleased with them so far. The group that have ring feeders have been losing tags all over the place but none of the caisley tags have come out! Also the tagging pliers are really nice to use and release quickly (except when tissue tagging)
 

slackjawedyokel

Member
Mixed Farmer
Location
Northumberland
I really like the zeetag/quicktag tags because the tagging pliers are designed for normal hands and the jaws spring open when tagged so you can just pull the pliers away from the ear.
Only slight problem with them is that I use an old set of pliers (white ones with purple); I bought a new set of the blue/black ones but I gave up using those because I kept bending tags in them.
I use zeetags for both primary and management tags, with Cox quiksilver tags as secondaries.
We used to use combi tags, but the combi senior pliers are monsters that are not designed for human hands.
 

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