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<blockquote data-quote="Brute 23" data-source="post: 1788214" data-attributes="member: 6291"><p>I dont see tagging calves as a necessity for your operation. It would be nice to do but it's definitely not worth the hassle of tagging as a newborn.</p><p></p><p>When a cow has a calf I write down her number, a description of the calf like... bwb... black and white bull, and an estimated date on its age. In your case snapping a pic at the time of momma and calf could help. That info goes in to an excel spreadsheet. I don't put much else on the tags. </p><p></p><p>When the calves start getting around #300 we will catch the cattle in the pens. We seperate cows and calves. Cows get worked and kicked out in to a small trap that adjoins the pens. We will wait until late that evening or early the next morning, depending on how many there are, to work the calves. Calves get banded, shots, and ear tags.</p><p></p><p>My son is usually on the sxs with a note pad and and I'll give him hand signals for the calf number as I tag it. Then when it gets turned out he follows it to its momma and writes her number next to the calf number. He can loop back and be ready usually as we finish up the next one. We do that over and over until they are all paired up.</p><p></p><p>Imo, as a minimum cows need to be tagged and calves need to be written down when they are born so you know the cow is calving regularly.</p><p></p><p>I like having calves tagged because we track avg pounds per day of gain from birth to sale time.</p><p></p><p>There were also stats out that claim buyers pay more for tagged calves because it shows some history they have likely been worked. If the numbers were correct, it justified the purchase of a tag.</p><p></p><p>It is rare that we have issue, but yes, cows have gotten injured and we needed to catch their calf. Tags make it easier to pen the momma and calf although there are other ways to figure it out.</p><p></p><p>Lastly, and maybe most importantly, calves just look so dang good with their new tags. <img class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" alt="😄" title="Grinning face with smiling eyes :smile:" src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f604.png" data-shortname=":smile:" /></p><p></p><p>[ATTACH]26146[/ATTACH]</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Brute 23, post: 1788214, member: 6291"] I dont see tagging calves as a necessity for your operation. It would be nice to do but it's definitely not worth the hassle of tagging as a newborn. When a cow has a calf I write down her number, a description of the calf like... bwb... black and white bull, and an estimated date on its age. In your case snapping a pic at the time of momma and calf could help. That info goes in to an excel spreadsheet. I don't put much else on the tags. When the calves start getting around #300 we will catch the cattle in the pens. We seperate cows and calves. Cows get worked and kicked out in to a small trap that adjoins the pens. We will wait until late that evening or early the next morning, depending on how many there are, to work the calves. Calves get banded, shots, and ear tags. My son is usually on the sxs with a note pad and and I'll give him hand signals for the calf number as I tag it. Then when it gets turned out he follows it to its momma and writes her number next to the calf number. He can loop back and be ready usually as we finish up the next one. We do that over and over until they are all paired up. Imo, as a minimum cows need to be tagged and calves need to be written down when they are born so you know the cow is calving regularly. I like having calves tagged because we track avg pounds per day of gain from birth to sale time. There were also stats out that claim buyers pay more for tagged calves because it shows some history they have likely been worked. If the numbers were correct, it justified the purchase of a tag. It is rare that we have issue, but yes, cows have gotten injured and we needed to catch their calf. Tags make it easier to pen the momma and calf although there are other ways to figure it out. Lastly, and maybe most importantly, calves just look so dang good with their new tags. 😄 [ATTACH alt="20210719_190716.jpg"]26146[/ATTACH] [/QUOTE]
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