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<blockquote data-quote="farmerjan" data-source="post: 1766845" data-attributes="member: 25884"><p>Bull calves get yellow tags, most females get green unless it is definitely on my cow and then females get a white tag. But sometimes they are just sleeping so the females get a green and then if it is seen nursing one of my cows, I will make a note and if I keep it as a replacement then it gets changed to white. Or they don't get tagged until getting ready to put them out for summer pasture, and then they get tagged going through the chute. I will go around and match them when we start grouping to go to pastures... Son has been in a hurry and tagged a couple of my heifer calves with yellow tags... this past year... when we went to gather the steers up have had to stop him and say, NO those are heifers you put the wrong tags in...</p><p>The guy who used to own the farm he bought, used to do the bulls in one ear, females in the other... but colors are much easier for son to get right and he carries the "tagging box" with him so not a big deal to take a green or yellow with him. they usually get the dam's number if known... but often times now I have just started with the year, 1 for 21 and then started numbering... like 101, and such. He can't keep them straight half the time anymore so a simple number is better for at least the steer calves. The steers all get sold so not a big deal, and I will change the heifers numbers when they are confirmed preg as keeper replacements; to a number that identifies them as the "family number" they are from .....and who their dam is and sometimes even have their sire on the tags.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="farmerjan, post: 1766845, member: 25884"] Bull calves get yellow tags, most females get green unless it is definitely on my cow and then females get a white tag. But sometimes they are just sleeping so the females get a green and then if it is seen nursing one of my cows, I will make a note and if I keep it as a replacement then it gets changed to white. Or they don't get tagged until getting ready to put them out for summer pasture, and then they get tagged going through the chute. I will go around and match them when we start grouping to go to pastures... Son has been in a hurry and tagged a couple of my heifer calves with yellow tags... this past year... when we went to gather the steers up have had to stop him and say, NO those are heifers you put the wrong tags in... The guy who used to own the farm he bought, used to do the bulls in one ear, females in the other... but colors are much easier for son to get right and he carries the "tagging box" with him so not a big deal to take a green or yellow with him. they usually get the dam's number if known... but often times now I have just started with the year, 1 for 21 and then started numbering... like 101, and such. He can't keep them straight half the time anymore so a simple number is better for at least the steer calves. The steers all get sold so not a big deal, and I will change the heifers numbers when they are confirmed preg as keeper replacements; to a number that identifies them as the "family number" they are from .....and who their dam is and sometimes even have their sire on the tags. [/QUOTE]
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