![]() The z tag company provided us with new tags to retag the entire herd free of charge, which I felt was stand up, as well as being upfront admitting issues they had. He strongly recommended we switch to there two piece system in future. I had thought I just did a bad job of tagging these little guys. Use soft hands so if they do pull away as they do you don't keep hanging onto the pliers and tear their ear. You can do at any age, catch their head but a bit of extra restraint is handy like a chin bar or chain or a pair of nose pliers. ![]() He explained, this was due to the molding process in which one out of 10 in a group were defective and wound bend over a tear through ear. Sounds like the first job to do when you get your chute set up. He went on to ask if we had calves with bent ears etc from tagging, which we had a few. ![]() It explains why they started disappearing. The small tags they sold were feedlot tags which are not designed for long use, which has its place. Lazered in lieu of just ink impressed on top which wears off. The tags being sold by local feed store were cheapest version they had, they need to be ( forget term) Very responsive and honest with problems they had. Long story short that summer the cows starting losing the small tags/ gone. Ad by RobertoDesigner Ad from shop RobertoDesigner. Two years in the numbers on large tags were unreadable, but we felt ok in that the small back up tags were doing there job. Cow Tag SVG Cut File, Cow Tag Cricut, Silhouette, Cricut svg, Cattle Tag svg, Ear Tag svg, Eartag svg, Western Craft svg. We have always put a large tag and a small tag with same number, so if one was gone we had a back-up. We switched to one piece z-tags a couple years ago.
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