Posted by Vicki McGaugh on December 09, 2000 at 20:50:09:
In Reply to: Re: tattooing and ear tagging posted by Nat on December 08, 2000 at 15:08:08:
To add some more to the already great post, Jeffers Livestock catalog sells cattle leg bands, you can cut them in half length wize and make twice as many, they have velcro fasteners and you can write the does name on them or her ear tag number. I don't tattoo my kids young because as older does the tattoo's simply don't hold up well, on kids who are so identical that I would get them mixed up if they lost their collar, and by looking at their very thorough discription I write at birth, I put a tattoo in their flank. Waiting to put their permanant tattoo in when they are either sold or before being registered and going to their first show. 99% of the kids I sell are sold with just their puppy papers and then it becomes the responsibility of the owner to tattoo before they send in the paperwork, I will tattoo a kid if pressed but prefer not to. Simply don't want my tattoo in kids I sell that will never be registered. Since I don't show many kids most of my does are tattooed and have their registration sent in when they are yearlings and are bred for the first time.
The sheep markers that come in spray cans at pipestone.com work great also! Vicki