Posted by Karen on September 18, 2002 at 06:31:40:
In Reply to: Re: scrapie tag posted by Max on September 17, 2002 at 19:14:27:
So far we haven't gotten hit with that. But nobody seems to know just what is correct. Even if I call Michigan State University and get it right from the state vet, the rules change at the sale barns. Some of the sales are worse than others and just make up rules as they go. MSU told me bottle baby lambs didn't need to be tagged as they were a mini breed and considered pets, a small back yard sale barn refused them, even though we had a premis #. The larger barn just put in their own tags and on the paperwork identified our farm as the place of origin, recorded our premis # and we were good to go. Since then we have gotten our state tags and nothing leaves, not even does without a tag just to be safe.