A different tagging result

[8thline]

I farm a couple hundred cows and am convinced the problem lies with the tag manufacturers.I have used management tags of many manufactures and find a huge difference of quality from lot to lot and year to year.I have managment tags in some real old girls that were put in many years ago and still ok.i have Z tags plus various other makers that i put in a long time ago and are fine.The second last batch were terrible and i lost so many on my red cows i,ve lost all record of who these cows are.We did our best to reidentify these cows and backed up thiers plus all my mature cows I.D. with RFID buttons.That batch of RFID was terrible as not only did the backs become star shaped and then of course fell out but the through the ear shaft part is disintigrating causing loss.These are only less than one year in the cow.I have other RFID in for years and are fine .Talking to tag makers at trade shows tell us they will gladly replace for free but i dont see them volunteering to come to help reinstall them,but more importantly all my id on these cows are lost.Some of these cows were purchased from various location around the province so if some tracing issue did arise this would be a dead end for tracking.It amazes me plastics wont disintigrate in land fill for 100 yrs but we cant have id tags that last a year..The tag makers should be held accountable for the junk they sell.

[ProFarmer]

I will second that last comment