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Smart tag investment easy decision
At a glance
Will Gibson
Genetics consultant and farmer
Challenges
- Making informed decisions based on individual animal identification.
- Keeping track of which animals have a continually low condition score or continually produce singles.
Benefits
- Compare ram sources and make breed changes.
- Culling decisions can be made easier based on individual animal performance.
- Draft out low performing ewes or ewes that consistently produce multiple lambs.
Background
Will admits to being a strong advocate for collecting individual animal data using Allflex EID tags comes easily from his role with genetics consultancy NeXtgen Agri. “I know there’s a heap of value to come out of EID tagging by actually finding out what the flock is doing, without really doing any more work,” he says.
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Potential value gained far exceeds the $2 per head cost of putting an electronic identification (EID) tag in the ear of every ewe lamb in the country, says genetics consultant and farmer Will Gibson.
Will Gibson