Bright pink ear tags for sheep are now being sold to help raise funds for breast cancer. A company producing sheep tags has come up with the novel idea to raise money for the McGrath Foundation. The ...

Is it the top picture, which shows Brendan Carey, from Scanclear, walking away while sheep run freely through a portable scanning race? Or is it the lower picture, in which he is trying to shove ewes ...

THERE is still some confusion among farmers regarding the requirements for the electronic tagging of sheep. An electronic identification (EID) set refers to a pair of tags, one being a mart tag for ...

New technology could help tackle lameness in sheep by providing farmers with an early warning of a developing problem in their flocks, researchers have found. More than 90% of UK farmers report ...

A LEGACY of the foot-and-mouth epidemic was one of the biggest talking points on the NSA Welsh Sheep showground. A LEGACY of the foot-and-mouth epidemic was one of the biggest talking points on the ...

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RESEARCH in Wales has confirmed that plans by EC Food Safety Commissioner David Byrne to make farmers mark each sheep with ear tags and electronic identification are neither practical nor effective.

Sheep producers who move animals across state lines must now have the animals officially identified with a USDA ear tag. The new regulation is part of the National Scrapie Eradication Program, says ...