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Uniform Plan For
Identifying Cattle
Getting Underway
The “Christmas-tree” effect contrived when there are several different identifying tags for herd improvement or disease control programs in cattle may soon be passe.
Dr. Frank Ellmore, dairy husbandman at VPI, says a nationwide, uniform plan for identifying dairy and beef cattle with only ope eartag for each animal is being pioneered by the U. S. Department of Agriculture.
The plan is based on a numbering system found practical in the past for use in dairy herd improvement activities. It provides enough combinations of letters and numbers to tag more than eight billion cattle in the United States and territories without a single duplication. Thus many different groups may use the identification number provided by the first tagging of an animal without danger of finding later that several cattle had this same number. The system also provides for each state.
The office of the State Veterinarian in Richmond will be responsible for making block assignments in ‘Virginia. The series of numbers which will be used in the dairy herd improvement and artificial breeding program will be issued by the VPI Agricultural Extension Service .
In the past, identification numbers for cattle have been duplicated nationally, and even within the - state, often resulting in Considerable confusion when the records are handled on modern recordkeeping machinery. This is particularly true in the DHIA program of proving dairy sires by dam and daughter comparisons.
Ellmore says the new plan has these major advantages: no duplication of identification numbers, only one tag per afiimal, and no additional cost to individuals and groups.
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