What Are Ear Tags?

Ear tags are one of the animal identifications. They are used to prove the identity of livestock and carry individual animal information. They are applied to the ears of livestock.

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Ear tags are one of the animal identifications. They are used to prove the identity of livestock and carry individual animal information. They are applied to the ears of livestock.

Chinese name

Ear tag

Foreign name

Ear Tag

Attributes

Animal logo

lie in

Livestock ears

Used for

Identification of livestock

Pig ear tag

English name: Ear Tag

The ear tag consists of a main tag and an auxiliary tag; the main tag consists of the main tag ear tag face, ear tag neck, and ear tag head; the back of the main tag ear tag face is connected to the ear tag neck, and the ear tag head penetrates when used Livestock ears, auxiliary tags embedded, ear tags fixed, ear tag necks left in perforations. The ear tag surface contains encoded information.

At present, the ear tags implemented in China mainly use two-dimensional code ear tags and electronic ear tags.

The two-dimensional code ear tag uses laser to engrav the encoded information on the ear tag surface. The electronic ear tag uses RFID technology, a built-in chip and antenna, and the encoded information is stored in the chip. Because RFID has the characteristics of non-contact, long distance, automatic identification of moving objects, readable and writable, some automated measurement, measurement, and quantitative systems have been popularized in the animal husbandry industry. At present, a variety of livestock feeding and management systems, such as an automatic animal weighing management system and an automatic milk production measurement management system, are based on the use of electronic ear tags.

The meaning of ear tags

Through the identification function of electronic ear tags, the whole process of monitoring and monitoring animals from birth slaughter sales consumer final consumer end is monitored.

1. Conducive to animal disease control

The electronic ear tag can manage each animal's ear tag along with its breed, source, production performance, immune status, health status, owner and other information. Once an epidemic situation and the quality of animal products occur, they can be tracked (traced) Its source is to distinguish responsibilities and plug loopholes, so as to realize the scientific and institutionalization of animal husbandry and improve the level of animal husbandry management.

2. Conducive to safe production

The electronic ear tag is an excellent tool for comprehensive identification and detailed management of a large number of livestock. With the electronic ear tag, breeding companies can discover hidden dangers in time and quickly take corresponding control measures to ensure safe production.

3. Improve the management level of the farm

In livestock and poultry management, easy-to-manage ear tags are used to identify individual animals (pigs). Each animal (pig) is assigned an ear tag with a unique code to achieve the unique identification of the individual. It is used in pig farms The ear tag mainly records data such as farm number, pig house number, and pig individual number. After each pig is ear-marked at the pig farm to realize the unique identification of the individual pig, the individual pig's material management, immune management, disease management, death management, weighing management, medication management are realized by means of reading and writing by a handheld computer , Daily information management, such as records.

4. Facilitate national safety supervision of livestock products

A pig s electronic ear tag code is carried for life. Through this electronic code, it can be traced back to the pig's production site, acquisition site, slaughter plant, and the supermarket where the pork is sold. Finally, there will be records. Such a marking function is beneficial to crack down on a series of participants selling sick and dead pork, monitor the safety of domestic animal products, and ensure that the public can eat healthy pork.