Ohio Dept. of Ag. , 3 yr tag check

We have to do this in WI only it checks every tag, farm tags, microchips, and officials. We make ours coincide with our TB testing so it is done in one shot. All I can say is its always a fun time! Note the sarcasm...

Yep, here in Iowa also.

Program Standards, Page 17, last paragraph,


 


Thereafter,  a physical herd inventory must be preformed for all herds enrolled in the CWD HCP no more than 3 years after the last complete physical herd inventory for the herd.  Physical inventories may be conducted on unrestrained animals providing that it is possible to visually inspect and verify at least one CWD HCP required identification number and device on each animal, and that information is matched to her records. A animals may be temporally gathered in pens or other means used for viewing.  Any animals in which ID cannot be visually inspected will need some form of restraint for conformation. 


 


This inspection can be done by accredited veterinarians]


 


Hope this helps you.  


Gary

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18pxWhat's the deal with the Dept. of Ag.'s 3 year tag check?


 


18pxAs I understand it, every three years you have to knock your whole herd down, and check their metal tags.


 


18pxIs this right?


 


18pxIs it going to stand?


 


18pxWhat an unnecessary, and dangerous thing to do to your deer, not to mention expensive.


 


18pxAppreciate your thoughts.




Yup to make your life a little easier..Dont use metal! Get you bangle tags made with your farm name or pin on them and that counts as an official form, and they can see it from a distance so they dont have to touch your animal. In Ny we have to have 2 forms so i use the RFID button tags in the ear or a microchip in the tail. Very easy to scan and so easy on the animal and inventory time. Like Ryan said, Set your dates so testing and inventory work together!!

We had to do this to in PA too if we decided to stay certified. so I went to monitored to avoid all the extra rules. I never sold a breeder to a certified herd anyways ( only to monitored herds), so monitored fits my program well. Years and years of tb testing never got me anywhere, I just never got into Big pedigrees and advertising and pretty much anything related to selling to the breeder market so I realized I was wasting time and money that I didn't need to by staying certified. The monitored program seems like the greatest thing ever for guys like me that only sell to preserves within their state, I just wonder why I wasn't in the monitored program from the start! The only negative is I can't sell to preserves outside my state, but fortunately there are several in my area that have been great to deal with.

Another thing that made it an easy decision for me to switch is the fact that PA is a CWD state, and many other states that used to accept our deer have shut us down, so we can't do the out of state sells like we used to. I must however give many thanks to our pa deer farmers association, because although many states shut us down, they fought and were able to keep some boarders open. That is important to me, even though I personally no longer can benefit from the remaining open boarders, it's very important we maintain our freedoms to do in and out of state sales. So thank you deer association for that.

So whitepine, I don't know your situation, but if you don't do much out of state sells, and you have preserves in Ohio to sell too, perhaps switching to a monitored status in an option you may want to consider if you guys have that alternative.