The use of EID has dramatically increased the efficiency and improve the accuracy of our sheep recording system. All lambs are tagged at birth with a full pedigree recorded along with birth weight, birth type, rearing type and lambing ease (even dead lambs are tagged so that a ewe's breeding history is accurately recorded). The tags will remain with the sheep for the life of the animal and utilised to record numerous performance records that are entered into the national Lambplan database to provide an accurate picture of the potential genetic performance of each animal.
Electronic tagging at Illoura during lambing time