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Identification & Registrations

TAG GUIDELINES FOR MEMBERS

Council will meet on the 25th January 2010 to agree and recommend tagging guidelines for the 2010 Beltex lamb crop. Until firm information is available from the various Assembley's (Scotland, Ireland and Wales) no decision can be made. Members will be informed as soon as possible after this date.

TAGS FOR MEMBERS IN WALES

There is a difference between the English/Scottish and Welsh approach to the tagging of sheep with EID tags post 31 December 2009.

English legislation and corresponding guidance to keepers says that any animals born on or after 31 December 2009 that are not intended for slaughter before 12 months of age must be tagged with an approved UK EID tag and correspondingly marked non-EID second tag.

In England and Scotland, this same rules apply to sheep born prior to 31 December 2009 that have not been tagged for the first time by 31 December 2009.

However, sheep born on Welsh holdings before 31 December 2009 that have not been tagged for the first time by 31 December 2009 need not be identified by a UK EID and non-EID double. Keepers in Wales can continue to tag these previously unidentified animals with non-EID tags.

Consequently, orders can be taken from Welsh keepers for non-EID doubles to tag their previously unidentified sheep.