Did you know that all calves in Sweden must have these ear tags and that they all contain several pieces of very important information
The ear mark acts as the calf’s identity card.
-SJV stands for the Swedish Agricultural Agency
-SE 070341 is our Swedish farm’s unique number
-236.8 is the calf’s own unique number
These tags must be in the ears for the rest of the animal’s life and if one is lost we must order a new tag that looks the same with the same number and letters.

An animal never changes its number and even after it dies, we cannot order the same unique individual number again until after 10 years.
If an animal does not have its ear tags, it must not leave the farm it is on until new ones are ordered and in place in the ears.

Why?
This is part of food and animal safety to ensure that we can trace animals even if they are sold to other farms, should we have an outbreak of an infectious disease we can easily through the central database find all the animals that have stayed on it affected farm and which animals that individual has had contact with.

For those of us who work with the conservation of endangered breeds, the ear tag is also an excellent way to confirm the identity of a known animal and link it to the stud book. We work with a closed studbook where only two parents who are in the studbook can have an offspring that can be registered. Therefore, all our land breed cows can be traced back to the original animals that make up the breed’s origins.

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