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Problems with readings of electronic tagged sheep in dairy flocks

Reliable traceability system in animal production is a crucial part for protection of animal and human health. Small ruminants are usually ear’ tagged but this tagging system especially in extensive production systems is not reliable. Use of radio frequency indentifying devices (RFID, or electronic identification) is more suitable. Ruminal boluses (Rumitag 20gr, hdx) are first chosen for ruminant tagging because they are easy and early applicable, easy to read and fraud resistant but they encounter some problems, mainly reading failure. In our trial we investigated reading failure on one sheep dairy farm. Six hundred and eight sheep have been milked during the trial and read for four times during milking. In all four readings we had quite high reading failure in comparison to other author findings. Probable cause for this very high failure could be the use of hand held readers in crowded environment which caused lot of double reading. This means that reading protocol should be improved. Unfortunately we did not have fixed reader so we could not compare readings.

RFID; Small ruminants; Reading failure

Rad je prezentiran na skupu 17th International Symposium "Animal Science Days" (Animal Nutrition and Production Systems - Communications), održanom od 15.-18.2009., Abano Terme - Padova, Italija.Animal Nutrition and Production Systems - Communications