Smart tag investment easy decision

At a glance

Will Gibson
Genetics consultant and farmer

Challenges

• Making informed decisions based on individual animal identification.
• Keeping track of which animals have a continually low condition score or continually produce singles.

Benefits

• Compare ram sources and make breed changes.
• Culling decisions can be made easier based on individual animal performance.
• Draft out low performing ewes or ewes that consistently produce multiple lambs. 

Background

Will admits to being a strong advocate for collecting individual animal data using Allflex EID tags comes easily from his role with genetics consultancy NeXtgen Agri. “I know there’s a heap of value to come out of EID tagging by actually finding out what the flock is doing, without really doing any more work,” he says.