Note: this blog post was originally posted on lambtracker.com and has been moved here for preservation. Some information may be outdated.
The ConvertToEID module is now ready for testing against live sheep! During the transition, we’ll still need to look up sheep based on existing federal or farm tag data. After an evaluation of the available ear, we’ll decide whether to add a third tag, add a new EID tag, or even remove the farm tag and replace it with an EID tag.
The ConvertToEID module is a task in the program that provides a screen to look up a sheep, add and remove federal and farm tags, and scan and add EID tags. We’re ready to test it by adding EID tags to all of our breeding rams – hopefully this week.
In other news, the Shearwell SET tags are now officially approved as US Scrapie IDs, as I reported earlier. That’s the good news. The bad news is that, with the government shutdown, we cannot yet get into the system to order any tags. As soon as that is resolved, I will be ordering pairs of SET tags for our sheep. Starting with the 2014 lambing, all newborn lambs will get an EID at birth.