This is darn naive.
In the long run ear tags don't work real well. They fall out, get torn out,
and get switched with other ear tags.
Thousands of them have been switched at the US/Canadian border so that health
papers would match up a little better.
I expect the electronic pellets would also present no real problem after
people figured out how to reverse engineer and swap them.
The only thing that will really work is an ear tattoo. This will work even
with black Holstein ears or dark Jersey ears.
The main drawback is that officials would have to wrassle the cow to a
standstill, and then hold a 250 watt light bulb behind her ear.
I can hardly imagine that the nation could find and employ such officials.
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Kindest regards,
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Owenlea Holsteins
9430 Spencer Road
Homerville, Ohio 44235
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home page http://www.bright.net/~fwo
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