Electronic ear tags for tracing fattening pigs according to housing and production system

F. Burose; T. Jungbluth; M. Zähner

Electronic ear tags for tracing fattening pigs according to housing and production system

In: Precision livestock farming '09

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F. Burose

F. Burose ¹Agroscope Reckenholz-Tänikon Research Station ART, Tänikon, CH-8356 Ettenhausen, Switzerland, frank.burose@art.admin.ch

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T. Jungbluth

T. Jungbluth ²University of Hohenheim, Institute for Agricultural Engineering, 70593 Stuttgart, Germany

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M. Zähner

M. Zähner ¹Agroscope Reckenholz-Tänikon Research Station ART, Tänikon, CH-8356 Ettenhausen, Switzerland, frank.burose@art.admin.ch

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Pages:: 267–271

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.3920/9789086866632_033

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Electronic labelling is necessary for automatic, individual tracking of pigs. To ensure unique identification of animals, the label must remain in place and its functional reliability must be assured. The loss rates and performance of one plastic and three electronic ear tags were analysed on 16 commercial farms in two different housing and production systems in each case. A total of 9,325 experimental animals were examined from the application of the ear tag in the suckling period until the end of the fattening period. The functional reliability of the electronic ear tags was very good. On average, only 1% of the ear tags on all commercial farms proved defective by the end of the fattening period. The ear-tag loss rate ranged from 0.2% to 19.4%, with a mean value of 2.8%. There were no significant differences between ear-tag types and housing and production systems in terms of either functional reliability or loss rates.

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Precision livestock farming '09

E-Book ISBN:: 9789086866632

Publisher:: Wageningen Academic

Print Publication Date:: 30 Oct 2009

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