EID tags & EID-enabled weigh crate

EID tags & EID-enabled weigh crate summary allows the farmer to get an insight into how individual animal data can be collected and how groups of animals can be drafted (manually or automatically).

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Detail description

EID tags and EID weigh crate are one of the solutions that can be used to help determine the weight of a lamb.

Some of the issues faced by farmers are to do with lamb weighing (inside/outside); sorting and moving animals, drafting fat lambs for selling and timely weaning. Most of these issues can be helped with the use of electronic EID tags and EID-enabled weigh crate.

The aim of this tool is to collect individual animal data and draft groups of animals (manually or automatically). When the animals go through the crate, and in front of an RFID antenna, they are identified via their EID tag/bolus. If the crate has an auto-shedder, the sheep can also be sorted automatically.

 

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Contribution detail info

Project

SmaRT

Small Ruminant Technology - Precision Livestock Farming and Digital Technology for Small Ruminants

Location
United Kingdom
Authors
SRUC
Purpose
Adopt innovative practices

File type
document
Created on
Apr 25, 2026
Origin language
English
Official project website
License
CC BY-NC-ND