Elevate your flock with eID

Five benefits of using eID

The value eID can bring to individual sheep businesses varies, but broadly includes these five benefits:

1. Measure the response to management
eID makes it possible to make a change and measure the difference – such as matching condition score at joining to pregnancy scanning result.

2. Manage individuals while also managing the mob
Use eID to monitor individual animals while running them in large mobs. The technology allows mobs of sheep to be boxed together for periods of time before drafting them back into their relevant classes, reducing labour requirements and streamlining grazing efficiency while retaining the ability to monitor individual animals.

3. Increase labour flexibility
Reliably condition scoring individual animals requires training – if key staff members are busy or leave, it’s not always possible to have a trained individual to complete these assessments. However, when eID equipment is set up, relatively untrained staff can collect weights – information which can be used to assess an animal’s status.

4. Select animals to retain
Use eID to collect data on individual animals to aid decisions such as which sheep to retain in the flock based on their performance. To do this effectively the data collection process must start as early as possible, from lamb marking.

5. Enhance traceability
The ability to track animals as they move through the value chain is an important feature of eID, but it’s not only useful for industry to prepare for biosecurity breaches. Consumers increasingly expect to be able to trace their food and fibre to its source and are willing to pay more for products they trust.