Livestock Farm Practice

Importance of identication

IMPORTANCE OF IDENTIFICATION

• It is important to identify the individual animal for several reasons, the chief being to prevent the substitution of one animal by another.

Purpose

• For identification and issuing certificates.
• For entry into herd book in the case of pedigree animals.
• For registering in the milk society.
• For insurance purposes.
• For licensing of breeding bulls under livestock improvement act.
• For identification incase of animals to be exported or purchasing of breeding bulls to issue / get certificates for diagnostic test. For official purpose especially Brucellosis, Tuberculosis, Johne’s disease.
• For keeping livestock records to assess the production and reproductive performance of individual animal or herd.
• For selection and culling.
• For progeny testing.