Animal ear tags, especially electronic ear tags, are key tools used in modern animal husbandry for individual animal identification and information management. It has a wide range of applications, mainly covering the following aspects:

 

Animal disease control and epidemic prevention monitoring: Electronic ear tags can record data such as the breed, source, immune status, and health information of each animal. Once an epidemic occurs, the source and flow of animals can be quickly traced, helping relevant departments to take timely control measures and effectively block the spread of the epidemic. For example, in the channel recognition, intelligent weighing, and customs epidemic prevention monitoring of livestock such as pigs, cows, and sheep, electronic ear tags have significantly improved the efficiency of epidemic prevention.

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Intelligent breeding management: By integrating RFID chips, temperature sensors, and motion monitoring modules, electronic ear tags can automatically collect animal growth data (such as temperature changes and activity levels), and work in conjunction with intelligent feeding systems, drone inspections, and other technologies. This not only reduces labor costs, but also improves feed utilization and breeding efficiency.

• Safety production and hazard warning: Electronic ear tags provide individual level real-time monitoring for breeding farms, enabling managers to promptly detect animal abnormalities (such as early signs of disease or environmental risks) and take prompt intervention measures to ensure production safety.

• Traceability and safety supervision of livestock products: Each animal's electronic ear tag has a lifelong unique code, which can be associated with the entire process information from the breeding farm, slaughterhouse to the sales terminal. Consumers can check the source of meat products by scanning the code, which helps to crack down on illegal activities such as dead pork and strengthen food safety supervision. For example, pig earring technology has been applied to the traceability system of tens of thousands of live pigs, covering epidemic prevention, circulation, and consumption links. ‌

• Improve management efficiency and reduce costs: Traditional manual recording is prone to errors and time-consuming, while electronic ear tags simplify daily operations such as immunization management, death records, and medication tracking through automatic data collection and transmission, making farm management more scientific and efficient.

 

Overall, animal ear tags have promoted the intelligent upgrading of animal husbandry through digital means, balancing economic benefits and public safety needs.