. Hogology. antly are losing. Ifall the sow pigs from a certain soware in the same ear mark I have noway to distinguish these. This isvery inconvenient at breeding time. I bought a tattoo marking ap-paratus and ink, but read that tattoodid not show well on red skin, so Inever used it. I used a belt punchand small blade pocket knife, but hadto re-mark several as the slits wouldgrow up. I am using a V-markermark, so this will last her all her days. cut a V. This stands for No. 1, sameas an ear tag No. 1. On same earhalf way between the center and endon top cut V. This stands for No. 2sow pig. At
. Hogology. antly are losing. Ifall the sow pigs from a certain soware in the same ear mark I have noway to distinguish these. This isvery inconvenient at breeding time. I bought a tattoo marking ap-paratus and ink, but read that tattoodid not show well on red skin, so Inever used it. I used a belt punchand small blade pocket knife, but hadto re-mark several as the slits wouldgrow up. I am using a V-markermark, so this will last her all her days. cut a V. This stands for No. 1, sameas an ear tag No. 1. On same earhalf way between the center and endon top cut V. This stands for No. 2sow pig. At end of left ear cut Vstands for a figure 3. On bottomside of left ear about the center a Vcut stands for a figure 5. Betweenthe center and the end on the bottomof the left ear a V cut stands for fig-ure 4. If the first sow had 5 sow pigsand 4 boars that we marked, the sowswould be marked as shown and allthe boars be marked alike with No. one plus five make six, we cutone and five for number six. For. The Sketch Shows W. A. WadsworthsEar Marking- System I put all the boars of the same litterin the same mark, as they later willhave different owners. This savesthe marks running up so fast. Pigsare marked when I cut oflE the teethto keep them from damaging eachother or the udder at two days old. In looking at the accompanyingcut we notice no mark near the have found the upper side of theear next to the head is a mean placenow so the marks will never growup. I put each sow pig in a separateto mark and hard to see later. Herea mark disfigures the ear. We starton the left ear top line, mid-way, and No. 7 we cut 2 and 5. For 8 cut 3and 5. For 9 cut 4 and 5. All markson the left ear stand for units, whileall marks on the right ear stand for tens. A cut V at the middle top sideright ear stands for No. 10. A markright ear top side near the end standsfor No. 20. A mark at the end ofright ear makes N-o. 30. On the bot-tom of right ear we cut 40 and 50, asshown in cut. Now 1
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