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Way to go Canada

Tam

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CCIA Age Verification Reaches 2 Million Birthdates



For immediate release April 25, 2006- The Canadian Cattle Identification Agency’s (CCIA) Age Verification Website continues to see a dramatic increase in participation. As of April 24, 2006, over 2 Million birthdates have been entered into the system.
Nadine Meade, Project Manager of Database Enhancements, is thrilled with the continued support from producers across Canada. “Canadian producers have shown that they are ready to market their cattle as Age Verified and ensure we meet the demands of our international customers.”

The CCIA has seen a dramatic increase in the amount of birthdates submitted since the website became available in 2005. “The biggest increase occurred in December when the Japanese border opened and the numbers have continued since that time”, Meade added.

Age Verification is free of charge and offered to producers across Canada. Producers who do not have internet access can assign a third party user to submit information on their behalf. To submit birthdates, please visit www.canadaid.ca

The CCIA is an industry led non-profit organization established to ensure accurate animal identification and efficient animal disease and food safety traceback.
 

Mike

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Manitoba_Rancher said:
Way to go Canada!!! How many cattle are age verified with actual birthdates to go with the cattle?


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CCIA Age Verification Reaches 2 Million Birthdates

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Mike

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rancher said:
You mean you can tell the exact day the calf was born? Would be impossible to tag every calf here.

You don't bring your cows in close to calve? My registered calves even have a time-of-day next to the date in the red book.

Am I gonna have to come help you calve next year? :???: :wink:
 

IL Rancher

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Everyone here is tagged and the date is written on the back of the tag... The only problem comes when the calf strips its ear tag or momma is a tad bit over protective... I would say it is probably 5% or so a year that end up taggless from either mean mommas or ripping them out.. Hopefully there is a distinctive mark on the calf that allow you to retag but when you have 5 soilid black heifers all born in the same 2 week period out of half sisters and the same bull good luck...

Of course, shiping the pyscho's every year is knocking down on the problems.
 

Big Muddy rancher

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rancher said:
You mean you can tell the exact day the calf was born? Would be impossible to tag every calf here.


Rancher we just record the day the first calf is born so all calves are that age. Some will be younger but not older. We have been audited for records of birth and bull turn out dates. We bought our CCIA tags in consecutive order so registered the starting and ending numbers in the database. It satisfys the requirements. You don't have to tag at birth but before they leave home.
 

rancher

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Big Muddy rancher said:
rancher said:
You mean you can tell the exact day the calf was born? Would be impossible to tag every calf here.


Rancher we just record the day the first calf is born so all calves are that age. Some will be younger but not older. We have been audited for records of birth and bull turn out dates. We bought our CCIA tags in consecutive order so registered the starting and ending numbers in the database. It satisfys the requirements. You don't have to tag at birth but before they leave home.

So that is what I do, I record the dates, keep the records and pass them on to the feedlot where they tag them. Thanks BMR for the answer.
 

Bill

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rancher said:
Big Muddy rancher said:
rancher said:
You mean you can tell the exact day the calf was born? Would be impossible to tag every calf here.


Rancher we just record the day the first calf is born so all calves are that age. Some will be younger but not older. We have been audited for records of birth and bull turn out dates. We bought our CCIA tags in consecutive order so registered the starting and ending numbers in the database. It satisfys the requirements. You don't have to tag at birth but before they leave home.

So that is what I do, I record the dates, keep the records and pass them on to the feedlot where they tag them. Thanks BMR for the answer.
You would record the dates and keep records but you also tag them and enter the tag number range and birth date in the CCIA database.
 

rancher

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For all this work why haven't you traced all the cows on the last BSE case? I though all this BS you were suppose to have 48 hour trace back.
 

DiamondSCattleCo

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rancher said:
For all this work why haven't you traced all the cows on the last BSE case? I though all this BS you were suppose to have 48 hour trace back.

48 hour traceback on the diseased animal, which by the way, happened in under 24 hours. Someone posted how many others had been traced in another thread already, but it included sisters and calves of those sisters.

Rod
 

Mrs.Greg

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Just read on my Telus site..19 animals traced back from last animal are going to be euthanized and tested...animals appear to be healthy,so trace back is working,at least a whole herds are not being killed and tested like originally.
 

rancher

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I posted this once, but the black Helicopters shot it out of the air before it made it here.

Stay with me I am a bit slow on this ID thingy. You found the first diseased cow in 24 hours because the owner turned her in. So why not take his CCA numbers or what ever you call them and poke them in the data base and find the others in 48 hours.

Canada to test 19 herdmates in mad cow case



Yahoo! News

Tue Apr 25, 2006

Reuters



WINNIPEG, Manitoba (Reuters) - The Canadian Food Inspection Agency said on Tuesday it has located 19 cattle believed to have eaten the same feed as the dairy cow that tested positive for the brain-wasting mad cow disease earlier this month.



The agency said the animals will be tested for mad cow disease, or bovine spongiform encephalopathy, within days.



The disease is believed to be spread by contaminated feed and the agency is reviewing the feed sources on the cow's birth farm.



The agency confirmed on April 16 the pure-bred Holstein cow from a farm in the province of British Columbia was Canada's fifth native-born mad cow case.



The six-year-old animal was born after a feed ban brought in 1997 that prohibited adding protein from cows and other ruminant animals such as goats and sheep to cattle feed.



The animal, discovered as part of testing on cattle considered susceptible of having contracted BSE, did not enter the food chain, the agency has stated.



The agency continues to trace cattle that may have been exposed to the same feed as the cow, but does not expect to find additional BSE cases in these cases, based on international experience.



Investigators are also looking for recent offspring of the animal.

Canada's first native-born BSE case hit the country's cattle industry hard in 2003, when the United States banned imports of live cattle. The importation of cattle under 30 months old resumed in 2005 and the U.S. is considering ending the ban on older cattle.



This most recent case did not appear to affect the market.
 

Big Muddy rancher

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rancher, The CCIA tag give 2 points to trace from. The animal and where it was born. As yet we are not tracking movement on animals with the tags ie. reading the RFID at sale barns ect. That may very well come and with the RFID tags in place with the right equipment it might not be to big of a problem. What ever gets decided it has to work for the cattle producer.
 
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