GMP ID Tags - ENGLISH

MSD Animal Health, South Africa, have taken the lead and the initiative to be one of the distributors of the Good management protocol supported animal identification ear tags in South Africa.

To date, no uniform, centralized, system has been available as a platform for the Livestock sector (Commercial and communal farmers), State Veterinary Departments, Law enforcement Departments, auctioneers, feedlots, abattoirs, meat processing plants and the meat retail sector.

MSD Animal Health believes that the introduction of this first in South Africa will have a huge impact in the animal health management throughout all sectors involved.

The ear tags are high quality products from an International tag manufacturer, Allflex, Europe. The eartags with their numbering system allows for an affordable system versus EID / RFID which currently is not an economically viable system for the average South African livestock owner / farmer, and many other role players in the livestock sector internationally.

In this introductory phase, the ear tags will be available from early March 2007, from Co-operatives, participating animal health shops and Veterinarians.

Three types of tags are available and depending on sufficient demand from the livestock sector, more could be added.  

Examples of:

Small
Sheep, Goats, Pigs, Ostriches

       Sheep    Goat    Pig    Ostrich   

Large
Cattle

Cow

The MSD Animal Health sales team will assist you

Value add:
Animal health recordings wherein vaccinations, de-worming, dipping etc may be recorded will have the ability to assist livestock producers to ask for an extra premium for well managed and “healthy animals”.

*Free ( User Terms & conditions apply ) downloadable and very affordable GMPBasic ™ software on CD, will be available with the GMP ID Tags from the participating outlets.

*Free downloadable software is also available from the Internet.

The software usage is for *free use with the GMPTAGS (including the ID tags). To use the system, GMP ID tags must be used to capture the animals data. The GMP ID Tags that are functional on the system, each with it’s own unique number linked to a central data base, will be available for sale at participating co-operatives, veterinary clinics and Government animal health sectors

Unique individual identification is very important for accurate record keeping and financial control.

In livestock farming it is critical to have groups of uniform female animals. Heifers should be of uniform weight and age in order to increase reproduction efficacy, nutritional and medicinal management.

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Support and enquiries  

Cell +27 83 630 7181

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AFRIKAANS

Select the Download program button on the GMPTAGS website interface. The following steps need to be completed once ALL the DOWNLOAD sections have downloaded, your USER NAME and PASSWORD the OWNER SETUP details and LOCATION SETUP . THEN, you can CAPTURE ANIMAL DETAILS. Once this 4th step has been completed, then you SHOULD IDEALLY update to the Animal Health Database via the Internet.

 

  • Register as a user, setup your details
  • Register each animal with its tag (MSD Animal Health ID tag for livestock)
  • Register the animal details
  • Register the medical treatments applied
  • Register routine procedures applied eg. Vaccinations, de-worming, dipping etc.
  • Weigh animals, monitor ADG
    (ave. daily gain)
  • Register status of animal eg.active, quarantine, dead, sold etc
  • Change of ownership
    (change of location)
    DISPATCH, send animal details electronically to new (byuer) owner
  • Notifiable diseases record or EROSION disease notification to potential new owner ( farmer, feedlot, abattoir, meat processor = human food chain safety protocols )
  • Veterinarians can enter their client’s livestock test results eg. TB, CA or Trichomonas etc on line to the benefit of all livestock producers who will be able to insist on the animal’s latest health screening tests conducted prior to purchase.
  • Assists livestock auctioneers in providing real, live info to their prospective clients on the day.
  • Adds value through providing animal health records for new prospective buyer.
  • Animal change of ownership can be concluded at the auction premises.
  • LIVE UPDATE of all data can be done via internet and should be done as regularly as possible.
  • Annual animal health program cost projections can be done at a service fee available from GMPTags.

Regular improvements are done to the program and updates to the central database on the central server environment are recommended in order not to lose any of your information.

Browse through the different fields of the software to get a feel of what, where, how to use the features.

This software is like any computer program, the less data you enter, the less you get out of it, the MORE inputs you do the more use becomes available to you from this software.

SELECT the animal in the TRANSFER ( DISPATCH ) section. Complete the details, who, where the animal is being transferred ( DISPATCHED ) to. Now, transfer the animal and update this to the Animal Central Data Base. Once you have completed this, complete with the animal update to the database. The reference number that you receive needs to be sent to the new owner, per SMS or e-mail or verbally. You will NO LONGER be able to use this animal’s info as it is now considered the property of the RECIPIENT !!!

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CA testing of Cattle herds 

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