The following information comes from the AUDID200, revision date 2/14/07
ONSITE RANCH/FARM AGE AND SOURCE TRAINING DOCUMENT
The only way age can truly be verified is through records kept on calving dates.
We must ensure documentation transfer is accurate; thus, we will be conducting ANNUAL onsite evaluations to verify animal age and source information.
The following checklist includes those elements you will be requested to discuss and or demonstrate during the onsite evaluation to show you have in place practices to ensure you verify animal age and the ability to represent a certain number of head as age verified:
- What is the size of your operation?
- If you have a diverse operation and run cattle that are purchased, how do you identify them separately from calves born on your ranch/farm?
- What are your calving season windows?
- How many calves do you typically market annually?
- What processes and procedures do you have in place to verify animal age?
- What records do you keep to verify animal age?
- What records do you keep to verify animal source?
- What records do you keep to verify source animal numbers shipped and/or sold in a given year?
- Will you show me your cattle and take me through an example regarding how you take an individual calf or a group of calves back to age records?
- How do you train other people on your operation your methods of identification and how to record calving information?
AGE VERIFICATION:
- Individual Animal Age Verification (individual calf birthdates-month/day/year format)
Calving Season Start Date: (m/d/y) Calving Season End Date: (m/d/y)
- Record Keeping Examples: MUST show the YEAR
- documentation on a calendar showing when the first calf was born and the last calf for each year (i.e. 2005) and season's (i.e. Spring) calf crop;
- Calving book, or
- Electronic records.
- Don't forget to document total number of calves born in each season.
- Record Keeping Examples: MUST show the YEAR
- Group Age Verification (i.e. birthdate range)
Calving Season Start Date: (m/d/y) Calving Season End Date: (m/d/y)
- Record Keeping Examples: MUST show the YEAR
- documentation on a calendar showing when the first calf was born and the last calf for each year (i.e. 2005) and season's (i.e. Spring) calf crop;
- Calving book; or
- Electronic records.
- Don't forget to document total number of calves born in each season.
- If you do not pull your bulls and have a year-round calving season you must have records to support individual calf birthdates tied to a unique animal I.D to be eligible.
- Record Keeping Examples: MUST show the YEAR
- Only calves born on your operation are eligible for source and age verification.
SOURCE VERIFICATION:
Lost tag procedure:
If the AAD program compliant tag is lost, it may be replaced under the following conditions:
- The tag is lost while the animal is in the possession of the ORIGINAL supplier
- No commingling has occurred
Keep your records a minimum of three years.
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