Data used in EID regulatory impact assessment
Numbers of livestock
- 7,100,000 sheep in Scotland(1)
- 3,700,000 lambs (1)
- 3,400,00 breeding and other sheep (1)
- 2,600,000 lambs intended for slaughter (2)
- 1,500,000 lambs retained for breeding (2)
- 5% tag loss rate (3)
- 5% on farm death rate (2-3% lowland farms, 5-7% upland farms),
1 Figures from Economic Report on Scottish Agriculture
2 Estimates from Industry
3 Tag manufacturer estimates
4 Figures from the Scottish Electronic Research Pilot
Prices
Livestock Labour | £7.97 per hour 1 |
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Single eartags | £0.15 each 2 |
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Double eartags | £0.30 per pair 2 |
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Replacement eartags (non identical) | £0.15 each 2 |
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EID eartag | £0.85 each 2 |
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EID Hand held reader | £600 each 2 |
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Market fixed panel | £10,000 each 2 |
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Abattoir fixed panel | £5,000 each 2 |
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1 Scottish Government Economists on costing Land Management Contracts 2009
2 Figures from market research
Timings
- 6 seconds per animal to read with hand held
- 3 seconds per animals to read with fixed panel
- 120 seconds per animal to manually read and record
- 5 min to upload electronic batch
- 100 seconds to identify an animals with two means of id (one EID tag, one conventional tag)
- 33 seconds to apply a single tag
(all timings from the Scottish Electronic Research Pilot).