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Injectable RFID tags are now available.They are injected to remain under the skin of the animal while delivered through a special syringe, their advantage is that they are less painful also there is no outside identification mark for a malicious person to know where the tag is embedded in order to remove it or modify it.The RFID chip inside the tag is generally ‘Read-Only” so that data once recorded cannot be modified.
The concept of animal tagging is nothing new. In early days, the various cattle farms and ranches used methods like branding irons, to label the name or symbol of the ranch to which an animal belonged.A red hot branding iron, having the proprietary mark of the farmer or rancher, was used on the poor animal to etch out a mark on its hide.(This is the origin of the term “brand” for an item. Surprising, isn’t it?)
Thus if the animals grazed in a common area, the cowboys or shepherds could identify their animals because of the branding. There were obvious disadvantages to this system, one of them being that it was a painful process for the animal itself. After branding, the actual identification of the animals was done manually. The only advantage was, that there was little room for dispute with another animal owner or ranch owner about the rightful ownership of a particular animal.Branding gave way to physical plastic tags mounted on the animals in holes made in their ears specifically for this purpose, Though! identification was still done manually.This was the situation for cattle and other commercially raised animals and there was no system however for pets too.Therefore pet owners always had problems when it came to identifying lost pets.
Usually they had to rely on some birth mark or the animal’s response to a name when called out, or the animals affectionate reaction to the owner—a very subjective way of identification indeed.With the advent of RFID technology, the plastic dumb tags began to be replaced with RFID tags. They were still mounted in the same fashion, but now there were several more advantages. The first was that the tags were read easily from a distance, with a hand held reader. The tags themselves were just a number, but this number pointed to a large amount of data in a remote database which contained other information about the animal like age, vaccination and medication record.This made record keeping easy and efficient without becoming a pain for the ranch owner. It also satisfied emerging requirements about traceability and food safety, especially after the mad cow disease and similar scares.