Patent ID: 6968639
Filing Date: 2005-11-29
Classification: A01K

Abstract:
1. An ear tag for marking animals comprising a female portion including a female head optionally borne by or formed in a first panel, a male portion including a male punch optionally borne by or formed in a second panel, identifying means being borne by at least one of the male or female portions, wherein the male punch is formed by first and second separable punch elements, the first punch element has an end, which in use, becomes housed in the female head to fasten the ear tag onto the ear of an animal and the second punch element forms an organic matter sampling device during the passage of the male punch through the ear of an animal, the second punch element is moveable in an axial channel in the first punch element and is withdrawn from said axial channel through the second panel of the male portion after fastening the tag onto the animal's ear.