Country guidesLivestock Identification Rules in the GCC: KSA, UAE, Oman, Qatar
Livestock tagging and registration across the GCC: camel chips and Naama in Saudi Arabia, TAMM in Abu Dhabi, Dubai, Oman's camel programme and Qatar.
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Livestock tagging, RFID ear tags and smart scales
The tag number and its colour together are the animal's identity. RFID tags with a reader and a scale end hand-written numbers and mistakes.
These guides cover numbering, buying tags and scales, and identification rules in the Gulf.
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