Tagging your animals

You must tag cattle and deer within 180 days of their birth or before their first off-farm movement, whichever comes first.

Find out which NAIT tags to buy and where to order them.

Every NAIT tag has a unique RFID number that identifies an individual animal. Find out how to read or scan tags so it's easier to keep your NAIT account up to date.

Using an RFID scanner or reader can be an efficient way to keep your NAIT account up to date, but you need to choose one that suits your farming situation.

If your cattle or deer lose their tag, damage it, or arrive at your farm without one, you need to tag and register them again.

Unless they have a dairy participant code printed on them, NAIT tags can't be assigned to, or shared with another NAIT location.

We encourage you to report issues with NAIT RFID tags to us.