Ideas for Storm Prep

[HomesteaderWife]

Hi all sorry to not know exactly where to put this. Tomorrow we are expecting horrible weather and I am trying my best to prep the goats as I can. My main concern is if we get tornado and the goats go missing or get out of the barn, I know I cannot stop predatory issues, but I need a way to try and put identification on the goats. We have collars but they don't have a flat surface to write our number on there. I do not have any tags. I took fresh photos of everyone for reference. Does anyone else have tips? I won't be able to travel to get anything but trying to work with what I have for their benefit. Any tips from someone who has faced handling goats with tornado risk? Thanks everyone

 

[Baymule]

Magic marker in their ear?
Zip lock bag with contact info, wrapped around collar and lots of tape.
Got paint? Paint your phone number on them.
Plastic Clorox bottle, cut up for tags.

 

[HomesteaderWife]

@Baymule thank you for these I wondered if marker or paint was safe I was thinking of these any experience using them? I could do both. I would use the ziploc bag but our older male goat likes biting things off of others

 

[Baymule]

No, never used them, but I attached tags to my horses halters when hurricanes were coming in. I saw people use spray paint on the sides of horses and cattle.

 

[HomesteaderWife]

Okay the plastic bottle for tags I will dig something up. I may also write in the ear and clean it out afterwards. Just a bit worried as we haven't had this kind of threat in years and doing what we can to prepare. Thanks for any help folks thank you Baymule

 

[Ridgetop]

Definitely use Magic Marker in the ears. We tattooed our dairy goats and tagged our Boers. You can write their names and yur phone number in both ears. No need to clean it off later since it will wear off. Use alcohol to clean the inside of the ears first since goats and sheep have somewhat greasy skin and the marker will not adhere to greasy surface. You can also use paint to put your phone number on their sides. Just use a 1" brush and latex paint. The latex paint wil eventually wash off, so if you want it more permanent use oil. The paint won't hurt them either. We paint brand our Dorper sheep for sorting and it wears off later.

Hope the tornado misses you.

 

[HomesteaderWife]

So here is the game plan update: - Will look for paint, have a marker and alcohol to put number in the ears, found some old plastic yogurt container lids and I have cut them, hole punched, and sharpie wrote our number on them to attach to collar as temp tags. I can't recall if I said this but I did take fresh photos of everyone with their collars on and emailed them to myself. Haven't recalled seeing warnings this strong in a long time so we are just trying to do what we can to prep. Thanks for the well wishes all. Particularly Dangerous Situation Tornado Watch just issued East of us. We expect to start really getting the weather after 6 PM so just please keep everyone in the line of these storms in your thoughts. Thank you for all the helpful advice