Identification of farm animals is a procedure for registering animals that includes assigning an individual number to animals by using products (tools) for identification, including information about the farm animal in the database for identification of farm animals and issuing a veterinary passport.

An individual number is assigned depending on the type of farm animal, using one of the following methods:

1) tagging (for cattle, small cattle, camels, marals, pigs and piglets not slaughtered until the age of nine months, kept in agricultural enterprises, peasant and farm farms intended for industrial cultivation and fattening);

2) tarenting (from the age of four months) or chipping (after seven days from the date of birth) (for horses and monocopters);

3) tattoo (for piglets kept in agricultural enterprises, farms and farms, and intended for industrial cultivation, fattening with subsequent slaughter until the age of nine months).

Additionally, for all types of farm animals, you can assign an individual number in the following ways:

electronic identification method (tags with a radio frequency tag, boluses, chips, other products (means) used for identification of farm animals);

tattoo;

approval.