MAC Tailpaint is an easy to use paint system for detecting heat in dairy and beef cattle.

When to use Tail Paint
Immediately after calving or at least three weeks before breeding, tail paint can be used to identify cycles or pre-mating heats. During the time when cows should be mated to identify cows to be bred. After the cow has been bred. After the cow has been confirmed pregnant. Click to close this box

• Ideal for complete/custom marking program

• Research Proves MAC Tail Paint is More Accurate   MAC Tail Paint Chalk # Bred - based on rubbed product 200 100 # with low progesterone on day 0 and high progesterone on day 8* 176 75 Accuracy of heat detection 88% 75% Arun P. Phatak, DVM, Ph.D.: Results of Comparison of Tail Paint and Crayon Chalk as Aids to Heat Detection; 1999. Data on file at Universal Marketing Services *If day 0 shows low progesterone, this indicates the cow was possibly in heat. If at Day 8 progesterone is high, this indicates the cow has developed a corpus luteum and is cycling. Click to close this box

  Proven to be more effective than chalk, identifying nearly 90% of cows in heat

• How To Tail Paint

  Apply a 2" wide by 6" long strip along the ridge of the backbone right above the tail. Make sure you do not apply too much. Spray or paint against the lay of the hair for the first coat, then with the hair for the second coat. Check the paint strip at each milking. In 90% of cases, most of the paint will be rubbed off or clearly ruffled when a cow is in heat. Paint is rarely removed by occasional mounting of cows when not in heat. Cows detected in heat and then inseminated should not be repainted until the following milking. Use a different color when repainting inseminated cows. Open cows are then easier to identify. Tailpaint will last up to four weeks unless that coat hair becomes loose which can happen. Touchups with bottle or aerosol tailpaint are required if this happens. Click to close this box

  Easy to use aerosol application makes management quicker, simpler and cheaper
• Several uses
• Provides great coverage and lasts 14-28 days
• Does not require constant touch-up
• Rarely removed by indiscriminate mounting of non-estrus cows
• Easy to recognize in four bright colors; red, blue, green, orange
• Oil based waterproof colors make identification simple in all weather conditions
• Over 70 marks per container

Price
1/2 liter aerosol can: $13.00
UM3651 Red
UM3652 Blue
UM3653 Green
UM3654 Orange


MAC Tailpaint is manufactured by Arandee Industries, LTD, Auckland, New Zealand.