Herdmark Biometric identity register
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Step 1 of 8 · The register

Registry overview

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Today a farmer's herd exists as ear tags and a spreadsheet, and every party with money at risk — insurer, bank, buyer, state vet — keeps their own copy and hopes it agrees with the others. This is one register of the animal itself, that all of them read from.

Animals in the register
51
showing 6 (species filter applied)
Gallery size
88
biometric templates searched on every 1:N query
Cattle
0
B. taurus and B. indicus
Cape buffalo
6
the high-value, disease-certified case
Embedder
DINOv2
Real DINOv2 weights loaded

Gallery size is displayed everywhere a score is, deliberately. A match rate against 88 animals and a match rate against two million are not the same claim, and quoting the first as if it were the second is the most common way biometric accuracy gets misrepresented.

Species All species Cattle — Bos taurus Cattle — Bos indicus Cape buffalo — Syncerus caffer

Registered animals

Every row is an animal, not a tag. The tag is one attribute among many and can be cut off; the biometric template cannot.

On a narrow screen the table scrolls sideways inside its own box — owner, holding and enrolment date are to the right. The page itself never scrolls sideways.

TagSpeciesBreedSex OwnerHoldingStatusAssurance TemplatesEnrolled
ZAF 00900040 Cape buffalo Cape buffalo (Addo/Kruger origin) Female Waterberg Buffalo Genetics (Pty) Ltd Waterberg Buffalo Project, Thabazimbi district Active Vet witnessed 0 2026-09-08
ZAF 00900039 Cape buffalo Cape buffalo (Addo/Kruger origin) Female Waterberg Buffalo Genetics (Pty) Ltd Waterberg Buffalo Project, Thabazimbi district Active Vet witnessed 0 2026-09-08
ZAF 00900038 Cape buffalo Cape buffalo (Addo/Kruger origin) Male Waterberg Buffalo Genetics (Pty) Ltd Waterberg Buffalo Project, Thabazimbi district Active Vet witnessed 0 2026-09-08
ZAF 00900037 Cape buffalo Cape buffalo (Addo/Kruger origin) Female Waterberg Buffalo Genetics (Pty) Ltd Waterberg Buffalo Project, Thabazimbi district Active Vet witnessed 0 2026-09-08
ZAF 00900036 Cape buffalo Cape buffalo (Addo/Kruger origin) Female Waterberg Buffalo Genetics (Pty) Ltd Waterberg Buffalo Project, Thabazimbi district Active Vet witnessed 0 2026-09-08
ZAF 00900035 Cape buffalo Cape buffalo (Addo/Kruger origin) Male Waterberg Buffalo Genetics (Pty) Ltd Waterberg Buffalo Project, Thabazimbi district Active Vet witnessed 0 2026-09-08

What assurance level means

Vet-witnessed — a registered veterinarian was physically present at capture. Accredited operator — an auction official or field agent whose accreditation is on file and revocable. Self-service — the farmer captured it alone. An insurer can price these differently, and if an operator's accreditation is later revoked, every animal they enrolled is one query away.