Abstract: An animal syringe assembly having a direct bottle mount for receiving and retaining a liquid medicine bottle. In one embodiment, the syringe assembly includes a medicine syringe having a plunger extending from an end of an elongated shaft into a medicine dosage chamber. The shaft includes an interior axial conduit extending substantially therethrough which communicates with the medicine dosage chamber. A handle for actuating the medicine syringe includes a direct mount for receiving and retaining a liquid medicine bottle. The bottle mount provides direct fluid communication from the liquid medicine bottle to the interior axial conduit of the shaft of the medicine syringe. Vaccine is drawn into the medicine dosage chamber from the liquid medicine bottle through the interior axial conduit.

Abstract: A system and method applying an animal identification tag, wherein a unique identification code is automatically read from the identification tag and wherein, upon application of the tag to an animal, time/date information relating to the application is also automatically read.