I think the biggest thing here is that this lets them vastly enlarge a secure government jobs program for liberals; a million more clerks and inspectors and managers, all drawing government paychecks and voting Democrat.
As for doing any good, the costs will vastly outweigh any benefits.
I have hobby farmed off and on over the years. Chickens running around loose have often presented me with a surprise batch of babies. There were always 20 or 30 half grown ones running around the farm lots and sheds all summer. They are good for cleaning up spilled grain from hog and cattle feeding and a few chickens running loose on a farm can help keep rat and mice levels down.
Now it looks like I could be fined if I don’t catch, number and report each one.
Sometimes predators, a hawk or fox, skunk or weasel, would snatch one and I would never even know it happened, yet I am supposed to report each death?
A coyote hauls off a young lamb in a flock of hundreds and I am supposed to know about it and report it? Farm animals, especially young ones, disappear all the time and often farmers have only a vague idea when and only a guess at what happened to them.
A small loss of livestock is normal and just part of farming.
Keeping single animal registration of every animal on a farm of commercial grade livestock is preposterous and absolutely unmanageable.
High value pedigreed stock or a prize horse or hobby lama would be different, but commercial grade hogs and sheep and chickens? Forget it.
We have to differ here just a bit. Your concerns are all correct, but speaking as the owner of 3 sport horses that compete all over the US and who often leave the farm for training, shows, etc, or just to hack out across neighboring farms, the paperwork necessary to just go on a one hour hack across 14 other farms would be prohibitive, expensive, and just lead to noncompliance because of the onerous nature.
The government is deep in the process of facilitating a fascist state.
I think you’ve captured well the craziness of this boondoggle.