2023-2024 Validation Information Steers & Heifers
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Steer & Heifer Validation Information
If you have a conflict
please contact Emily ASAP as due to several other 4-H and Extension activities
she has limited availability in June to do alternative validations!
Steer & Heifer validation is approaching very soon, and we just wanted to let you know about some important things to consider prior to bringing your cattle to validation. Please note that any animal that you are planning to show this fall or next spring (2024 Gillespie County Youth Livestock show or Texas Majors) MUST be validated. At validation, a tag will be placed in your animal’s ear, hair will be taken for DNA. Please note that this does not enter your animals into a stock show; this is only the validation process. We will notify you of all these deadlines for entry as soon as we can – please make sure to check the master 4-H calendar for all deadlines!
Important Things to
Know About Steer & Heifer Validation
- A Parent Must be Present to sign
validation paperwork – the youth exhibitor is not required to be present,
but a parent is required.
- You don’t need to bring any
information with you to validation unless you have a heifer. You do
not need to bring Quality Counts numbers or social security numbers to
validation; this information will be required for stock show
entries.
- Gillespie County Youth Livestock
Show Animals – all steers and heifers that will be shown at the
Gillespie County Youth Livestock Show must be validated.
- Ethics policy –
each exhibitor and parent will be required to sign an ethics policy.
The address that goes on the ethics policy needs to be the address
where the animals are fed and cared for. Please make sure that
you know what this address is before arriving at validation.
There are a lot of words on the ethics policies, so if you would like to
read it ahead of time before signing, we have attached one to this
email. *PLEASE note in the ethics policy “all state validated
livestock should be housed at the home of the livestock exhibitor or a
family member or at a county or school ag facility” If livestock is housed
at a different location families will need to complete alternative housing
documentation which must be approved by the county state validation committee. The link to access the Ethics policy forms is at the bottom of the page
- Email Address –
you will be asked to provide a validation email address on your family’s
validation form. Please check the automated emails that you will
receive from the Texas Livestock Validation system to make sure that all
information has been entered correctly. You will receive an email
within 5-10 days of the validation date.
- Extra tags – we
have a limited number of extra steer & heifer tags in our county; if
you want an extra tag, we encourage you to contact the office ASAP.
- Registration Certificates - If you have a heifer, we are required to upload each registration certificate, so you can either email certificates to tiffany.ahrens@ag.tamu.edu or bring them to the Extension Office. NOTE: Both sides of the registration papers should be scanned and emailed.
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