Animal Identification Guidelines
Method of Identification
Project Area
ID #
County Fair
State Fair
Market Beef
4-H Tag
Breeding Beef
Tattoo
4-H Ear tag & DNA
Sample
Tattoo
Feeder Calves
4-H Tag
No Class
Bucket Calf
4-H Tag
Meat Goat
4-H Tag
No Class
4-H Tag &
DNA Sample
ID Form
Ak-Sar-Ben**
4-H Ear tag & DNA
Sample
Tattoo
4-H Tag & DNA
Sample
No Class
4-H Tag &
DNA Sample
Show Entry Deadline
ID/DNA
(Revised 1/15)
Due* to
County
Fair
State
Fair Ak-Sar-Ben Ext.
Due
to
Ext.
Due
ONLINE
Due ONLINE
Office
(Except Horse & Dairy) (Except Horse & Dairy)
Office
10
4HF106
April 15
July 10
April 15
April 15
N/A
4HF105
June 15
July 10
June 15
June 15
20
4HF110
June 15
July 10
No Class
June 15
N/A
4HF110
June 15
July 10
No Class
No Class
20
4HF111
June 15
July 10
June 15
June 15
4-H Commercial tag –
No Class
Pink, reg. tag or tattoo
N/A
4HF105
June 15
July 10
June 15
No Class
No Class
Drawing or photo
No Class
Drawing or photo
N/A
N/A
4HF109
4HF108
June 15
June 15
July 10
July 10
No Class
August 4
F2-97-77
June 15
July 10
Dairy Goats
Dairy Cattle
4-H Commercial tag –
Pink, reg. tag or
tattoo
Drawing or photo
Drawing or photo
Horse
Drawing or photo
Drawing or photo
Drawing or photo
Broiler Contest
Poultry Breeding
& Production
Rabbit
Order by April 1
No Class
Order by July 1
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
No Class
August 10
May 15- ID’s &
Entries Due to
Extension Office
No Class
N/A
N/A
No Class
N/A
N/A
N/A
July 10
August 10
No Class
Tattoo
4-H Commercial tag Pink, registration tag
OR tattoo
Tattoo
4-H Commercial tag Pink, registration tag
OR tattoo
4-H Tag &
DNA Sample
Ear Notches & DNA
Sample
Tattoo
N/A
4HF103
June 15
July 10
August 10
August 4
No Class
N/A
4HF105
June 15
July 10
June 15
No Class
20
4HF106
June 15
July 10
June 15
June 15
40
4HF107
June 15
July 10
June 15
June 15
Breeding Meat
Goat
Breeding Sheep
Market Lambs
4-H Tag
Market Swine
***4-H Ear tag
or Ear Notches
4-H Tag &
DNA Sample
Ear Notches & DNA
Sample
August 4
August 4
**For more information regarding the Ak-Sar-Ben Livestock Exposition, please refer to: www.aksarben.org/4-H/index.htm
*** 4-H Ear tags may be an acceptable method of identification for swine showing at the County fair level only. Check with your county staff for requirements for
your county fair. Fresh ear notches will be reason for disqualification at State Fair.
Extension is a Division of the Institute of Agriculture and Natural Resources at the University of Nebraska–Lincoln
cooperating with the Counties and the United States Department of Agriculture.
The 4-H Youth Development program abides with the nondiscrimination policies
of the University of Nebraska–Lincoln and the United States Department of Agriculture.