Montgomery County 4-HValidation Orders – FFA Chapters
-Order deadlines are earlier this year than previously! Make sure to mark these on your calendars.
Each species has a separate google order form.
Place your orders for all tags through the correct form. A confirmation email showing your exact order will be sent to the email used.
If you have already placed an order and need to add tags, submit another order for what you need to add. You can add tags, but cannot remove any already ordered.
**Your Chapter will be responsible for what is ordered through your online form, no exceptions**
Filtering through emails requesting to add/remove/change your order can become quite time consuming.
If something should be missed based off of an “I sent you an email” you are responsible for what your online submitted order reflects.
**If you have an outstanding validation order balance, you are not eligible to order tags for your Chapter.
Heifer Validation
Order Forms: HEIFERS
$27.00
initial orders due by: 3/30/23
$30.00 per tag
Late Orders: any order placed 3/31/ – 6/01/2023
*IMPORTANT CHANGE
Heifers will be charged based on the number of tags ordered.
Heifers will be tagged similar to steers starting with the Spring/Summer 2023 validations. UIN’s will no longer be used.
Validation:
Date: 6/19/2023 Time: Location: Montgomery County Fairgrounds
a Sign-Up genius link will be sent prior to validation for sign up times.
If you have not validated your heifer before, or if the heifer has been validated but has changed ownership, registration papers must be in the exhibitor’s name.
If a heifer has been validation previously, unless something on her registration papers has changed, she is validated for her show career and does not need to be re-validated.
Sheep & Goat Validation
Order Forms:
Validation:
Date: 6/23/2023 Time: Location: Montgomery County Fairgrounds
a Sign-Up genius link will be sent prior to validation for sign up times.
Any member who would like to show a lamb or goat at the Major shows must complete the validation process, including ordering tags and coming to validation. TLBA tags must be in lambs Ears before it can be marked on the validation form.
**State Fair of Texas Validation requirement changes –
State Fair will be requiring validation for registered breeding sheep, registered breeding goats, wether/commercial dams, and wether/commercial does.
**Breeding Sheep and Breeding Goat Validation program changes –
TX Lamb and Goat Validation will be offering a “Roll-Over Breeding Sheep and breeding Goat Program”
What does this impact? registered breeding sheep, registered breeding goats, wether/commercial dams, and wether/commercial does ONLY
Who does this NOT impact? market lambs and market goats
What does this mean? Beginning June 1, 2021, registered breeding sheep, registered breeding goats, wether/commercial dams, and wether/commercial does will have 3 total years of eligibility UNLESS A CHANGE OF OWNERSHIP TAKES PLACE. This will be offered during major show validation as well.
Put plainly – if you validate for State Fair during the June 2021 validation period, your validation will be eligible until June 2024, unless a change of ownership occurs during that time, then you must re-validate. If you validate during the October 2021 validation period for major shows, your validation will be eligible until October 2021, unless a change of ownership occurs during that time, then you must re-validate.
Swine Validation
Order Form: SWINE
Validation:
Date: 6/26/2023 Time: Location: Montgomery County Fairgrounds
a Sign-Up genius link will be sent prior to validation for sign up times.
Any member who would like to show a pig at the State Fair of Texas must first complete the validation process, including ordering tags, coming to validation, and attending Fall show entry day.
Swine Classification Guidelines
Steer Validation
Order Form: STEER
*this is the only steer validation until Summer 2024
Validation:
Date: 6/26/2023 Time: Location: Montgomery County Fairgrounds
a Sign-Up genius link will be sent prior to validation for sign up times.
Any member who would like to show a Steer at any of the Major Shows must first complete the validation process, including ordering tags and coming to validation.
This is the only major show steer validation for the 2022 Fall and 2023 Spring major shows.
Steer Validation Change:
Texas Youth Livestock and Agriculture will be eliminating steer nose prints for the 2021-2022 steer validation season. This change is a positive step in the directions of enhanced accuracy and efficiency for steer validation. This change has been vetted and approved by the TCAAA Animal Industries Committee, the ATAT Major Livestock Show Advisory Committee, and our major livestock show partners.
The exclusion of nose prints from the validation process will allow for more in-depth and exact information related to confirming steer identity by relying largely on DNA tests. In previous years, we have run DNA comparisons on about 150-160 steers per year. Our current plan is to increase this testing volume to about 430 DNA comparisons each year. This more-than-double increase will allow for a more precise comparison for steer validation. Efficiency will also be increased at the time of validation as you all will not have to do the sometimes tedious and time-consuming process of taking nose prints. Due to increased DNA comparisons and associated costs, the price of steer validation will increase
*this page is for FFA Ag Teacher orders only!
If you are a 4-H member any forms or information on this page is not for your use.