Animal Identification Requirements

Beef and Dairy Beef Steers

840-RFID Tag and 5-digit County Tag and DNA Hair Sample

Commericial and Market Heifers and Dairy Feeder

840-RFID Tag and 5-digit County Tag and DNA Hair Sample

Beef, Registered Heifers

840-RFID Tag and Tattoo and DNA Hair Sample

Dairy Cattle

840-RFID Tag and animal’s registered name and registration number (or dam’s registration number) and DNA Hair Sample

Dairy Goat Females, Registered Wethers

Breed Registry Tattoo 

Dairy Goat Wethers

5-digit County Tag or Tattoo

 Meat Goat Wethers (Including Myotonic)
840-RFID Tag and 5- Digit County Tag and DNA Hair Sample
Boer Goat Females, Registered (Including Myotonic)

Breed Registry Tattoo or Microchip that Matches Registration Papers and DNA Hair Samples

Market Goat Does (Wether Dams)

840-RFID Tag and 5- Digit County Tag And DNA Hair Sample

Pygmy Goats, Registered

Breed Registry Tattoo or Microchip that Matches Registration Papers

Pygmy Goats, Unregistered

Official USDA Scrapie Tag or Official Scrapie Tattoo

Horse and Pony

Two Color Pictures

Llama and Alpaca

Two Color Pictures

Sheep Market Lambs and wether Dams

840-RFID Tag and 5- Digit County Tag and DNA Hair Sample

Sheep Commercial Ewes

840-RFID Tag and 5- Digit County Tag/or Official Scrapies Tag and DNA Hair Sample

Sheep Registered Ewes

840-RFID Tag and ID that matches registration Papers and DNA Hair Sample

Swine

840-RFID Tag and 5- Digit County Tag and DNA Hair Sample

 

Indiana 4-H Animal Identification
Beef and Dairy Beef Steers

840-RFID Tag and 5-digit County Tag

Dairy Feeder

840-RFID Tag and 5-digit County Tag

Beef, Registered Heifers

840-RFID Tag, Tattoo, and matching registration papers

Dairy Cattle

840-RFID Tag and animal’s registered name and registration number (or dam’s registration number)

Dairy Goat Females, Registered Wethers

Breed Registry Tattoo 

Dairy Goat Wethers

5-digit County Tag or Tattoo

Meat Goat Wethers (Including Myotonic)
840-RFID Tag and 5- Digit County Tag
Boer Goat Females, Registered (Including Myotonic)

Breed Registry Tattoo or Microchip that Matches Registration Papers

Market Goat Does (Wether Dams)

840-RFID Tag and 5- Digit County Tag

Pygmy Goats, Registered

Breed Registry Tattoo or Microchip that Matches Registration Papers

Pygmy Goats, Unregistered

Official USDA Scrapie Tag or Official Scrapie Tattoo

Horse and Pony

Two Color Pictures

Llama and Alpaca

Two Color Pictures

Sheep Market Lambs

840-RFID Tag and 5- Digit County Tag

Sheep Commercial Ewes

840-RFID Tag and 5- Digit County Tag/or Official Scrapies Tag

Sheep Registered Ewes

840-RFID Tag and ID that matches registration Papers

Swine

840-RFID Tag and 5- Digit County Tag

Beef Prospects

840-RFID Tag

Commercial Heifer

840-RFID Tag

Market Heifer/Steers

840-RFID Tag and 5- Digit County Tag

(Registered steers will need tattoos)

Rabbit

Tattoo