Learn more about the Texas 4-H/FFA Livestock Validation

Grayson County 4-H will be submitting validation tag orders for 2024 Major Shows and the Texoma Exposition and Livestock Show. This includes new heifers, and for swine, goat, and lamb which were not validated in June of 2023. See the information below:

Goat and Lamb Tag Ordering – All Major Show and the Texoma Exposition and Livestock Show (county stock show)

• Orders Open: August 1st
  
• Last day for REGULAR Tag Orders: August 25th
  
• Last day for LATE Tag Orders: August 26th
• Validation fee for Goat and Lamb
  • $20 per head August 1st – August 25th
    
  • $25 per head August 26th – October 20th

*NEW FOR 2023* Lambs and goats validated during the 2023 State Fair Validation Period WILL BE ELIGIBLE for 2024 Spring Major Shows.

• Market animals validated for the 2023 State Fair will carryover for 2024 Spring Major Shows.
• Once validated, the project MUST stay in the care of the exhibitor that project is validated to; if the exhibitor chooses to sell the project to a new exhibitor, the new exhibitor MUST REVALIDATE the project within the next validation period.

New Heifer Tag Ordering

• Orders Open: August 1st
• Last day for REGULAR Tag Orders: August 25th
• Last day for LATE Tag Orders: August 26th
  
• Validation fee for NEW Heifers
  • $25 per head August 1st – August 25th
    
  • $30 per head August 26th – October 20th
  • Payment due with tag orders

Deadline for validating all livestock will be October 31, 2023.

Swine Tag Ordering – Major Shows and Texoma Exposition and Livestock Show (county stock show)

• Orders Open: August 1st
• Last day for REGULAR Tag Orders: August 25th
• Last day for LATE Tag Orders: August 26th
  
• Validation fee for Swine
  • $20 per head August 1st – August 25th
  • $25 per head August 26th – November 15th
    

Deadline for validating all pigs will be November 30, 2023.

• • Purebred (registered gilts) must be validated. Date of ownership, transfer and registration must all be on or before June 30, 2023.
  • Purebred (registered gilts) must have registration papers uploaded into the validation system by July 15, 2023.
  • Crossbred gilts showing at the State Fair of Texas and Heart of Texas MUST be validated.
  • State Validation tags must be in the pigs ear when it enters the holding pens. This means tags cannot be in the hand or pocket. Any pig entering the holding pen without a tag will not be allowed to show

Roll-over Breeding Sheep and Breeding Goat program

Who 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 2023 validation period, your validation will be eligible until June 2026, unless a change of ownership occurs during that time- then you must re-validate. If you validate during the October 2023 validation period for major shows, your validation will be eligible until October 2026, unless a change of ownership occurs during that time- then you must re-validate.