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Braunvieh Registration Updates By Heather Lange, Director of Office Operations, Registrations and DNA

In addition to recent rule changes come a few adjustments to rules regarding registrations. You, as an active member, have two methods of registering your animals – online through the DigitalBeef registry or by filling out a registration applica- tion to be sent into the Braunvieh office to be processed manually. In an effort to encourage using the on- line registry, any work (registration or transfer) sent into the office to be done manually will incur a $5-per- animal manual entry fee.

your Braunvieh females and can be assessed just the same, which gets you the discounted registration fees on the Beef Builder calves out of them. The difference with them, however, is if they are not bred to have a Braunvieh calf for that assessment year, you can give them a code (non-Braunvieh cow inac- tive in herd), which will hold them over until the next year’s assessment. That way you don’t have to pay for them for that calendar year. If you have an animal that is registered with another breed and you want to use this animal to register a Beef Builder calf, just call

Photo from Tri C Cattle, LLC, Houston, Texas

Next, let’s briefly go over the use of commercial animals. It has come to our attention that there were previously animals that anyone could use to register their calves out of – especially Beef Builder calves. According to our rules, whoever owns the dam at the time of calving is who needs to register the calf. Those animals previously used didn’t have an owner listed, and some of them had hundreds of progeny recorded – not just embryo transfer (ET) calves. This activity has been put to rest. If you need to regis- ter a Beef Builder calf, you are responsible for creating a new commercial animal in your own account for the calf to be registered to. As far as Total Herd Reporting (THR) fees go, commercial cows show up in your inventory alongside

or email the office. We need to put these in the database for you, and we need a registration number for that animal from its respective breed to do so. Moving on to registration updates, all Braunvieh As- sociation of America (BAA) members are required to have a herd code (or herd prefix) that is no longer than four char- acters – letters, numbers or a combination of the two. This code must be unique for each breeder, the exception being family accounts, which can use the same prefix. This code also must be tattooed in one ear of the animal – it can be left or right (board recommends, but doesn’t mandate, the

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