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4. You will need the tattoo number of your animal. Instructions for tattoo requirements are available on the Registering Cattle page. 5. The easiest and quickest way to send in your regis tration to AAA is to use the online form on the Registering Cattle page. Be sure to fill out the form completely or it may drop into a black hole, never to be seen again! Don’t miss the areas where you upload the Geneseek DNA re port and type in the barcode of the animal you are regis tering. Once you have completed your form, be sure that you receive an email report from the AAA. That is the only proof you have that you completed the registration form. Also, be sure to pay with your credit card after you submit the registration. If you have any questions, give me a call at (512) 627-5443. Registering percentage cattle is usually much easier. You will still need AI certificates or Natural Service State ments if you do not own the bull, but most of the time DNA is not required. Western Aberdeen Breeders Association BY DAVID SHOCKEY, VICE PRESIDENT The Western Aberdeen Breeders Association (WABA) is preparing for a busy spring and summer. April 5, 2018, is the Midland Bull Test Sale for Aberdeen bulls. Forty-two Aberdeen bulls have been on an efficiency feed test and will be ultra-sounded and undergo a bull soundness evalu ation before the sale. These bulls will just need cows to start contributing to your herd. Updates can be found at www.midlandbulltest.com .

page on the American Aberdeen Association website, www.americanaberdeen.com, and review the instructions. If you want to register a previously unregistered full blood, you will need the following items to do so. 1. A DNA report from Geneseek. This requires that ei ther a blood sample or tail hair sample from your fullblood be sent to them for verification of the sire and dam. If the animal is fewer than six months old, a blood sample is required. Anything older will require a tail hair sample. The address and phone numbers are listed on the Register ing Cattle page. You will need to order a DNA sample kit and then submit it to Geneseek. The barcode on the DNA sample kit is important; it is the permanent record of your animal at Geneseek. There’s no point in sending anything to AAA until this is report is in your possession. I recom mend that you have the report sent to you by email. That will make it much easier to submit to AAA. It may take a month to get the form back from Geneseek. 2. If you do not own the sire of the animal you need to register, you will need a Natural Service Statement from the sire’s owner or an AI certificate for that bull. The owner may require that you pay a fee for those statements or certificates. If you purchased a registered bred cow, and the sire of your new calf was owned by the seller, he should have indicated that on the registration paper when the bred cow was transferred to you. In that case, you will not need any additional forms. 3. If you are registering an embryo calf, you will need to have what is called an “embryo recovery certificate.” Whoever sold you the calf or the embryo should furnish that for you.

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