4-H Premise ID registration won't be mandatory in Colorado

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4-H Premise ID registration won't be mandatory in Colorado
Care and housing form required instead
Premise identification registration for 4-H livestock projects in Colorado will not be mandatory by Oct. 1, as previously anticipated, but instead a care and housing form will be required.

That decision came out of a Sept. 19 meeting where 4-H Youth Development Coordinator Jeff Goodwin received a recommendation from a board of advisors not to make premise identification registration with the National Animal Identification System mandatory for 4-H livestock projects.

Instead, 4-Hers raising livestock must have a signed and approved "Animal Care and Housing Form for Colorado 4-H Livestock Projects on file at their county extension office," according to a press release.

The deadline for registration of Colorado 4-H livestock with an extension office is still Oct. 1.

The information from 4-H members about their livestock will not be submitted to the NAIS, said Kurt Jones, the Colorado State University Extension director for Chaffee and Park counties.

"It will be kept locked in a filing cabinet," he said.

Goodwin had been traveling around Colorado to get input about the possible registration requirement from people involved with 4-H.

The NAIS is sponsoring Premise ID, a U.S. Department of Agriculture initiative. All farms and ranches enrolled in Premise ID would be entered into a system that monitors livestock for diseases.

Jones said he doubts the issue of mandatory registration for 4-H livestock projects will be brought up again.

The Flume reported in its July 13 edition that the policy of mandatory Premise ID registration was adopted earlier in 2007 by Goodwin and CSU's Cooperative Extension Service Interim Director Mark Johnson. In July, only Colorado and one other state planned to require premise identification registration from 4-Hers. The anticipated mandate raised the ire of a number of parents, and many 4-Hers in the livestock progam in Park County anticipated leaving 4-H as a result.

Even though Premise ID registration will not be mandatory under the Sept. 19 decision, the CSU Extension office strongly recommends that participants register their animals with the NAIS.

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