4HOnline HelpSheet

Entering Market Beef Information into 4hOnline

Remember: ALL Market Beef, both for county and/or State Fair and/or Aksarben need to be entered into 4hOnline. There will be no 106 paper forms acceptable, only information taken from 4hOnline

  • Log in to 4hOnline, using your county account.
  • Click on the Animals tab at the top of the screen. Click on the Search icon if it is not already highlighted.If you see a record at the top of the screen, click “Remove Filter”.
  • In the full search screen, locate the first youth with an animal to be entered. You can use the Keywords field to find their name.
    (Note: if a youth is not showing up on that screen, their record is not active, so at that point, you will need to go back to the Enrollment tab, find them, and approve their enrollment.)
  • Click the Select button beside the youth’s name. There will probably be “zero” animals, but there could be some if the youth has self-identified other types of animals.
  • Select the Animal Type Beef, Market, and click Add Animal.
  • On the next page, you will see a screen print of the Market Beef data entry screen. Fields in bold are required.
  • ***Note: Be sure you check the Retinal Image box for State Fair and/or Aksarben eligibility if appropriate
  • Type in the weigh-in date in the format shown, or use the pop-up calendar, being sure to select month & year first, then the date.
  • Enter the tag number as shown in the examples on the entry screen.
  • Depending on what type of ear tag your county uses, most will be the USDA-type tag with a format of JJM1234 for example. DO NOT enter the “42” in front of the USDA tag numbers. ONLY the 3 letters and 4 numbers.
  • If using the old-style type of tags, enter your county’s two-digit county code followed by the eartag number, with no spaces. Counties 1-9 will start this with a zero. Pottawattamie counties are the exception-they use 3-digit codes (178 for East Pott., 278 for West Pott.)
  • Select the correct option for tag color and ear, enter the beginning weight, select Male or Female for steers & heifers.
  • ***NOTE: Breed: Read the text at the top of the page. If no breed is filled in before Feb. 1, the animal will show as a crossbred at the state fair.*Crossbred is the default breed for each animal. Be sure if it’s a registered/purebred animal, the breed field is correct
  • Tattoo & Registration number:
  • These are optional fields, for county use. They aren’t used for market animals at the state fair,
  • But, if a weighed-in market heifer may show as a breeding heifer, she will need to have a tattoo—so record it if it’s available at weigh-in time along with the breed if it’s a registered animal
  • County Raised/Home Raised: These are for county fair use only as some have specific classes for these animals, making it easy to filter these in reports
  • When you’ve finished and checked this record, you can choose to Save (if there are no more animals for this member) or Save & Add Another (for the same member). If you Save and Add Another, the Retinal Image checkbox, Beginning Weight Date, Tag Color, Sex, and Weigh-in county will default in from the previous record. They can all be changed on each record, however.
  • Once you’ve saved, the member can log in to his record (logging in from the main screen as the family only, not logging in from your county account) and verify the information. While the animal is “pending” (saved but not verified), information can be changed by county managers. Once the record has been verified by the family/member, it’s locked and cannot be edited or changed by county managers.
  • If the family/member chooses not to verify the entry, it will still become locked on Feb. 1, and the information will be assumed to be correct. There will be no paper 106 forms at the state fair, so what’s in 4hOnline on Feb. 1 is the final record for this animal.
  • In the event that information HAS to legitimately be changed after verification or after Feb. 1, the county manager will need to notify the State 4-H Office, as that has to be done by a state admin account.

Other options:

Clicking “Animal List” below the member’s name brings up a pop-up list of all animals for that member, and a shortcut to add another.

Quick Reports: Animal – Information creates a PDF printout of the information that was entered about the animal.

Updated 2017