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Age Verification - Creating Birth Date Certificates

 
 
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 Print off this page for easy reference before starting the process.

To create Birth Date Certificates, you require one of the following:

  • Transaction ID numbers from your calf birth date submissions,
  • Individual animal tag numbers
  • Ranges of consecutive tag numbers
Note: It will take a minimum of 15 minutes from the time the calf birth age data is submitted and received by CCIA to when a birth date certificate can be generated.

Start, the Internet explorer (left click the blue "e" near the Start button at the bottom left of the screen). In the address bar (the white box near the top of the page starting with http://), remove all the text and

1)Type www.clia.livestockid.ca to access the CCIA (Canadian Cattle Identification Agency) website.
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2)The "Welcome to the CCIA Web Site" screen appears.
  • Click on Option 1 "Already have an account (click here to login)".
  • Place the cursor on the blue text and left click the mouse button to obtain the next screen.
3)The User Login screen appears.
  • Type in your user name and password that were created at the producer registration step..
4)The Welcome Back screen appears.
  • On the brown header bar near the top of the page (under the word tracking) left click the mouse on "Reports".
  • A drop down menu appears under reports, left click the mouse on "Create Certificate". .
5)The Select Certificate Type screen appears.
  • In the middle of the page in the Certificate selection box, left click on the circle left of "Birth Date Certificate".
  • Left click on the next box in the lower right corner..
6)The Create Birth Date Certificate data entry page appears.
  • You can only use one of the four options for data entry, otherwise the data will not be saved. Enter data by:
    • by individual tag number
    • by tag range; entering the first and last tag numbers in sequence
    • by tag range; entering the first tag number and indicating how many tags are in the sequence
    • Transaction ID number created when calf records were submitted to CCIA. Letters in the ID must be entered as capital or upper case. Lower case letters will cause a rejection of the information.
  • If you require a certificate for an individual animal, enter the tag number into the "Tag" row under the brown line.
    1. “left click” on “Add tags to list
    2. left click” on “next
    3. Continue with step 7.
  • When you have entered a series of numbers, or multiple series, transaction ID number or numerous transactions, left click on “Add tags to list” Before attempting to add a second animal, second series, or second transaction ID number. Having more than one data area filled in will cause rejection of all the information.
  • Continue left clicking on “Add tags to list” until all the required animals have been entered.
  • Left click on the “next” box.
Now you are ready to generate the certificate.
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7)The Create Birth Certificate screen appears.
  • If the information is correct, click on the "Yes, create birth certificate".
8)The Birth Date Certificate screen appears.
  • In the middle of the screen left click on the "Latest Date Birth Certificate" number..
9)A CCIA birth certificate appears.
  • Print this page for your records.
Attach the birth certificate to the livestock manifest so it is available to the Auction Market and purchaser of the cattle.

If you have questions or problems, contact CCIA at 877-909-2333. If in Alberta, call 310-3276 and ask for Sarah.

This completes the process to generate birth certificates.

Other References
Age Verification Information

Prepared by Barry Yaremcio, Beef/Forage Specialist, Ag-Info Centre, Agriculture and Rural Development

 
 
 
 

Other Documents in the Series

 
  Age Verification Information - Everything You Need to Age Verify Your Calves & Register a Farm Premise
Age Verification - 3rd Parties Available to Assist with Process
Premise Identification - On the CCIA Website
Age Verification - Obtaining Your Source Account Number
Age Verification - Registering Calves Using the CCIA Excel Spreadsheet
Age Verification - Confirming Data Capture on the CCIA Database
Age Verification - Creating Birth Date Certificates - Current Document
Age Verification - Cross Referencing Tag Numbers Using the Excel Spreadsheet
Age Verification - Retiring Tag Numbers Using the Excel Spreadsheet
Age Verification - CCIA Mobile Field Representatives Help With Age Verification and Premises Identification
Age Verification - "First Time" Activation of your CCIA Account
 
 
 
 
For more information about the content of this document, contact Barry Yaremcio.
This document is maintained by Brenda McLellan.
This information published to the web on August 24, 2006.
Last Reviewed/Revised on June 5, 2008.