I was informed by my neighbor that all property in Texas that has any livestock on it will have to be registered with the T.A.H.C. no later than July 6, 2006 or the owner will be fined. I thaught he was full of it so I went to the website, and its true. To make it worse, you have to pay a fee to register the property every two years...so now Im gettin a little pissed and I go on and read that the next step is the animal ID law, which requires me to have an electronic chip in any cow, horse, chicken, pig, goat, turkey, that enters or leaves my property. While I believe that source verification is good for the cow market, I sure feel big brother breathen down my neck. I have not heard yet who is going to pay for all these damn computer chips. Sorry for the tone of this post but I feel like all the values that this great state were founded on, like individulism, work hard and make your own way, and dont tread on me or my private property, gone down the tubes.