Register livestock

If your animals get out, this helps a deputy return them to you quickly instead of holding them as an estray. Registering takes a few minutes and costs nothing.

About you

So a deputy can reach you when an animal is found.

Full name

Phone

A number answered at short notice.

Used to send you a link to manage this registration.

Mailing address (optional)

Where the animals are kept

The property they are normally on, which may not be your mailing address.

Property address

City

County

Nearest crossroads or landmark (optional)

Helpful for rural property that is hard to find by address alone.

Exact location (optional, but very helpful)

If you are at the property now, this pins the spot a deputy should drive to — a gate rather than a mailbox.

Latitude

Longitude

The animals

Add each animal you want on the register.

Animal 1

Species

Sex

Breed (optional)

Approximate age (optional)

Colour and markings

For example: black body, white face, white switch on the tail.

Name or description (optional)

Ear tag (optional)

Microchip (optional)

RFID (optional)

Photographs (optional)

Up to 4 photographs. A picture identifies an animal far better than any description.

Brand (optional)

If these animals carry a brand, describing it helps enormously.

County Clerk brand number

If your brand is recorded with the Clerk, enter that number.

Location on the animal

Describe the brand

For example: Lazy J over a bar.

This is not the official brand registry. This is the Sheriff's Office supplementary registry, used to help reunite stray livestock with their owners. Registering here has no legal effect on ownership and does not record your mark or brand.

Official marks and brands are recorded by the Ellis County Clerk under Texas Agriculture Code ch. 144 (Marks and Brands), Sec. 144.041 (Recording of Marks and Brands). To record a brand you must register with the County Clerk in person or by mail.

Ellis County Clerk

Information in this registry is self-reported by the public and is not verified by the Ellis County Sheriff's Office.

Who can see this

Nothing you enter is published. There is no public directory of registrations and no way to browse them.

Your contact details and the premises address are encrypted, and are read only when a deputy is working a stray.

You can change or remove this registration at any time.