Ear tag be deferred to some later date. Pigs, cattle and sheep are frequently earmarked with pliers that notch registered owner and/or age marks into the ear. Mares on large horse breeding farms have a plastic tag attached to a neck strap for identification; which preserves their ears free of notches. Dairy cows are sometimes identified with ratchet fastened plastic anklets fitted on the pastern for ready inspection during milking; however NLIS requirements apply to cattle - including both dairy and beef animals. More commonly coloured electrical tape is used as short term ankle identifiers for dairy animals to identify when one
Jimmy Smits opposite Christine Lahti, Annie Potts, and Ken Stott in the critically lauded Broadway play "God of Carnage", replacing Jeff Daniels. In December 2012 through March 2013, he appeared in Chicago in "The Motherfucker with the Hat", at Steppenwolf Theatre Company. Smits was married to high school sweetheart, Barbara Smits, from 1981 until 1987. They have two children, Taina (born in 1973) and Joaquin (born in 1983). Taina Smits-Beasley (Jimmy Smits daughter) currently lives in Virginia and is a theatre arts teacher at Glasgow Middle School in Fairfax County, VA. Since 1986, he has been in a relationship with actress Wanda