How To Register A Dairy Goat

Grade and experimental are covered in another section.

How to register a dairy goat. A good breeder has records for every animal and will also show the performance of the animals in the herd. Ags does not offer any single breed licenses. The parents of the animal for which registration application is being made must be registered as american or purebred with one or more of the following associations. Many people are confused by all the different symbols abbreviations and letters on the pedigree of a dairy goat. The following instructions are to be used while filling out the adga registration or recordation application form.

Most common registration mistakes 1 all items are not completed. American dairy goat association american goat society nigerian dwarf goat association or the canadian goat society. Once this is all done you have a tattooed goat ready to be registered. Write down all of your kidding dates offspring details and tattoo numbers in your goat management binder. Dairy goat identification.

When you received the new ags registration papers in your name send the new originalags certificate to adga with the appropriate fees. Before buying a dairy goat you should have decided what breed you want and a breed that fits your milk production goals. How to understand the b m ch etc. The most trusted dairy goat registry since 1904. In addition to preserving pedigrees maintaining herd books and sanctioning dairy goat shows the american dairy goat association has performance programs.

Dairy goat judging techniques 1978 how to become an american goat society ags judge ags offers a license to judge all breeds it registers. Ask the breeders reputation from several people before purchasing the dairy goats from him her. Last but not least a good dairy goat judge should have a true desire to help in some way in the breeding of better dairy goats. Most all of them are awards and other accomplishments that the goats have so it is good to understand them. Well if you are planning on registering your goat with the adga american dairy goat association it might be a bit harder than you think the american goat society ags has rules of it s own but adga s policies for naming your dairy goat are a bit more strict so those are the ones we are going to discuss.

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