The following instructions are to exist used while filling out the ADGA Registration or Recordation Awarding form. You can obtain a Registration or Recordation Application form from ADGA.org/forms or you lot may create a login to ADGA's Next Generation Software and register your goat online.

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The following guide corresponds with the print and online ADGA Registration/Recordation Application.

Section 1: Nascency Information

Observe "Breeding Info" to the right of "Birth Information." Check the advisable box and include documentation if Service Memo, Bogus Insemination (AI) or Embryo Transfer (ET) are checked.

GOAT NAME. Name must be confined to 30 messages and spaces and must begin with the breeder's registered herd proper name, if any. Name cannot be changed in one case registered.

SIRE ID/Proper name. If the official ownership of the sire and that of the dam are not identical on the appointment of breeding, a service memo must be attached.

DAM ID/NAME. If person making application for registry purchased the dam as a bred doe, a service memo must be obtained from the owner of the sire and attached to the application. Dam must be officially transferred before kid may be registered.

Engagement OF Birth. Be sure the date given is the same as whatever other kids registered from the same litter.

Goat Sex activity. Signal the gender of the goat child.

LITTER INFORMATION. Record the number of kids of each sex in the birth.

Section 2: Appearance

Brood STANDARD CONFORMATION. Encounter the ADGA Guidebook rules for registering Purebred or American dairy goats and recordation of Grade dairy goats.

Color AND MARKINGS. Be accurate just make description as short as possible. For Toggenburg indicate shade of brown and color of correct white or foam markings. For Oberhasli betoken shade of bay and correct black markings. Sables may be any colour except solid white or solid low-cal cream.

GOAT HORNS. If the goat is built-in without horns, the term is "polled."

GOAT EARS. Correct ears are necessary for brood conformation.

Section 3: Identification

Fellow member/BIRTH Social club TATTOOS. Beast must be tattooed. If the application indicates a tattoo which is non really on the animal, the certificate of registry becomes voidable. Delight country on the application the tattoo exactly as it appears on the animal.

EID CHIP. An Electronic ID is approved every bit a supplemental ID nether specific circumstances. EID for animals built-in after March 11, 2015 must have the "840" style microchip.

Department 3b: Breeder

BREEDER. The "breeder" is the possessor of the fauna's dam on the date the animal was bred/conceived.

Section 4: Transfer

PURCHASER INFORMATION. This section is but used when the animal being registered is existence transferred to another owner. Do non employ this section unless you are transferring the animal to a new owner. The appropriate fee for transfer must be included or be on your account before your awarding is received.

Section 5: Payment & Signature

FEES. All fees are required to exist received with the application or already be on the business relationship of the 1 submitting the application. All fees are subject to modify without notice. For current rates see ADGA Rates & Services

SIGNATURE OF Applicant. Provide the name and fellow member ID of the person submitting this application.

PAYMENT. Delight add together funds to your account through the Next Generation Software, include a check payable to "ADGA" or call 828-286-3801 to take funds deposited to your account via Visa, Mastercard, Discover, or American Express.

Most Common Registration Mistakes

  1. All items are not completed.
  2. Color description is omitted.
  3. Nascence engagement does not coincide with convenance appointment (should be about five months for gestation period).
  4. Registration numbers of grandparents instead of parents are given.
  5. The registered tattoo belonging to the herd into which the goat was born is not listed.
  6. Correct fees are not submitted.
  7. Incorrect purchase date is listed (should be the date you took possession)
  8. Transfer of buying section is not completed (for purchased animal)
  9. Artificial Insemination Mating is marked "yes" when natural breeding actually took identify.
  10. Service memo not provided when necessary.

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