How does this work? Our Nubian is full blood but not registered. I don't even know how I would research her parentage since the man I got her from doesn't know where the people he got her from have moved to. Is it done by pictures or does someone ave to physically come here and look her over?
No scrapies tag. I checked her ears and could not find a tattoo either. kelebek, that sounds easy enough. Are there specific picture shots I need to get?
Face, body (both sides) and then a rear if you can. Then you find someone who is ADGA member to write you a letter for each animal stating that they think the animal is purebred ---- and then sign. Then you send that in with the registration papers
If you look at the Scrapies tag there is one number on top and a bigger number underneath that. The bottom number is just the goat number. The top number is the herd ID identifying what herd the goat is from. Your state should have a Scrapies site that you can go to and look up that herd ID. It won't identify the goat or its parents though. It'll only tell you who the herd ID belongs to. Another problem is that if you get a goat that doesn't have the tag in its ear you are supposed to tag it with your own tag. So whoever tagged your goat could have gotten it from someone else and tagged it themselves with THEIR herd ID so that doesn't help you track the parents at all.
glad to hear that I did not have to tag new babys that may or may not be born here going to buy a tattoo gun/stamp for them soon. Mindy
If you plan to show or raise Nigerian Dwarfs then do not put a tag in its ear. Tattoo them. You can also use microchips but they're a bit pricey to do all kids born.
