Important Registration Requirements:
IGSCR follows the new Scrapie law. For a goat to be registered, specific documents must bel present.
- Permanent ID for every goat being registered, physically on the goat
- Bill of sales/transfer or letter/email to IGSCR office from seller
- We request that all transfers be submitted to the IGSCR office within 2 months of the sale or transfer, if possible. If you have not sent this information into our office within the correct time frame, please still send it in anyway
- Breeder full contact information
- Owner full contact information
Other Registration Requirements:
These registrations are holding an RGA of 87.5%-100% purity
- Heights at withers once goat is an adult (Nigerian Dwarf, Pygmy, Miniature Breeds)
- 4-generation Proven Pedigree (with registration numbers from such registries as IGSCR (IDGR), AGS, ADGA, NDGA, MDGA, TMGR
- If goat or parents registered with another registry, we request copy of the parents Registration Certificate
- Clear side photo taken at goat's level (not above) and pointing camera at the middle of the belly
Recorded Grade and Grade Experimental
These registrations have an RGA purity of 0%-87.4%
We do registrations known as Recorded Grade, where little or no pedigree information is known. This is known as the Recorded Grade Registration Cerrificate. Animals are given a Recorded Grade registration number, based upon Recorded on Appearance and also with the miniature breeds, height as an adult
Requirements include
- same ID as above (following scrapie law)
- exception to scrapie law is that you may not know who the breeder is
- You may know little or no iniformation on the pedigree (thus Recorded Grade)
San Clemente Island Document Identification
San Clemente Island goats are in a class all on their own for registations and are an endangered goat breed. In order for RGA 100% purity to occur, we require 4 generations of known and proven pedigree, as in any other breed.
For those who do not know the San Clemete Island breed, they are an endangered and very unique DNA of goat breed, where their DNA does not match any other breed.
If little to nothing is known about the pedigree of the San Clemente Island then IGSCR will issue a San Clemente Island Document Certifiacte without an won't list the RGA as 100%. Upon proof with documentation of 4 generations of pedigree then the Document Identifiation will be changed to the regular Registration Certificate of RGA 100% purity.
What else Is IGSCR doing to aid in registrations?
We and/or our members are working with a well known lab to hopefully create a DNA purity test for several breeds: San Clemente Island, Nigerian Dwarf, Nubian.
Currently to our knowledge, there are no purity tests available for goat breeds.
If the above purity tests become available, then Recorded Grades who pass that Purity test (if those tests become available) will be given RGA: 100% DNAPurity status