Rural Gardening: Meet Onyx, 0 by beadmom

beadmom wrote:
As long as you can prove papers on who crossed who they can be registered as grades. If not..... mutts,

However.. If you have a goat that you got say from a rescue or something and have no lineage documentation but it looks like a pure something (for our purposes we'll say a LaMancha), you can get any member of the American Dairy Goat Assoc. to write a letter saying it looks like a LaMancha and it can be registered as a Grade-Native on Appearance. Then if you breed that goat to a registered LaMancha and then those babies get bred to a registered LaMancha, the third generation can be registered as full American LaMancha.

So you can use a "mutt" that looks proper and eventually upgrade your herd.
Just remember the CAE thing and get them tested before you go to all that effort.

This concludes our goat registration class for today!

Ginger