ADGA Registration Help!!!

[CapraCurry]

Hello! I'm very new to this community so please bear with me and my ignorance! I finally went to go visit the little Nigerian Dwarf doeling that will begin my little herd and I'll be taking her home next week! Very, very cute! I'm in the FFA and I share the land with my lifelong friend who will also be raising Nigerians. We wish to register our goats under one herd so that the offspring produced from them would carry our shared herd name. Is that possible? Can youth members even do that? And if so, how would we go about doing that? Should I register my herd at the same time that I do my membership registration? Also, when registering, the field asking for the "Membership Name", Would that be my first and last name? I appreciate any help given!!
Thank you very much!

 

[babsbag]

Hi and welcome to BYH from California. You need to wait on the herd name until your membership has been processed. As far as sharing a name I would call ADGA and ask them. I know that families do it all of the time, but not sure how that happens. You might reconsider sharing a name as someday you will most likely go separate ways and who takes the name?

The goat in you avatar is adorable, is that your new one? Is she registered with ADGA?

 

[CapraCurry]

That's her! She hasn't been registered yet, as the breeder would prefer that I become a member before doing the registration and transfer, it just makes the whole thing easier that way. Supposedly if the transfer is done to a non member and then I become a member the transfer form has to be done again to transfer her to myself.
We have definitely considered the possibility that we could go separate ways, but we figure our herd is going to end up being very small in the long run and will, at max, make it to 5 or 6 goats. The way our lives are lined up I just can't see us becoming strangers but you are definitely right.

 

[babsbag]

Then if you want to share a herd name I would get your membership done and call ADGA, they are very good about answering questions. The goat you are buying will have the herd name that belongs to the breeder so you have time to get your herd name before your kids come in a year of so. Good luck with your new little girl. Is this your first goat?

 

[CapraCurry]

Yes, this is my first goat indeed. However, I've raised just about a billion chickens or so in my lifetime and I currently raising a hampshire/suffolk sheep cross for show and market. Very, very excited to start showing and raising goats! In the past, I had only ever been around "petting zoo" goats, which I personally never found to be all that affectionate. Took the food and they were gone. I had thought that they'd be like the sheep, somewhat skittish and unhappy about being handled or touched. Boy was I wrong! When I walked into the breeders doe pen they were ALL over me, two even coming to sit in my lap like a dog! They did not seem to mind being scratched and stroked all over Now I had heard about goats being sweet in the past but wow they sure weren't kidding!

 

[babsbag]

Well welcome to the world of goats and unless your parents stop you it is almost certain that you will own many more than 4 or 5. We call it the Goat Addiction Syndrome. No one can stop once they own one. 7 years ago I bought three, I now have about 40 and we are building a dairy. Watch out, they are addicting, much worse than chickens and I have a bunch of those too. Just wait until the first kids are born, you will be hooked. Read all you can, learn all you can, and ask all the questions that you want; we love to help and there are a lot of goat owners on here with many years of experience.

Does your FFA leader have goat experience or do you have another goat mentor?

 

[Latestarter]

Just wanted to jump in real quick and say Greetings @Mintatheena from the front range in Colorado! ! You've hooked up with one of the "go to" goat people here in @babsbag ! There are others as well. A real specialist on the Nigerians is @OneFineAcre . Really great folks here all around if you ever have issues/problems! Hope you'll stick around a while and share stories and pictures (especially pictures... we all love those!). Good luck on your journey!

 

[Southern by choice]

@One Acre Farm will be the most helpful about the rules etc.
Personally I would recommend you have your herd and your friend has their herd... long term less issues.
Personally I find some of the ADGA rules a little hard to understand. I work with 4 registries and ADGA is the most confusing. LOL

 

[Fullhousefarm]

Yes, you can do it. You just have to realize that legally they will both be both of yours and if you ever want to separate you'll have to transferal goats into separate names at that point. It would make showing (goats have to be registerd in youth's name for ADGA youth shows) and breeding easier in that you can both show all goats and you don't have to write breeding memos and such if your herd gets larger.

You'll need a "family" membership- not youth. (That's what my daughter has had since she was 9) You'll need to put both names. So, "Sally Johnson and Jane Doe." Currently ours is DaughtersFirstname Lastname and family. That way her brothers can show too now. I know a family that has three last names on theirs since they have kids with different last names and also are god parents and have partial custody of another. So theirs is like "Smith, Doe, and Johnson family." ADGA is usually very helpful when you call, but I'd just sign up online and you shouldn't have any problem. I do believe there are some rules about accounts having more than two names, but don't know the specifics.

You can also have two separate youth accounts and share a herd name and tattoo letters/numbers. So, that would be another option. There is a form to sign to let someone else use your herd name and tattoo.

 

[OneFineAcre]

Yes, you can do it. You just have to realize that legally they will both be both of yours and if you ever want to separate you'll have to transferal goats into separate names at that point. It would make showing (goats have to be registerd in youth's name for ADGA youth shows) and breeding easier in that you can both show all goats and you don't have to write breeding memos and such if your herd gets larger.

You'll need a "family" membership- not youth. (That's what my daughter has had since she was 9) You'll need to put both names. So, "Sally Johnson and Jane Doe." Currently ours is DaughtersFirstname Lastname and family. That way her brothers can show too now. I know a family that has three last names on theirs since they have kids with different last names and also are god parents and have partial custody of another. So theirs is like "Smith, Doe, and Johnson family." ADGA is usually very helpful when you call, but I'd just sign up online and you shouldn't have any problem. I do believe there are some rules about accounts having more than two names, but don't know the specifics.

You can also have two separate youth accounts and share a herd name and tattoo letters/numbers. So, that would be another option. There is a form to sign to let someone else use your herd name and tattoo.

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ADGA is usually helpful. Now would be a good time to talk to them, before the spring rush of registrations/shows/milk tests swamps them.