The ADGA Type Project

The American Dairy Goat Association Type Project is an initiative of ADGA's
volunteer Type Committee and this website is created and maintained by them.

The intent is to provide a resource for ADGA members interested in understanding
and improving type characteristics in dairy goats.

This site is linked to the ADGA website as a result of a cooperative agreement with ADGA.
The pictures and names of the dairy goats shown here are those submitted voluntarily by the owners.

Data and Pictures of each individual are linked, in a breed album and, in some cases, a breed table.

Click on one of the pictures below to visit an album of pictures and data  for that breed.

 

 

Currently, the Project has two elements for each breed...
a spreadsheet of animal information and a linked picture archive (breed tables & albums).

Members of ADGA voluntarily submit pictures and baseline information about
their does and bucks of high achievement for the year of that achievement.
We verify information using ADGA records and, though this site is linked to the ADGA Genetics base,
we share data only through cooperative agreement, not as the official registry.

To date, we have received and posted 219 photos and their associated data from 44 different breeders.
Information was entered into a spreadsheet with a number of parameters. If necessary, photos were
scanned, reformatted, & labeled. The quality of the photo received sets the quality of the photo displayed.
In a few cases, the image size was kept small in order to provide a view that was not blurred in appearance.

The standards of achievement to qualify were set by the type committee for three categories:

     Production (Top Ten in Milk, Butterfat, or Protein)

         Show (Permanent Championship Achievement, GCH or CH)

      Linear Appraisal (Final Score 89 or Greater or 88 with an Excellent Mammary Score)

There is more than one listing for some goats, in order to show their development and
acquisition of additional levels of achievement. We highly value submissions for animals
over a period of years that provide both type & production information.

A link to "Pedigree Search" on the ADGA Genetics page is shown the bottom of each breed table,
with the exception of the Toggenburg and Nigerian Dwarf breeds. You can view pedigree & performance data of an animal from
the table by following that link and the instructions. We are in the process of revising the format of the data presentation. For Toggenburg, Nigerian Dwarf, some Nubians & some Alpines one can simply click on the
goat's name in that breed's table to link to the pedigree and performance data from the ADGA website.

This is an ongoing process and data are entered as received, verified, and processed. 
It is the intent of the Type Committee to continue to improve this site as a more useful, searchable database

 

 

 

 

Useful Links:

     Top Ten Production - 2009
         Alpine   LaMancha   Nubian   Oberhasli   Saanen   Toggenburg   Experimental   Nigerian Dwarf   Sable

     Linear Appraisal Trait Means - 2010

     National Show Results - 2010
          Alpine   LaMancha   Nubian   Oberhasli   Saanen   Toggenburg  Recorded Grade   Nigerian Dwarf

     ADGA Genetics

 

Comments about this website are welcomed.

Site Last Updated: 10/4/2011

Contact:  dthompson@acegroup.cc

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