The American Dairy Goat Association Type Project is an initiative of ADGA's volunteer Type Committee and the 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.
Click on one of the breed pictures below to go to that breed.
Data and Pictures of each individual are linked, plus an album and breed table index are available.
The Project has two elements...a spreadsheet of animal information and a linked picture archive (breed tables & albums). This is provided to members of ADGA, who 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, but this site is not directly linked to the registry base.
To date, we have received and posted 201 photos and their associated data from 40 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 in 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)
The database for forms & photos is broken into breed tables. In each breed table, the registration number of an animal is linked to its photo. By clicking on the registration number in the table, you can retrieve a picture of the animal in the year of the listed achievement. For some, there is more than one listing of an animal in order to show the 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. You can view pedigree & performance data of an animal from the table by following that link and the instructions.
This is an ongoing process and data are entered as received, verified, and processed. It is the intent of the Type Committee to eventually make this even more useful as a searchable database.
We hope this will provide you with handy references for type improvement.
Useful Links:
Current Top Ten Production
Alpine Lamancha Nubian Oberhasli Saanen Toggenburg Experimental Nigerian Dwarf Sable
National Show Results
2005 2006 & 2007 * New! 2008
Comments about this website are welcomed.
Page Last Updated: 7/30/2008
Contact: dthompson@acegroup.cc