rachels.haven's Journal

[rachels.haven]

To put all that in shorter terms, turns out my white ND buck is not who he was supposed to be and is his less well bred brother.

And my barn is barking.

 

[rachels.haven]

?????????? Barn is barking???? You got a backup for Riker?????

How is the fencing coming along?

I think after a short day of work with lots of set up it's about half way! One, maybe two more business days.

 

[Baymule]

Bad breeder! BAD! What does the registry do about individuals like that?
What a disappointment.

A barking barn! What will they think of next?

 

[rachels.haven]

Registry usually does nothing. If they offend the wrong big wig they may give them a slap on the wrist. The worst I've seen them do is force them to turn in DNA whenever they register kids or sell goats. Personally I think they should kick repeat offenders out and downgrade their herd's pedigree status to grade so people who have the bad breeder's animals can breed up to American or purebred generations again with bucks that have more honest pedigrees and return the pedigree lines to accuracy. (ND people don't like the concept of non purebreds, so that would never fly, and obviously nobody there asked me)

 

[Baymule]

That’s a shame. If the big breeders get away with falsifying pedigrees, then there is no integrity in the breed.

 

[rachels.haven]

That’s a shame. If the big breeders get away with falsifying pedigrees, then there is no integrity in the breed.

That's why they're requiring DNA on all bucks born after like 2021 if I remember right. And they probably wanted to do does too before they started having software issues. An extra $37 expense on all registrations because the big money breeders don't feel rules apply to them.
Anyway...

 

[rachels.haven]

Riker, who is on a hunger strike since being put in the micro pen (hence the bowl of food I've been following him around with) got his new queen bitch today. He doesn't seem to think she's real but doesn't want to stop following her around in the barn. And she's quit barking.

 

[rachels.haven]

He actually came up to me in the pen and wanted to be leashed.and taken to meet her and could hardly contain himself enough to walk in a straight line.

 

[rachels.haven]

Happy Riker.

 

[Mini Horses]

DNA -- same thing in mini horse registry in early 90s. Parentage could be fake. We were part of push to make it mandatory for any registration. There was "phase in" period for foals until parents were DNAd, then, a must. I had already started that on my entire herd. It's a selling point-- esp if registry is on board. Then micro chips were there....mini & Boer goats.

Parentage can be critical for breeding traits.