Ragdollcatlady's Just a Little Patch of Weeds Farm journal

[babsbag]

I don't really understand why ABGA wants the DNA test. Are they looking at the future or are there that many people fudging on papers? I have to test a doeling if I want to register her. She looks like a mini but I have written down that she should be a standard. But to have to test every buck used as a sire is a little over the top IMO.

 

[OneFineAcre]

So happy you have water.

 

[ragdollcatlady]

Babs, I think it is primarily looking to the future as well attempting to keep the fullblood herdbook honest. They don't register percentage bucks until they are very high percentage for the purebred book, but maybe with DNA testing they will start to allow it. As of yet, if I understand correctly, they can't tell if an animal is a certain percentage boer or not. They are starting with collecting and logging the genetic markers at the specific loci. If you submit the parents and kids DNA, they can tell if the kid has the same make up of genes from those 2 animals.

Thanks OFA, I can't tell you how happy I am. We will likely still need to drill here shortly, but with 6 full feet of water, maybe we can get by for awhile. These well guys got our neighbor by on something like a foot and a half for several months. I am still planning on downsizing the animals, but alot of the pressure is off. With the hundred degree days, I can't tell you just how worried I was. It is easy enough to buy bottled water for humans, but the goats and birds go through alot of water a day during the heat.

 

[Mike CHS]

Interruption with our water supply was the primary reason we tapped into the rural water system when they finally got to our place. We are keeping the well hooked up to the garden and pasture but since it is 1400' deep, I can't imagine the cost to replace it. It is so deep that it is registered on the old nuclear emergency water source at the state.

 

[babsbag]

I still can't fathom a 1400' deep well.

 

[OneFineAcre]

ADGA is requiring as of a certain date (not sure what it is) that bucks that you collect semen from have to be DNA tested to register kids from the AI breeding.

 

[ragdollcatlady]

The DNA cost wasn't too bad, $32 I think, but if you are swapping out bucks yearly or have more than one or 2, it could quickly get cost and time prohibitive.

I could see many awesome pedigreed and registerable animals going unregistered if people find the extra time and money preventative to registering. If you need to move animals quickly, waiting for test results and one more thing to pay for, won't help.

 

[Mike CHS]

1200-1600' is what it takes to get to the aquifer here (our home is a little over 1400' elevation.

 

[ragdollcatlady]

Mike,

It runs around $45 a foot to drill here.....

 

[Latestarter]

ouch!