ROYAL GOLDEN GUERNSEY SEMEN IMPORT!!
BREAKING NEWS!
FIRST NEW GENETICS IN 18 YEARS
Yorkshire Moors
The RGG semen has landed!! $200 per straw
Contact Dr Sarah Owens: SarahJOwens@OwensEquine.com
DETAILS AND PHOTOS ARE IN THE MEMBERS AREA
REQUIREMENTS FOR PURCHASERS (To maximize benefit to the breed)
Dual register their herd.
Many owners have beef with either BGS or the ADGA, but the reality is the breed is caught between a heritage rooted in England and supported only by the English registry and a future where the many resources and familiarity provided by ADGA will become useful. If we are fortunate enough to get more imports of semen or embryos in the future, or export from the US to the UK, keeping history of lineages back to the beginning on Grassroots will be helpful. The US and the UK are the only countries working to better Guernsey Goats and cooperation would be immensely valuable. If there is a split between registries and some animals get left out of either one, the picture of the breed as a whole becomes incomplete. Perhaps someday we will be beyond this limbo, but not quite yet.
Have clean herd PCR testing for Johnes and serum testing for CAE and CL.
Johnes disease killed the Golden Guernseys in the US and devastated some of our best British Guernseys. Wasting this semen on infected herds would be very unfortunate. Questions and test results can be sent directly to me.
Be members of the GGBoA.
This is an important way to support the breed and the small group of people working hard to promote it– it’s the official organization representing Guernsey Goats to the ADGA, and we need more members in order to represent democratically. A few others and I are working on dramatically increasing the benefits of membership and expanding the projects of the organization, but in order to provide more resources we MUST HAVE MORE MEMBERS– website costs go up dramatically with increased functionality. Details will be in a separate post and on the website. It’s a pretty inexpensive way to make a difference!