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Overview: Adding animals

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EasyKeeper supports all classes or animals: unregistered animals in commercial operations or hobby farms, animals that are registered with -- or could be registered with -- any breed registry, as well as unregistered animals participating in programs where identification numbers are issued. To provide as streamlined a process as possible, we offer different animal entry options tailored to the animal's specific class. This article outlines those options, and which classes are best served by the option.

Add unregistered animal



Use the Add unregistered animal function to add the following classes of goats:
  • Animal is not registered with a breed registry or other recording entity
  • Animal does not have an officially issued identification number, such as a National Id
  • Animal is registered, but you don't know its registered name or registration number

Or when:*
  • Your animal is registered, but you don't want to track their registration number(s) in the system
  • You want to quickly add your animals to the system and will add their registration information at a later time
*While you can add registered animals in this manner, we do not advise it if your animals can be found via the "Add registered animal > Find animal in Community Data" or "Add animals using my DHIR Herd Id" options detailed below. By adding those animals via the unregistered animal flow, information such as the animal's National Id (US DHI Id) won't be imported into the system, preventing this ability to sync milk production records and other updates in the future.

Learn more about adding an unregistered animal


Add animal pending registration




Use the Add animal pending registration function to add the following class of goats:
  • Animal's application for registration or recordation has been submitted to a breed registry or other recording entity and the registration/recordation certificate has not yet been issued, and the animal does not already have a registration number or officially issued identification number 
Learn more about adding an animal pending registration 

Add registered animal 




Use the Add registered animal function to add the following classes of goats:
  • Animal is registered with a breed registry or other recording entity and you have its registration papers
  • Animal is registered with a breed registry or other recording entity and you don't have it's registration papers but do know its full or partial name or registration number
  • Animal is not registered with a breed registry but has an officially issued identification number such as a National Id
  • Animal is not registered with a breed registry but is, or has been, enrolled in a US DHI milk test program
Once you've made this selection, there are two ways to add registered animals:

Find animal in Community Data


Community Date lookup currently supports registered and unregistered animals on US DHI milk test programs and many animals registered with the American Dairy Goat Association and the American Goat Society. It provides an animal search function of external program databases and imports any information it finds about the animal into the Add Animal form.

If you raise registered dairy goats and are not on a US DHI milk test program, this is the best place to start. Herds that are or have been on US DHI milk test programs are best served by the "Add animals using my DHIR Herd Id" option below.

Animal lookup tip: You can add multiple animals from the Community Data lookup result. Search on a part of the animal name that is common to the animals you want to add (such as a herd prefix). This will return multiple animals you can, speeding up your data entry task by reducing the number of searches you need to perform:


When searching on the herd prefix "Shascade", 32 animals matching this search term were returned. Any of the animals on the list can be added to the herd by selecting the checkbox at the left of the animal name. 

Learn more about adding a registered animal using the Community Data lookup 

Learn more about adding unregistered animals enrolled US DHIR Herd milk test


Add registered animal manually 


For all other registered animals - and those you don't find via the Community Data lookup - this is the best option.

Learn more about adding a registered animal manually


Add animals using my DHIR Herd Id




This option allows you to use your program herd id to find many of the animals that are, or have been, associated with your herd. It will return a list of animals, from which you can choose the animals to be added to your herd. Like the "Find animal in Community Data option", it imports any information it finds about the animal into the Add Animal form.  If you find there are animals missing from the search results, you can add them manually as described in the previous section.

Use the Add animals using my DHIR Herd Id function to add the following classes of goats:
  • Your herd is, or has been, on a US DHI milk test program

Learn more about adding animals using your US DHIR Herd Id





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