Guide to Registrations This should be read in conjunction with Coates's Rules and Regulations
Birth notifications • All births to be notified within four months. • There is no charge. • Birth notification is required for all births, including dead calves, to maintain cow records. UK produced calves born by natural service • Bull calves must be sire verified and myostatin tested. • All calves, regardless of gender, must be verified where the breeder has any concern over parentage. It is the breeder’s responsibility to notify the Society. Check with the Society that there is a SNP profile on record for all possible sires and for all possible dams (where sire/dam verification is required). Please call the office for confirmation or look on ABRI where it will be shown as a G number. If there is no genotype on record with the Society, you will not be able to register any bull calves until the sire(s) (and dams where required) have been genotyped. Submit the birth notification. Submit the registration and where verification is required, please post a clean tail hair sample from the calf, containing at least 40 good hair follicles.
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UK produced calves born by UK semen • Bull calves must be sire verified and myostatin tested. • All calves, regardless of gender, must be verified where the breeder has any concern over parentage. It is the breeder’s responsibility to notify the Society. Check that there is a SNP genotype on record for the bull (and for the possible dams where dam verification is required). Please call the office for confirmation or look on ABRI where it will be shown as a G number. If there is no genotype on record with the Society, you will not be able to register any bull calves until the sire(s) have been genotyped. Submit the birth notification. Submit the registration and where verification is required, please post a clean tail hair sample from the calf, containing at least 40 good hair follicles.
UK produced embryos from UK cows and sires • All embryo calves must be sire and dam verified and must be myostatin tested. • An embryo flush form (ET1) and subsequently all embryo amendment forms (ET2) to be lodged with the Society at the time of flushing and implanting respectively.
