Animal Registry For Exotic Breeds

Animal registry for exotic breeds LIVESTOCK Exotic Animals 11-6-29 If you raise red wattle or red waddle hogs, or any other rare or exotic breed of livestock or poultry, you'll be interested in a new "Animal Registry" services introduced by Ruth Prentice, of Terril, Iowa. She and her husband Robert were well-known breeders of Red Wattle hogs until his health problems forced them to sell the entire herd. "We needed a registry service like this when we were in business and have met dozens of other livestock producers who have need for it. Unable to find it available elsewhere, we decided to offer it ourselves," says Ruth. Their new "rare breed" registry requires a prescribed method of marking animals to be registered. They keep copies of all registry certificates they issue. All documents showing an animal's sire and dam and their parents, and all transactions involving transfer of ownership, are marked with an official seal, recorded in the local courthouse. Initial registration costs $4.50 per animal. Transfers are $3. If you do both at one time, the total cost is $4.50. "Extended pedigrees may be obtained on any individual animal to show great grandsire, dam and so forth. There is no membership charge," notes Ruth. For more information, contact: FARM SHOW Followup; Animal Registry; Ruth Preston, President; Rt. 1, Box 112; Tend, Iowa 51364 (ph 712 853-6372).

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