If you are interested in breeding and selling your dairy goats, Linear Appraisal is a must.
No, not all successful breeders participate in LA. Yes, there will still be a market for your kids even if you don't do LA. BUT! If your goal is to raise high-quality dairy goats, and to sell to other performance herds, you should really think about getting your girls in front of an appraiser. An appraiser is a super high trained ultra-judge who comes and judges your goats. Unlike shows, where all the goats are judged off the each other (which means if all the other goats suck, of course the only decent animal will win) with LA, every goat is judged off the 'perfect' goat. But in this world, nothing is perfect, so the highest score any animal can earn is '94'. Even then, I'm pretty sure you need to go in front of an ADGA comittee to see if your goat really deserves that high of a score. FUN FACT: The highest score a Nigerian Dwarf has ever recieved is an '93'
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