Important Rendy 2019 Question re Health Certs

[Nanno]

The USDA recognizes the ADGA Certificate of ID as a registration. But yeah, they do have to be tattooed or microchipped for ADGA to issue a certificate. But since states are starting to recognize microchips for their scrapies ID program, this makes things easier for those who don't want to use ear tags. My biggest concern with microchips right now is that many sale barns and auctions don't recognize microchips or have the ability to scan them yet, and if my goats were ever stolen or displaced (such as in a wildfire), most people will not even think to scan for a microchip, but they will look in the ears for tattoos. Hopefully this will start changing pretty quickly because microchips seem a lot easier all the way around and are certainly more accurate.