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Dairy Goat Herd Improvement is a commitment to production related goals. This program includes year round monitoring of milk volume, components and herd health. At California DHIA, dairy goat herds are enrolled in 8 local associations. CDHIA provides support for the commitment that herd owners and producers have made to improving quality through a milk recording program. As with their dairy cattle herds, CDHIA associations produce herd and doe records for dairy producers for dairy herd management, genetic evaluations, and pedigree purposes.

CDHIA has recently contracted with ADGA to provide a quality assurance program for dairy goats. This program will assure acceptance by USDA that records are made under uniform conditions and appropriate to use for genetic purposes.

CDHIA provides a verification notification to its local associations so that they can alert producers with high producing animals that may have the potential to earn breed recognition awards. Levels are determined each year by the Dairy Goat Advisory committee based on previous top breed leader averages. CDHIA publishes an Honor Roll each year of herds meeting production minimums.

Tester Training specific to dairy goats is held at various times during the year, generally in late winter/early spring. There is an annual training at the UC Davis Dairy Goat Day in January (1/19/2008). Others are due to be scheduled in Oregon and California for 2008. They will be posted as they are arranged.

For more information, contact:

Scott Taylor, General Manager

150 Clovis Avenue, Suite 102

Clovis, CA 93612

877-CAL-DHIA (877-225-3442) or, cadhiaqc@aol.com

CDHIA has a Dairy Goat Advisory Committee with representatives from each regional association. This committee meets once a year in December. If you have suggestions or questions as to how the committee can assist you, or if you would like to attend the next meeting (December 1, 2007) contact either of the following:

Joan Dean Rowe, DVM, Chair

jdrowe@ucdavis.edu

Lisa Shepard, Secretary

shepard@thegrid.net

MANAGING the DAIRY HERD through DHI:

1. Performance goals. Information describing "what is desired". 2. Descriptive information. Information describing "what is". 3. Diagnostic information. Information describing "what is wrong". 4. Predictive information. Information describing "what if". 5. Prescriptive information. Information describing "what should be". (Excerpted, Dairy Herd Improvement Handbook, 1985)

Following are the local associations currently handling dairy goat records. Contact them for information as to how to join. Visit for a full listing of CDHIA associations.

	Fresno DHIA Joe D'Alessandro 559-233-7133 2563 S. Sarah Street, Fresno, CA 93706
	Central Counties DHIA 209-356-0355 241 Business Park Way Atwater, CA 95301
	Kings County DHIA 559-582-2010 126 South 10th Avenue, Hanford, CA 93230
	Northwest Dairy Goat Herd Improvement Association Cathy Gesch 541-444-9065 PO Box 573 Stiletz, OR 97380
	Southern Counties DHIA Rick Bealer 909-597-2111 7000 Merrill Avenue, Box 10, Bldg. 4, Chino, CA 91710
	Southern Counties DGIA 909-737-5538 4239 Corona Avenue, Norco, CA 91760
	Tillamook DHIA 503-842-4843 2306 10th Street, Tillamook, OR 97141
	Willamette DHIA/Northwest DGHIA Lab - 503-362-1880 - Cathy Gesch, Secretary, 541-444-9065 1232 Commercial St. N.E., Salem, OR 97303

Since 1994, CDHIA has published annual dairy goat statistics summarizing production information in participating herds by breed, by association, by herd size, and by test type plan.

Milk lbs.	Fat lbs.	Fat %	Protein lbs.	Protein %	RHA SCC	Peak Milk
1828(std)	64	3.50	55	3.01	694	9.9
903(mini)	46	5.11	36	3.98	275	4.1

CaDHIA has 2,747 does in 65 herds enrolled in 5 states. Records are processed either through AgriTech Analytics or DHI-Provo. CDHIA herds routinely are in DHI-Provo's Top Herd listing.