I have looked through the ADGA website and cannot find the answer to this question: if a doe is ADGA registered but the buck is AGS and NDGA, can the offspring be registered ADGA? And what, exactly, is the tattoo for? ID, yes...but we register dogs and horses etc. without using a tattoo.
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You would either need to use the buck's AGS papers to get him ADGA registered, so you could then directly register the kids with ADGA -- or (assuming the doe is registered with AGS) you can register the kids with AGS and then send the AGS papers to ADGA to re-register.
The bottom line is that AGS and ADGA have reciprocal registration, so if a goat is registered in one, they can be registered in the other. However, NDGA goats can only be registered in NDGA.
When a goat wins at a show, the tattoos are checked to be sure that it is indeed the goat whose papers are being presented. Someone could theoretically have a champion and just keep showing it and winning and presenting different registration papers. Since the papers have the goat's coat color, it would not be as easy to do that with NDs, but with oberhasli, saanen, and toggenburgs, they are impossible to tell apart unless you know the goats personally because every goat in the breed is the same color.
Tattoos also provide a positive ID in case a goat is stolen, which is more common that you think. And when you get a health certificate, the tattoo numbers are checked for the same reason as at a show -- someone could take a healthy goat to the vet and get the certificate, then go home and sell a sick goat with the papers.
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You would either need to use the buck's AGS papers to get him ADGA registered, so you could then directly register the kids with ADGA -- or (assuming the doe is registered with AGS) you can register the kids with AGS and then send the AGS papers to ADGA to re-register.
The bottom line is that AGS and ADGA have reciprocal registration, so if a goat is registered in one, they can be registered in the other. However, NDGA goats can only be registered in NDGA.
When a goat wins at a show, the tattoos are checked to be sure that it is indeed the goat whose papers are being presented. Someone could theoretically have a champion and just keep showing it and winning and presenting different registration papers. Since the papers have the goat's coat color, it would not be as easy to do that with NDs, but with oberhasli, saanen, and toggenburgs, they are impossible to tell apart unless you know the goats personally because every goat in the breed is the same color.
Tattoos also provide a positive ID in case a goat is stolen, which is more common that you think. And when you get a health certificate, the tattoo numbers are checked for the same reason as at a show -- someone could take a healthy goat to the vet and get the certificate, then go home and sell a sick goat with the papers.