STEPS TO FULL REGISTRATION
BREEDING ANIMALS with BREEDING RIGHTS
Video & Written Help Guides for Each Step Can Be Found On This Page
- Litter Notification (AKKPS Member Portal)
- Apply ID Method (member buys - not provided by AKKPS)
- Microchip
- Ear Tag
- Tattoo
- Submit Parentage Verification (PV) DNA & Receive Report back from UC Davis
- Hair Samples with bulbs attached put into an envelope - there is no kit
- AKKPS does not receive report back
- Apply for Full Registration (AKKPS Member Portal) where you will
- Upload DNA report
- Select Owner - yourself or a new owner
- Add ID method and number
- Make any changes to
- parentage
- color
- wattle status
- sex status
How To Enter All Types of Registrations
- Litter Notification
- Full Registration
- Transfer By Owner Transfer by Buyer Animal for Harvest
- Companion Animal
- Dual Registration
- Conversion from Companion Animal and Animal for Harvest
- Adding a second Owner to an AKKPS registered pig
UC Davis Parentage Verification DNA Testing
The cost of DNA with UC Davis is $40 when the test is affliated with the AKKPS (KPS) upon entering. The cost without registry affiliation is $44. To Process full registrations, the AKKPS must be affiliated in order for AKKPS to add the registered name assigned at the time of registration processing.
- How to Pull Hair Sample
- How to Enter a DNA Request
- Opening a UC Davis Account
- Delete Request
- Registry Affiliation
- How to DNA with 2 registries
- Adding a Sire or Dam
- Request Report Change
- Add DNA Match Request
Herd Book & Animal Features
- COI Simple
- COI In Depth
- Posting Sales Ads
- Herd Book Key
- Animal Change of Status
- Marking Pigs For Sale
- How to Add Photos to an Animal
- Animal Profile Features
- Understand COI
- Locking an Animals Call Name
Registration Guidelines
- Registration Steps
- Transfer Registration
- Dual Registration
- Permanent ID
- Registration Terms
How to Print a Duplicate Registratrion Certificate
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Full Registration
- Animal for Harvest Registration
- Companion Animal Registration
AKKPS Pedigree Examples & How to Read Them
- Full Registration
- Animal for Harvest Registration
- Companion Animal Registration
AKKPS Permanent ID for the USA & Canada
Microchip - Ear Tag - Tattoo
The AKKPS requires all registered animals have an ID Method placed on/in them for all 3 types of registrations.
Canada requirements are specific through PigTRACE.
The AKKPS does NOT require USA AKKPS Member Farms to obtain a Premise ID from their residing state.
Thank you AKKPS Member Cathryn Gordon of Gordon & Sons Farm
The Importance of Keeping Your Herd Book Up To Date
It is VERY IMPORTANT to please keep your MY ANIMALS statuses UPDATED IN THE AKKPS HERD BOOK via the AKKPS Member Portal.
In no way is the AKKPS encouraging or suggesting that all pigs be fully registered with breeding rights.
All animals that leave your farm should be on Full Registration, Companion Animal or Animal for Harvest pedigrees and should be transferred to the new owner to keep your My Animals up to date in the AKKPS Herd Book.
All 3 registration types are included in the yearly AKKPS Membership Dues.
When logged into the AKKPS Member Portal go to MY ANIMALS and on each pig's information page you have the option to CHANGE each pig's status.
In your MY ANIMALS you can also sort by each type of status (pending, full, animals for harvest, companion animals, under observation and deceased).
For animals that are not fully registered and are moved by the breeder to a status other than Pending - If the breeder wants to fully register the animal, the breeder can move the animal back to pending to fully register as long as the pig is still in their name.
It is strongly advised to apply an ID status (ear tag, microchip or tattoo) to ALL animals by the time they are weaned and either fully registered or their status is changed. This way the ID method matches the type of pedigree they are attached to.
The ID method number can be entered when you change the status of the animal or if the pig is fully registered.
Please remember once an animal is harvested, the animal's status should be updated to deceased.
Please do not hesitate to reach out if you have any questions to registrar@akkps.org
Full Registration Guidelines
ONLY THE BREEDER/FARM OF THE LITTER CAN REGISTER A PIGLET FROM THE LITTER.
THE BREEDER MUST OWN THE AKKPS REGISTERED SOW AT THE TIME OF FARROWING AND THE BOAR MUST BE AKKPS REGISTERED.
- Litter Notification Application (AKKPS Member Portal and emailed back to you immediately)
- Apply ID Method to pig - Member chooses method and purchase
- Microchip
- Ear Tag
- Tattoo
- DNA - Parentage Verification Submission using information from the Litter Notification (applied for using UC Davis and takes 15 days from receipt at lab)
- Apply for Full Registration once the DNA report is returned via email from UC Davis to the member (AKKPS Member Portal)
- AKKPS Registrar Processes the Full Registration Application (can take up to 4 weeks) and an emailed pedigree is sent to the owner of the pig designated in the Full Registration Application
Transfer Registration Guidelines
There are 2 ways to transfer an animal. Whomever is submitting the transfer must be an AKKPS Member.
- The AKKPS Member & Owner logs into the AKKPS Member Portal and submits a Transfer of Ownership in the My Animals Section.
- The Buyer logs into the AKKPS Member Portal and submits a Buyer Transfer and uploada the owner signed AKKPS certificate. The certificate can be signed by the current owner anywhere on the certificate.