Miniature
Silky Fainting Goat
Association LLC


     Welcome to the Miniature Silky Fainting Goat Association and Registry.  MSFGA is a privately owned organization developed to meet the growing interest in the Miniature Silky Fainting Goats, also known as Mini Silkies. We are dedicated to providing information and registry services for everyone interested in this new and exciting breed of goat. There are links from this page to the new revised standard for Miniature Silky Fainting Goats, which is in printable format. There is also information on how to get a goat into the registry as a foundation animal, to view that information, click on the "Foundation Application" button at the bottom of the page.  Your application and pictures will be reviewed by our committee. If the committee agrees that your goat conforms to the standard, your goat will be registered as a foundation animal in the MSFGA herd books. The books will remain open until we feel we have obtained a reasonable gene pool; at that point there will be an announcement and date given when the books will be closed. After the books have closed, the only animals entered in the herd books will be those that are born out of two registered parents.

You must have your herd, business or farm name registered with the MSFGA in order for you to be able to register your goats with us. There are forms for you to register your herd name and information on how to go about that in a printable format. Information and Applications of registration for kids out of registered parents, a service memo form,  are also in a printable format. You can view these application forms and information by clicking on the appropriate buttons at the bottom of this page. There is also a history page with information on how it all began.

There seems to be some confusion on whether Mini Silkies have to have Nigerian Dwarf goats in their background or not. There is no requirement that the Mini Silkies have to be crossed with Nigerian Dwarf Goats. There are small fainters out there that will qualify as Mini Silkies even though there are no Nigerian Dwarf Goats in their background. We encourage all who are interested in developing this breed to submit your goats for foundation approval, regardless of what their backgrounds are. Mini Silkies are not required to faint, so if you have a goat that looks like a Mini Silky, but it doesn't faint, we would be interested in considering it for foundation status. We are striving for a particular look, if you go to our Visual Standard page, you will see photos of what a Miniature Silky Fainting Goat should look like.

Because we are new and experimental, we want to be able to include most goats that exhibit the long coat and look that we are striving to achieve. Therefore, we have revised the MSFGA standard to reflect more tolerance in some areas. In the revised edition of the standard we have relaxed the height limit so that we may include more foundation animals. As the breed progresses and the size of the breeding stock becomes smaller and more consistent we can lower the height restrictions again if we desire to do so. We also reworded the standard to be easier to understand and to better describe what we are trying to achieve. We have designed a score sheet as well, to help judges better evaluate Mini Silkies in the show ring. Click on the Score Sheet button below to view score sheet.

 Availability is very limited at the present but we hope that by creating a registry we will be able to encourage new breeders, increase the gene pool and the available stock for sale. If you are interested in being a pioneer and like adventures, you may want to join us in developing the Miniature Silky Fainting Goat as a breed. There are currently over 950 goats and 65 registered herd names in the MSFGA registry.

This webpage is a work in process, please keep checking back for more developments and updates. Feel free to email me, Renee Orr, Registrar at msfga@starband.net, if you have any questions. For more Mini Silky Fainting Goat breeders click on the
Breeders List button below. 

NEW FEATURE OF MSFGA WEBSITE!!!!
We have the Sale Page up and running, to check out
what some of the MSFGA breeders are offering for sale click on the
"For Sale Page" button below.
If you have a registered herd name and breeding stock with the MSFGA and you would like to post animals for sale; send me pictures, what you would like to say about the animals and contact information and we will post it for you at no charge.
 

To see our new "Visual Standard" page for information on what an Ideal Mini Silky should look like click on the "Visual Standard" button below.

Tattoo letter for 2007 is "X"
Tattoo letter for 2008 is "Y"

Services and Fees 

*NOTE: Some Fees increased as of January 1, 2007 

Committee Approval for Foundation Stock – Fees for committee
approved foundation stock have gone up as of January 1, 2007 due to the amount
of work entering and assigning listing numbers to animals behind the goat
approved for foundation status and the expense of postage and handling.
These fees are non-refundable; they are the cost of having your animal considered
for foundation status.

       Does                          $10.00

       Bucks                         $15.00   

Registration for animals out of registered parents: 

           Does                               $5.00

          Bucks                              $7.50

          Wethers                           $5.00

 Herd Name Registration – Your Herd Name must be registered with the MSFGA
in order for you to register goats with us. The Herd Name registration fee is a one time
fee and there are no annual membership dues. 

          Herd Name Registration Fee               $25.00                         

Transfer of Ownership – The  transfer of ownership form is on the back of the
Registration Certificate, fill it out, sign it in the appropriate places and send to
the MSFGA with the ownership transfer fee and we will send you a new certificate. 

          Owner Transfer Fee                 $5.00             

Returned Check Fee                   $25.00  

Name Change - The MSFGA strongly discourages any name changes once a
Mini Silky is registered. A name can only be changed by the breeder and only if
the Mini Silky does not have registered offspring. Fee for changing a name,
which can be requested by the breeder only is:     $25.00
 

Please click on buttons below to go to other pages within this website.

     Button to History Page Button to Breeder's List Page   
   
   

Please click on buttons below for printable information and forms.