Welcome to the official website of the American Goat Society!

The American Goat Society, Inc. was founded in 1935. In 1937, AGS merged with the International Dairy Goat Record Association, which had been established in 1925: so some of the pedigree records of AGS go back more than 80 years.

The American Goat Society has a long history of pioneering. It was the first organization to register purebred goats exclusively.  It was first to supply two generations of pedigrees on the registration certificate. AGS brought the first national dairy goat show. It was first to provide training for goat judges. It was first to offer classification of dairy goats. Today, AGS continues to seek new ways to serve dairy goat enthusiasts.

AGS welcomes new members with open arms and we do accept for re-registration purebred animals based on their ADGA or CGS registrations. We welcome ADGA and CGS animals, both purebred and Americans, into our AGS sanctioned shows including the AGS National Show. We are proud of the fact that AGS offers some of the most reasonable rates to be found in any animal registry. We recognize that this society belongs to our members and both the board and the office staff work hard to provide our members with the respect and service they deserve.

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OFFICE CLOSURE:  The office will be closed from September 17-27, we are hoping to pull the database to send to the programmer during this time.  We hope to have the new office software up and running when we reopen on the 28th. We are trying very hard to be completely caught up before the office closes. The office is working on mail received the 19th of July. We apologize for the long turn around time and we are working long hours to try to catch up.  If you need papers for upcoming shows please call the office.  -updated 8/27/10 We are going to be slowly working on rebuilding the information and photos from the Master Champion Gallery.  If you have a Master Champion from 2005-2010 please send us 1 photo (please keep your file size to a min) along with the following information:Name of Goat, Year Finished, Owner, Breeder, Sire & Dam.  Please put the phrase:MCH UPDATE in your subject line.  It will take us some time to rebuild these pages so please keep checking back.  We will try to send you a reply email to let you know we received your information.  If you do not get a reply email from us in about a week's time please contact the office.