Can a breeder record animals that are less than 50% Katahdin?
The KHSI registry does allow this, but recording percentage animals with less than 50% Katahdin moves the breeder much more slowly toward registered status. Grading up aimed at moving offspring closer to registered Katahdins benefits from the use of a fully registered ram on ewes that are unrecorded or recorded at ½ (50 percent), ¾ (75 percent) or 7/8 (87.5 percent. A 25 percent animal, for example , is much more difficult to use in moving toward registered stock–usually stalling or slowing the process–than are animals of higher recordation status percentages. If I use a 75 percent recorded Katahdin ram lamb and breed him to registered Katahdin ewes, will the offspring be recordable as 87.5 percent, which can be inspected and registered as yearling, or will the offspring be treated as a 50 percent product of a grade animal and a registered animal? This is a common question. The offspring will be fully registerable with inspection–just the same as if a registered ram had been bred to
