Sheep, goats and camelids Working Group

The Working Group was endorsed at the 40th ICAR Biennial Session held in Puerto Varas and it is the result of the merging of three previous Working Groups (Performance Recording of Dairy Sheep WG + Goat Performance Recording WG + Animal Fibre WG).

In 2018, following a decision of the Board, the Working Group was enlarged to include Large Camelids (Dromedaries and Bactrian Camels).

Guidelines and survey

The SGC WG has created three Expert Advisory Groups (EAG) to provide specialist and expert advice on topics of relevance to achieving the objectives of the Group:

• EAG on sheep and goat milk recording
• EAG on sheep, goat and camelid fiber recording
• EAG on sheep and goat meat, reproduction and maternal traits recording
• EAG on large camelid recording

The SGC-WG maintains, updates, promotes and extends the following section of the guidelines:

• Section 14: Alpaca and Goat identification and fibre
• Section 16: Dairy sheep and gotas
• Section 21 – Meat, reproduction and maternal traits in sheep and goats

The SGC WG is currently working on establishing a section of the guidelines on meat, reproduction and maternal traits recording

Also, the SGC WG conducts and reports the results of the international survey on sheep and goats performance recording