ESTABLISHED GUIDELINES FOR THE EXCHANGE OF LINEAGE ANDPERFORMANCE INFORMATION AND TO DEFINE THE NECESSARY AND SUFFICIENT BASIS FOR RECIPROCAL REGISTRATION BETWEEN HERDBOOKS.

1. have the capacity to identify and store at least five generations of lineage and performance information;
   
   
2. have the capacity and willingness to identify any animal in those five generations which is not the offspring of Holstein or Friesian sires and dams;
   
   
3. routinely use quality control procedures to assure the accuracy of its records, in particular, parentage verification testing as an integral part of the registration process, and have the capacity and willingness to verify parentage and provide either a blood type or genotype according to the standards of the International Society of Animal Genetics (ISAG);
   
   
4. have the capacity and willingness to provide records of performance information according to the standards and procedures of the International Committee on Animal Recording (ICAR);
   
   
5. have the capacity and willingness to provide embryo identification documentation that includes copies of the blood type or genotype of the donor dam and donor sire according to the recommendations of the International Embryo Transfer Society (IETS);
   
   
6. have the capacity and willingness to identify and record, in accordance with the coding system recommended by the World Holstein Friesian Federation, known carriers and tested free animals of recessive genes determined by WHFF to be undesirable (e.g., Mulefoot, BLAD, CVM and DUMPS) and any other genetic recessives identified in the future.
   
   
7. have the capacity and willingness to identify and record, in accordance with the coding system recommended by the World Holstein Friesian Federation, known coat color transmission/carriers (e.g. red, black/red, etc.) and tested free animals.
   
   

N.B. ISAG, ICAR AND IETS have been designated by the World Holstein Friesian Federation as the source of standards within their respective areas of expertise.

WHFF-Council Recommendation (October 2006, Killarney, Ireland)