The following information is intended to answer some of the most common questions and requests that come into our Registration Department. If your answer isn’t found here, please don’t hesitate to contact us at maine@amaapc.com or 816-431-9950. Office hours are Monday – Friday 8 a.m. – 4:30 p.m.; summer hours Monday – Thursday, 8 a.m. – 4:30 p.m.; Friday 8 a.m. – 1 p.m central time.
One must be an active member in order to submit registrations and/or transfers. Memberships are $150 for adults, which do include a subscription to the Voice magazine; $50 for juniors (One is a junior until their 22nd birthday as long as they have not reached their 22nd birthday before January 1 of the current calendar year). Dues are for a calendar year (January – December). We also have available first-class shipping for the Voice for $40 per subscription. One can submit a new membership online from our website at www.maine-anjou.org by clicking on “Member Services”. Once your account has been activated, you may pay your annual dues by logging into your online account. Please note we do mail a dues reminder card in October of each year.
All members must designate their herd as either MAPP (Maine Anjou Performance Program) or BC (Breeder’s Choice). For more information visit our website at www.maine-anjou.org and open the link “Member Services - MAPP Agreement”. If choosing MAPP you must print, sign and return the Agreement in order to be placed in the MAPP program. If you do not designate your herd prior to sending work, you will automatically be enrolled in the Breeders Choice program. Members will not be placed in the MAPP program until the agreement is on file with AMAA.
Rush work is $50 per eight registrations or transfers. Like all registration work, we need complete payment before we can mail your papers. Rushed work is handled ahead of other work that is in our office; if everything is complete (registration information and payment), the rushed work will be mailed first class mail, within one to two business days from when it is submitted.
Our office does not take registrations over the phone. You may submit a registration application by mail, via our website through the online registration screen, email or by fax. Payment for registration work and transfers, must be provided upfront for all emailed and faxed work before it is completed. During the fall/winter season, please allow three weeks for turn-around on your registration work (if not a rush). A $5.00 processing fee per registration will be added if work is mailed, emailed or faxed. To avoid this fee please log into your Digital Beef account to register your animals. All dues and registration work must be paid at the time of registering. We will no longer allow account access with balances due.
Anyone exiting their account after registering online will be locked out until payment is made in full. Any registration work submitted but not paid for at the time of it is submitted must remit payment within 30 days of opening the invoice. A finance charge will then be applied. If payment is still not received within 45 days, work on the delinquent invoice will be deleted.
Any unfinished work not committed to registry within ten days will be deleted from the account and will be required to be re-entered, unless AMAA is notified prior to deletion.
Any dues renewed but not paid for will be deleted in three business days if not paid for.
Before you can register online, you must have a password set up. Passwords are created by the account holder when applying for your membership. If you have forgotten your password or need one set up, please email or call us. Password and account information will only be provided to those authorized on the account, no matter the member’s age. AMAA may request verification before releasing any information to you. Please remember passwords are case sensitive. Once logged into Digital Beef always make sure we have a current contact number, email and mailing address. You may update this information by clicking on the “Address” tab in the center of your page once you are logged into Digital Beef. Online registrations are NOT handled as rushes under normal circumstances and are processed in the order they are received.
A follow-up phone call after faxing registration work is MANDATORY in order to complete the rush process. Payment for all faxed work must be paid upfront. We do accept American Express, Discover, MasterCard or Visa for your convenience. You may call in payment or submit online payment under “Member Services” - “Pay on Account”.
We can ship your papers to you overnight; however, we will need a physical address and phone number to do so. Please contact our office for mailing options and pricing, which must be paid in advance. AMAA provides USPS 3–4-day priority and one and two Day FedEx. These fees do not include a rush fee. If you wish to add a FedEx or Priority mailing, please contact us at 816-431-9950.
As of January 1, 2014, dams and sires must be registered or must obtain a commercial number in order to register offspring. The birthdate, name and tattoo number are required to obtain a commercial number. If you do not have a tattoo number use the month and day it was born. When registering a calf, a commercial cow may be created within the registration screen. Click on the book with the arrow next to the dam field. Your current herd will be displayed. At the top of that herd list is an option to “Create a new Commercial Female”. If the sire is owned by you, click “Commercial” located under “Herd Mgmt” on the left side tool bar. Once you have a number for your commercial animal then go to “Calves” located under “Herd Mgmt” to complete your registration. If you are registering out of a sire that is not owned by you, do not create a commercial number. Please search for the animal by name or tattoo under Digital Beef – Search Animal. If the animal cannot be found please contact AMAA.
If you are registering an animal born prior to January 1, 2014 you may leave the dam or sire unregistered as long as the dam or sire is 50% to obtain the 25% minimum percentage and the animal you are registering is not a result of AI or ET.
“Other breed” pedigrees can be added to the registration of an animal for either the sire or the dam. The fee to add a bull’s pedigree is $40 and to add a female’s pedigree is $25. Please send a copy of the registration paper for each particular animal and include the proper fee. When entering a registration online, enter the registration number of the animal with the appropriate prefix to that number below. If the pedigreed animal is not in the AMAA system, it will give you an error. Please complete the registration with errors and then validate the entry to save it. AMAA will add the pedigree, complete the registration, and email you an invoice when the registration has been completed.
Prefix options: Angus-AN, Red Angus – AR, Belted Galloway – BG, Brahman- BR. Chianina – CA, Charolais – CH, Galloway- GA, Gelbvieh – GV, Hereford- HH, Polled Hereford- HP, Shorthorn – IS, Limousin – LM, Lowline – LL, Canadian Maine – MA, Red Brangus – RB, Salers – SA, Simmental – SM, Polled Shorthorn – SP, Scottish Shorthorn – SS.
A motion was passed at the Board of Directors meeting in Louisville in November 2010 to drop the Maine-Anjou sire-only stipulation regarding the registration of Maine-Anjou steers. Registerable Maine-Anjou steers can come from either side of the pedigree and must be at least 25% Maine to be eligible to register.
If you choose to register your animal as “Performance Only” it will record that animal for data purposes only. If you later decide to register a performance animal you may upgrade that animal to registered. Go to your herd and then click on performance animals. There you will see a tab that says “Register”. You may also contact AMAA to upgrade the animal. The rate to register will be based on the day it obtains a certificate not the day that it was entered, so please make sure to register them before they are over 13 months of age.
Donor Dams: Prior to registering ET calves, all donor dams must have on file with the AMAA the parentage test: GGP Bovine 100K and be tested for or free by pedigree of the following genetic defects: AM, CA, NH, DD, DS, TH and PHA. This applies to all Maine-Anjou donors, commercial donors and donors registered in other breed registries. If you are unsure if your donor meets the testing requirements, please call our office. DNA testing results may take up to 6 weeks to be processed by the lab.
AI Sires: Prior to registering ET or AI calves, all AI sires must have on file with the AMAA the parentage test: GGP Bovine 100K and be tested for or free by pedigree of the following genetic defects: AM, CA, NH, DD, DS, TH and PHA. This applies to all Maine-Anjou sires, commercial sires and sires registered in other breed registries. If you are unsure if your AI sire meets the testing requirements, please call our office. DNA testing results may take up to 6 weeks to be processed by the lab.
Bull Calves: Any bull calf registered after January 1, 2014 will have to free by pedigree or must be tested and free of TH and PHA in order to register. Once testing is on file, the registration fee will be applied to register the bull calf. A bull calf that is a carrier of TH and/or PHA result may be entered as a Foundation breeding bull and cannot be shown. Any offspring out of the carrier bull must be tested and clean of the defect in order to register (with the exception of steers).
All calves that are not free by pedigree or tested free of the following genetics defects: AM, CA, NH, DD, DS, TH and PHA will be listed as “Possible” on Digital Beef and their registration papers.
Note: Registrations will not be completed until all required testing is on file with AMAA.
If transferring an animal that is already registered, the transfer must be filled on the back of the original registration paper (please include the date of sale). When transferring a female of breeding age, we request that breeding information be submitted. Complete information with dates and names of sires is required. PLEASE NOTE that the seller is REQUIRED to be an ACTIVE MEMBER when sending transfers. If the seller is NOT active and the buyer sends the transfer, then the paper will be held until the seller has paid their dues.
Please refer to our ‘Percentage and Upgrading’ Chart for mating combinations and resulting percentages of progeny. NOTE that 25% is our lowest percentage to register; Maintainers are 25% to 62.5% (green registration papers); higher percentage animals are 75% - 100% (brown registration papers). A percentage chart may be obtained on our website under “Digital Beef/Registrations”.
MAINE ANGUSWe try very hard to handle all registrations in a timely manner with as few errors as possible. In the same token, we appreciate you taking time to look over your application to be sure everything is complete. Please review this checklist prior to mailing or faxing to our office.
Please make sure take a copy of your registration work prior to submitting to AMAA. If any information is incomplete when we receive the work, we do try to contact breeders for corrections. Emails are usually sent if information is missing so please make sure to check your email. Timeliness in responding to phone or e-mail messages in order to complete the registration work is appreciated. We are here to serve the membership and encourage you to contact the office if we can be of assistance in any way.
