I know in the dairy world, at least here in the states there is registered and grade animals. Both are cows both make milk it's just the registered animals are higher quality and gave pedigrees behind them. There could also be he possibility of this being the same in the ray world. If you want to register your rays you could and if you don't you don't have to it just won't raise the value and you couldn't be 100% confident of he rays bloodline.
The grade (unregistered) cows are just cows and less valuable then the registered cows. These would be the rays you buy a lfs that are less valuable like retics and Motoros. This would be a simple fix for the unregistered rays. They would be more affordable for everyone and still as pretty but for those who want to know if it's a pure ray or not they could not be confident, just like you can't be now.
In pedigree cows there are 100% registered cows that are the original pure Holsteins. Then any other holstien can be registered as a 50% cow as long as the sire (dad) of the cow can be identified as a 100% registered bull. These animals then threw the generations of their calves can ultimately max out their registrations at 99%. This signifies to the owner that there is the possibility of another breed of cow being mixed in the lineage of the cow at some point like a jersey or brown Swiss. This would work with pure rays but hybrids it would just be a matter of tracking their lineage.
This system could easily be transferred to rays although we need to know exactly how we would be chipping identifying each ray. In cows we use ear tags paired with a picture of the calf when it is born on its registration paper so we can show the pattern on the cow as their patterns never change so it's easy to match even an adult cow with a picture of it as a day old calf. This would work with rays whose patterns never change but we would have to come up with a system of identifying rays whose patterns dramatically change as they get older like hybrids.
The task of registering rays would initially be a monumental task that would take a long time to achieve, but it could be done if the details were worked out. The workload would ease up once the initial wave was caught up on. Does anyone know how they register the arows in Asia? Their system could aid if we were to pursue the idea of registering rays.
If we were to pursue the idea of registering rays I would be on board to aid in the establishment of the system and registration.
It would be very difficult I must say but I do believe it is obtainable.
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