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Colorado Mountain Dog Registry Farm Letters

The Colorado Mountain Dog Registry has an annual Farm Fee which is $45 a year. You can purchase or update by clicking on our store link above.

Farms who are raising CMDs register farm names and choose three to four letters or numbers for their farm. For instance, Crack O’ Noon is CNK. Farm letters are the beginning of the registration number of all pups born on that farm, and those numbers are permanent. Also, when a pup is named, It is preceded with those farm letters in the database. For instance, a pup born at Crack O’ Noon may have a registration number that looks like this — CNK021004G3. And its name might be CNK Rover. If CNK sells Rover to farm ABC, then the dog can be registered as CNK Rover Of ABC.

Birth farms are designated by the birth farm letters in the front of the name and registration numbers, and those are permanent. Owner farms may use their farm letters as a suffix after the dog’s name, and suffixes are transferable. UUU indicates a dog not from a registered farm (unknown). FD (foundation dogs), are often UUU. UUX indicates a known Colorado Mountain Dog, not from CMDR registered farm.

This setup makes it easy to search the dogs you own by entering your farm letters into the database. All dogs, whether they were born at your place, or you bought them, will come up in the database when you search, and they will appear on the breeder’s page in the database. In this way, keeping your database info correct is easy. If you find a discrepancy, you can contact the registry and get things corrected.