Top Breeder Ethics - Reply to Wienerau - Page 6

Palf, I guess it depends on your outlook for the future of the breed in this country. I understand where you're coming from, but I myself would choose to support a breeder in the US rather than one in Europe.

I said you have a better chance of getting the best hips by not using mildly dysplastic dogs in a breeding program

Hi to all. I`m right now building up a database for our own breed & kennel. Here are the results as far I can comment it right now. I¿ve been hacking all our litters (sorry, as Walter didn¿t start breeding before 1958 I ain¿t got no earlier stats and I don¿t want to comment other breeders)in to a database, and you know what, most of the litters comming out of two "noch zugelassen" ends up in fast-normal or normal. The problems starts, if you don¿t take care of this problem in the next generation. If you breed a dog with fast-normal or normal, where the both parents have "noch-zugelassen" to an other dog with the same background you get trouble with the hips. It¿s amazing, but as far I can read our pedigrees, this problems jumps over one generation. Perhaps that¿s one of the probs. You can¿t just look at the parents, you have to go futher back in your bloodline to find out if you got some dogs, that may be a bit "difficult". If you breed two dogs with a1-. normal, where the grandparents had noch-zugelassen, it¿s perhaps gonna cause you trouble. So you¿ll have to take a look at the grandparents, if both sides have to many "noch-zugelassen" I think you should be careful. This is no fact stated by a vet, it¿s just what I can read out of almost 50 years own breeding