OFA! X-rays... Opinions please? - Page 1

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I would like to hear your opinion about this hips? Good or bad?
 

Pelvis should be straighter, stifles should be rotated inward more so that the femurs are completely straight, but not too bad a film overall. Was the dog awake or sedated for these? Age of dog?

Femoral head coverage is good and the ball is well-seated in the socket; could be some thickening to the left femoral neck but that could also be an artifact of the legs not being positioned 
correctly. Wouldn't swear to it, but think there is the possibility of transitional vertebrae present. 

Assuming the dog is 2 yrs of age, would expect them to grade out as Good.


 

Thanks hexe.. you seem to know about this thing.. yes, the girl is two years old:)
Are you compering with pictures of your own?


Love to hear more opinions...

everything looks well formed & well seated to me.  i would be happy with
these hips :)
pjp

Thanks! Does anyone know if it always takes2-3 weeks? Has it happend that they are faster at OFA? Im soooo nervous!=)

In the past when I have done OFA's.. I call OFA about 1.5-2 weeks after I mailed them and they usually will be able to tell me the results over the phone.

Beatles, no, I wasn't comparing to my own films,  but rather to the OFA samples & diagrams as references. My experience has been the same as Jyl's--you can call them after about 2 weeks and they'll give you verbal results. 

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Best guess from me -  OFA fair, maybe borderline or mild, due to the left hip not being seated at least one half in the socket and there appears to be some thickening of the neck on that side. Let us know what OFA says.

OFA good enough!!  Those hips should be good enough for the dog to live a long and happy life.  Environmental factors play a huge role in the skeletal and physical development of dogs.  The dog food companies don't want to admit this because they would need to do tests to prove that "Royal corn in a sack" is as good for dog's hips as a balanced raw diet with low carbohydrates and based on meat and fat.  They would lose and then they would all need to spend money on tests to prove the efficacy and safety of their corn in a sack dog food products.  Add in environmental factors like proper exercise and sufficient outdoor exercise to give the dog a strong body and mind then the stupidity of basing the dogs future on a flawed hip score system should become obvious.  Blaming everything on genetics is an old game invented by the cigarette companies to prove that lung cancer was genetic and that cigarettes are good for you.  A huge number of commercial and corporate interests want to convince the public that all of their health problems and their animals health problems are genetic thus relieving themselves of the obligation for proving the safety and efficacy of their products and squashing lawsuits.  I have never seen a peer reviewed hip study in dogs using raw versus dry kibble dog food or one in which all the dogs got 4 hours or more of free running exercise per day.  All the commercial interests are aligned to blame every immune disorder, bad hip, or cancer on the genetics of the dog or human when in fact science knows that 90% of human cancer cases are environmental and only 10% are totally genetic in origin.  

Yes I am so afraid of that blitzen... but do they measure both each or do the better hip gets a mild too cause of the bad??