This includes countless Golden Retriever Club of America (G.R.C.A.) recognition's of top
producing sires and dams.
Not exact matches
Seeing puppies from either
sire or
dam or both can give you insight into what type of puppies they have
produced before,
and are likely to
produce again although this may not always be possible nor practical.
To accomplish this Bell says that breeds with small populations (LE list) need a mentoring program for their puppy buyers because healthy gene pools require genetic diversity
and the careful selection of
sires and dams in order to
produce the desired traits
and avoid the deleterious mutations that accompany unwanted traits
and diseases.
The
sires and dams that consistently
produce such versatile offspring shall be recognized by the Labrador Retriever Club by offering a Versatile Producer of Merit award.
(Example from the pedigree: Half the
sire's carrier risk is.0625
and half the
dam's carrier risk is.0838, so the chance of
producing an affected dog is.0625 x.0838 =.0052 or 0.52 %.)
A family picture helps breeders select
sires and dams that are not only free of disease but have
produced puppies in the past that are free of disease.
When breeders want to
produce such small dogs, they choose for mating
dam and sire, which are both undersized.
In order for a litter to
produce black puppies both the
sire and dam must carry the black gene.
Test breeding of epileptic
dams and sires done by veterinary researchers have
produced incidences of epilepsy in the offspring ranging from between 38 % (affected to nonaffected) to 100 % (breeding together of two affected dogs).
The word «Pedigree» means a dog whose parents
and lineage are all of the same pedigree breed, i.e. a Cavalier
produced purely from generations of cavaliers on both the mother's (
Dam)
and father's (
sire) side without contamination from other breeds.
To
produce parti yorkie puppies, both the
dam and the
sire, MUST carry the piebald gene.
Purchase of puppies
produced by the
sires and dams with the lower breeding values will result in puppies with better hips
and elbows than if I based breeding decisions on hip
and elbow radiographs alone.