Sentences with phrase «breed quality offspring»

Unfortunately most pet shops keep puppies in poor conditions, and are supporting backyard puppy mills / puppy farms, where the breeders are more interested in dollars rather than helping to breed quality offspring.

Not exact matches

When these efforts are combined with pedigree analysis, the results will yield quality foundation stock whose offspring can be saved to further improve a breeding program.

Little or no thought is given to the health, temperment, or quality of the breeding dogs or offspring.

A lower - risk offspring that exceeds the higher - risk parent in quality should replace the higher - risk parent in the breeding program.

The costs of most purebred dogs, or really any type of purposely bred animal, are that legitimate, conscientious breeders perform a myriad of genetic tests on the parents before breeding so as to ascertain the quality of offspring being produced.

The aim is to replace the carrier breeding - animal with a normal - testing offspring that equals or exceeds it in quality.

Using relative - risk assessment as a tool, breeders should replace higher - risk breeding dogs with lower - risk offspring that are equal to or better than their parents in quality.

By using relative - risk assessment to breed him to a female that is at low risk of being a carrier, you can prevent affected offspring, and select a quality son for replacement.

In the early 1900s, this breed was used indiscriminately in breeding programs with the Persian cat to improve on the quality of the coats in the offspring.

You can hold off breeding and get a few annual eye exams done first, then select mates that don't carry the mutation in hopes of producing clear offspring of good quality to replace the dog with the mutation.

In the case of recessive mutations, affected dogs — those with two copies of the mutation — should not be bred if there are serious quality - of - life or financial issues because all offspring will have at least one copy of the mutation.

Stud dogs or bitches who produce offspring of consistently poor quality in their first two breedings have no value as breeding stock and should not be bred again.

Because of the severe quality of life impacts of this disease and the long - term emotional and financial burden care for an epileptic dog can place on owners, first - step relatives (parents, offspring, and full or half siblings) of an epileptic dog should not be bred.

Polydactyl cats without dewclaws are disqualified from shows but may safely produce normal - footed show - quality offspring which can be used in breeding.

Stud dogs or brood bitches who produce offspring of consistently poor quality or with genetic problems known to be inherited in the breed are therefore of no value as breeding stock and should not be used again, except in breedings directed towards test mating or health research.

Worse yet, they may have deliberately bred a mom to one of her now adult offspring, or a brother to a sister, thinking that the puppies will have the best qualities of both parents.

• Not knowingly repeat a breeding of any pair of individuals who, although free from a hereditary defects themselves, have produced multiple afflicted offspring with hereditary defects that affect the quality of life of their offspring.

Once you have selected the potential male dogs based on all the breed qualities you prefer, then rank the dogs based on their genetic potential to produce offspring with good hip and elbow conformation and on their inbreeding coefficients and the accuracy of the breeding values.