Sentences with phrase «breeding decisions»

We know that breeders are concerned about the age of disease onset, and the meaning and implications of late onset when making breeding decisions.

Eventually, discovery of the mutations that contribute to these disorders will enable the most accurate breeding decisions based on causal mutations.

With it you can make better breeding decisions for yourself, your dogs and their eyes.

We are now offering a genetic test which allows owners to determine their dog's status for this mutation in order to diagnose affected dogs and to guide future breeding decisions.

Really gives a good explanation of responsible breeding decision making.

An excellent book for anyone concerned about the influence of breeding decisions on the long term health and welfare of dogs.

This makes it much more difficult to make intelligent breeding decisions.

Doing so would have prevented even the most responsible breeders and owners from working with their veterinarians to make appropriate breeding decisions about the health and well - being of an individual animal.

Whole family information is very important for a breeder to know, and to base breeding decisions around.

Making good breeding decisions requires knowing the health of as much of the immediate family as possible.

DNA testing aids breeding decisions aimed at avoiding the occurrence of disease.

The use of these guidelines can assist breeders in making objective breeding decisions for genetic - disease management, while continuing their breeding lines.

There are a variety of issues that need to be taken into consideration before firm breeding decisions are made.

Although these tests are not an exact science, it does provide us with a tool by which to make certain breeding decisions.

Make breeding decisions with the best interests of the breed in mind.

Unfortunately this approach lacked reliability and it did not capture the kinds of information needed to make the better breeding decisions.

Such a test would help breeders identify carrier animals, so that responsible breeding decisions can be made.

And, of course, knowing early on whether your dog has hip dysplasia con help you make appropriate breeding decisions.

Additionally, breeders will have more accurate information to make breeding decisions.

Determining the cause is essential for making appropriate treatment choices, and to assist in breeding decisions.

If the disease is uncommon, as with the progressive rod - cone degeneration (PRCD) form of Progressive Retinal Atrophy in Australian Shepherds, or if use of a test and careful breeding decisions have markedly reduced the frequency of a formerly common mutation (think what could be done with CEA in Collies,) testing could then be confined to only those dogs with known family history of the disease or with relatives that have been DNA tested as carriers.

ASHGI established IDASH to provide breeders and owners with specific pedigree - based health information and to enable breeders to make more informed breeding decisions as regards health and unwanted inherited traits in the Australian Shepherd.

«This data will help us to better direct breeding decisions and thus boost the productivity and profitability of the northern beef industry,» Professor Moore said.

The GOBii project's annual hackathon united 25 software developers, bioinformaticians, computational biologists, and application specialists on a week - long mission: not only were they focused on developing many improvements to their genomic data management system and key breeding decision support tools, but also on gaining as much face - to - face time with each other as possible.

Once standards for tail appearance are developed, breeders need to take a common sense approach to how they prioritize what is — with the important exception of NBTxNBT matings — a cosmetic issue when making breeding decisions least the tail start wagging the breed.

This can help owners to identify if their dog may need special care or training requirements and could help to develop tools to enable breeders make sensible breeding decisions in the future.»

At present however, breeding decisions need to be made on the following basis as suggested by the OFA:

Preliminary identification of genetic variants was accomplished, which will help to guide future studies with the ultimate goal of being able to develop genetic testing tools to inform the Connemara pony community and potentially breeding decisions to decrease the disease prevalence.

Breeding frequency: The PPA breeding frequency provision would have created a precedent in the Animal Welfare Act (AWA) by transferring the authority for breeding decisions from breeders to the federal government.

, the questions you need to ask them, and the papers you need to see to make sure your dog isn't going to inherit genetic problems passed down through the generations of poor breeding decisions...

The book provides tools, techniques, and tables to assist the breeder in analyzing their pedigrees and in making educated breeding decisions.

But there was still a major flaw in the OFA system, one that affected thousands of breeders who strived to make intelligent breeding decisions based on reliable genetic data.

Endeavor to gain personal knowledge of the temperament and health of every dog they breed, or to which they breed to gather information about which to base future breeding decisions.

The purpose of the OFA Eye Certification Registry (ECR) is to provide dog breed information regarding canine eye diseases so that they may make informed breeding decisions in an effort to produce healthier dogs.

It enables breeders to make informed and responsible breeding decisions based upon reliable information with the hope of reducing the incidence of health problems in the Tibetan Terrier.

The Health Committee recognizes that Cardiac may be an area of concern which we wish to monitor and by encouraging a broad base of cardiac testing within our breed we hope to assist owners in making prudent breeding decisions and to gain more data with which to judge the extent of any problem which may exist.

The results of good breeding decisions can save you lots of the time, money, and pure heartache that comes from poor health, poor quality and unhappy puppy buyers.

This information is used in Sweden to make breeding decisions for some populations of dogs, so the results are available for thousands of dogs.

First pioneered by cattle scientists earlier this decade — there is an actual field called «bovine functional genomics» — genomic selection capitalizes on computing power and the large number of markers now available to rapidly make breeding decisions based on every gene influencing a trait, not just a few.»