Sentences with phrase «dysplastic offspring»

The statistics published by the OFFA show that breeding two dogs with «Good» hips together would produce 10 % dysplastic offspring.

For example, while it is possible for any Golden with normal hips to produce dysplastic offspring, a Golden Retriever with normal hips from a litter where the majority of its siblings have hip dysplasia may be at particularly high risk to produce dysplastic offspring.

Note that this might be an overly rosy assessment because of incomplete, biased data; if bad scores are not submitted, the fraction of dysplastic offspring will be an underestimate.

Breeders should provide registration numbers from the Orthopedic Foundation for Animals to prove them free of the disease even though dogs with clear x-rays can produce dysplastic offspring.

Normal dogs can breed and yield dysplastic offspring as the condition may skip generations.

However, even two parents certified clear of hip dysplasia can produce dysplastic offspring.

Dr. Donald Patterson, chairman of Medical Genetics at University of PA School of Veterinary Medicine, states that some dogs with radiographically normal hips but a large number of hidden dysplasia - producing genes, if mated together, will produce at least some dysplastic offspring.

Not exact matches

It has been found and is common knowledge, that one can mate two parents with OFA rated excellent hips and have offspring that are dysplastic; or mate two dysplastic parents and get pups with normal to excellent hips.

Excellent hips may produce dysplastic and affected parents may produce sound offspring.

Through manipulating the genes in this breeding scheme, he is trying to identify hip dysplasia - causing genes in the normal and dysplastic crossbred offspring.