NO LAURA what I said was you will NEVER be allowed to use ANY of my stud dogs.
Cathy J. Gish Laura Trunk wrote: > > What possible difference would it make to you if not everyone post their > > information publicly. None of my dogs appear in your pedigrees now and > won't > > likely ever appear there so my testing information is not necessary to you > or > > anyone else that is not using my dogs. > > Are you saying that none of the dogs in my dog's pedigrees are in your dog's > pedigrees? You don't have any Telvara, Homerbrent, Salador or Kindrum dogs > in your dog's pedigrees? > > Polygenic traits are caused by a dog's GENOTYPE--the dog's ENTIRE genetic > make-up--NOT just the approx. half of the genes that cause the dog's > phenotype. Since half of those genes are not seen, we don't know what they > are without looking further. The only way to figure out some of a dog's > geneotype is to know as MUCH as we can about ALL the relatives as possible. > > If a dog develops MVD at age 8--that is that dog's PHENOTYPICAL expression > of the approx. half the genes that dog inherited. There are still almost > 50% of the genes that dog carries and can give to offspring for that trait > that we don't know about. BUT, if you know when his grandparents, > great-grandparents, siblings, aunts, uncles, cousins developed MVD you would > have a MUCH better idea of what that dog's genotype. Say you were able to > figure out there were 100 somewhat closely related dogs to your dog. If > many of those dogs had their MVD status posted somewhere (when they > developed MVD) and you found out that 90% of those posted had developed MVD > by age 5--there would be NO surprise when considerably more than half that > dog's offspring developed MVD by age 5--which was NOT your intention when > you bred to him since HE was clear at age 8! Or vice-versa--if a dog > developed MVD at age 5 1/2 and you got information on 100 of it's relatives > and found out 90% of them were MVD clear till age 8 or 9--you wouldn't be > surprised that most of hs offspring were clear considerably longer than that > dog. There are no surprises when you breed genotypically--the surprises > come because you are breeding phenotypically and not paying to the other > half of those hidden genes. > > So the more information one has about all the related dogs in a pedigree, > the more one knows about that dog's genotype and the better breeding > decisions one can make for that dog. > > The status of ALL your dogs IS important to my breeding program! > > Laura Trunk > Roycroft Cavaliers > > ========================================================= > "Magic Commands": > to stop receiving mail for awhile, click here and send the email: > mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?body=SET%20CKCS-L%20NOMAIL > to start it up gain click here: > mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?body=SET%20CKCS-L%20MAIL > > E-mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] for assistance. > Search the Archives... http://apple.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ckcs-l.html > > All e-mail sent through CKCS-L is Copyright 1999 by its original author. -- http://www.FlyingColorsCavaliers.com ========================================================= "Magic Commands": to stop receiving mail for awhile, click here and send the email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?body=SET%20CKCS-L%20NOMAIL to start it up gain click here: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?body=SET%20CKCS-L%20MAIL E-mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] for assistance. Search the Archives... http://apple.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ckcs-l.html All e-mail sent through CKCS-L is Copyright 1999 by its original author.
