The following is based on an excerpt from the 1999 edition of The Total German Shepherd Dog by Fred Lanting, and may not be reproduced without approval. © 2003. Contact the principal author at for permission to quote. Some of the following charts and calculations have been contributed by a geneticist friend, John B. Cole, …
Return to Part 1 Adding the Row ‘Emma’ Now that we have added a second row to form a column, a comment is in order that will greatly reduce your labor. Look ahead to the completed Table 3e, for a moment. If you draw a diagonal line down the matrix from the cell Edmund-Edmund to …
Return to Part 2 In Part 2, we were in the middle of a discussion of inbreeding’s dependence on relationship. You need to read Parts 2 and 3 in close consecutive timing. The following is a continuation of that subject. Let us say, for the sake of argument, that we are thinking about mating Emma …
There has been some heated discussion recently (late 2005) about clubs in the UK, USA, and Australasia adhering to the rules of the SV, the perpetual extending of the SV’s “deadlines” to conform to world Standards, and allied topics. A Körung classification is required for registrable breeding in Germany, and it has always been encouraged …
Breeders often talk about inbreeding and outcrossing as though they were the only possibilities — and generally with negative comments about the latter. There are other possibilities, and I have long been a proponent of assortative mating. It is not a theoretical concept that doesn’t work in practice; I …
The title of this article stems from a discussion list or website group in the U.K. with the name “Let’s Talk Breeding”. One of its subscribers said she couldn’t “sit by and listen to foolishness without speaking up.” While the forum is admirably open-ended, “designed to allow all sides of …