Natural History

Posted in dog breeding | Tagged Afghan hound, DesertWindHounds, Halfghan, halfghan hound, saluki | 3 Comments

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1. on January 4, 2012 at 12:08 pm M.R.S.

   Jess’ description of back-crossing is exactly how the Kennel Club (UK) at one time accepted dogs with an outcross in the pedigree, as with “interbred” retrievers 3 generations backcross and it could be registered as purebred.

   Even the AKC now has a program of “conditional registration” which could be used similarly, were one so inclined.

   
   
   • on January 4, 2012 at 2:28 pm Jess

     The UK kennel club has reopened their B register. Once the dog is accepted I think it’s five generations before the progeny end up with full registration (don’t quote me on that.) That is how the LUA Dals were registered.

     I’m not sure about conditional registration with AKC. My reading of it is not a dog with a mixed or unknown background, but a purebred with a pedigree where parentage cannot be confirmed by DNA. I will have to look.

     
     
     • on January 5, 2012 at 11:58 am M.R.S.

       The difference in how many generations of backcross is required, is likely that “interbred” was retriever x retriever (KC considered all retrievers as “varieties” rather than as different “breeds”) and a cross-bred, as with the LUA Dalmatians, is outcross of a different breed. This distinction, of course, can vary widely depending on what breeds may be used. Dalmatian x Pointer is rather different it would seem, than the Boxer x Corgi cross that was done, for instance.

       
       

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