Jessz57 - better hide! I will come and steal money out of your purse and put bleach in your potted plants! Now that I don't think breeders are totally evil I am wretched and untrustworthy!
Can I ask you if you would like breeding of all animals- every species to be stopped, completely ceased? Then there would be no more domestic animals within a couple decades. Doesn't make much sense to me, sorry.
Jennicat, dog and horse breeding is MUCH bigger investment and people have as lot of choices when it comes to a stud. You won't be getting any animals sold without genetic testing on your Quarter Horses or German Shepherds. Just because someone breeds, and I repeat myself again, does not mean they breed every female they get a hold of. Females have 1 litter, 2 at most. It is unlikely with careful watch of the current descendants and who they are bred to that no major defect is going to crop up.
Teddies, texels, skinnies, abbys, are all mutations, some are stronger than others. I didn't meet anyone who breed texels or teddies. Americans, peruvians, silkies, and abbies were the bulk.
Of course they don't keep everything they have produced, with even a large amount of room that is a lot of the same gene pool. I'd say about 15 senior pigs were from the TSW line that has produced 2 litters a year over the last 10 years considering the oldest was 10.. youngest was 6 in that line, (or 7 can't remember) So lets say 9 pups a year (being generous) for 5 years, gives you 45 animals. So 33% of the animals are still alive, and with her goal of 40% of the pups kept for evaluation, she lost two or three over that course of time and they were necropsied. I've got what they passed from written down, off the top of my head one died from an inner ear infection, one from pneumonia, can't remember the other one, can't find my notebook. The numbers are slightly off since she probably had less pups in a year and I am unsure if it was 15, but it was close to that area (could be 13 or 17)
Kind of sad to see so many people who love guinea pigs want them to go extinct. How about dogs and horses? We have machines for their jobs now, right?  |