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    GWPs also come in lighter and heavier set lines, and a decent one will catch and dispatch fox quite efficiently. Maybe the GWPs in the UK are different than the ones here in Germany. GWPs on average are said to be hardier and sharper.
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    GSP/Greyhound crosses are quite popular in the sprint and dryland disciplines of sleddog racing, and I would not be aware of massive heart problems with these dogs/crosses and they would definitely crop up there.
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    Goat milk definitely contains lactose. Maybe you can buy lactose free goat milk. Hard to make cheese without some kind of sugar…
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    Linebreeding, Inbreeding are techniques for the amateurs, that were state-of-the-art in the early 1900s. The real pros use genetic selection breeding programmes, less guesswork, better results.
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    Thanks a lot, @sandymere! That’s the stuff I am looking for. If you have more keep em coming.
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    Just a quick question mainly for @sandymere (couldn’t reach you via PM) Do you know some good resources regarding the history and working/hunting use of Galgos? Books, magazine articles, videos. Anything would be fine. Thanks in advance!
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    Keep us posted! Will be interesting to see which direction you choose to go.
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    If she keep’s excelling at her job do you plan on breeding with her?
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    Yeah, I have the same impression while reading the Saluki book of Terence Clark.
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    Me neither. As long as you breed true to type and the type means „good hare/gazelle/fox hunter“ it is even better to have a broad genetic base.
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    Is Morocco prime Saluki country?
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    Probably easier said than done…to be fair, so far I am just toying with the idea. So maybe it is easier than I think.
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    Thats a type I really like. Looks really square? Or is that the camera angle?
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    Nice to hear, from what I hear to much inbreeding going on within the coursing breds, but thats personal preference. I would rather go back to the source, if possible…
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    I am reading the book from Terence Clark about Salukis at the moment and in there he has some stunning pictures of smooth salukis. They look more like a salxgrey. Crossing something like that with a collie/kelpie would be really interesting to see. I would imagine that they would be fast enough for almost anything and would have stamina to spare. I would love to go to the source and getting one of these smooths over here, since I really do not dig the feathering…
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    That’s just not true. It is not all the evidence that points into this direction. There are studies that show an influence. And as I have posted before it is really hard to do proper genetic testing because we are hard pressed to find „real“ dingos that did not hybridize in the past. What I say is, that the hypothesis is wrong, since you are genetically comparing dingo dog hybrids (feral) with dingo dog hybrids (kelpie). And thats a problem we have in science, if your hypothesis is flawed than your experiment is basically worthless. And as OldPhil said we see the finished product today an
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    These methods seem to be highly inaccurate and super subjective. As far as I have read.
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    Because they just look at some single loci. That’s just not enough. And proto-dogs probably already migrated with us all over the world so it is hardly surprising to find scandinavian wolf genes in Dingos.
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    I don’t buy that. ince all dogs have a common wolf ancestor and since the dingo probably once was at least a proto-dog the observation of scandinavian wolf genes is rather uninteresting. All in all I do not like the study design of the linked paper.
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    I think this is not so easy. For proper testing we would need Dingo genetic material from pre-european colonialisation to have „pure“ dingo genes to compare against. Your own post further down shows dingo hybridisationen with dogs is a huge „problem“ and is so for probably quite some time, which means there is no genetic gold sample. See also: doi:10.1111/j.1365-2907.2006.00086.x Then you have the problem of reference groups and that dingo influence for most Kelpies happened multiple generations ago which does not make it easier to proof. I would not trust any genetic study at the m
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    He even went so far as to do genetic tests that in his opinion proofed the Dingo influence. In my opinion this is this is inconclusive since it is extremely hard to proof the influence from a genetic point of view. There is apparently a stigma regarding Dingos so at least in the past it was a big no no to say that you use Dingo crosses for stock work or even have them around.
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    It is a good read and Bill Robertson is clearly putting in the work. I also liked his documentary, although I have to say I like the book more since it gives way more depth.
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    That’s my sport with my little lurcher. Super fun! Better than any eMTB. The dog in the video runs a bit odd, but seems to have fun…
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    Sorry for hijacking this thread, but I think I have seen your collies on the ACD Thread from a couple weeks ago and wonder what type of collie they are? I am reading a book on the history of the Kelpie breed and there are a lot of collie strains mentioned, that are probably not around anymore? ORIGINS OF THE AUSTRALIAN KELPIE | kelpiehistory WWW.KELPIEHISTORY.COM From the north of Scotland to the outback of Australia and everywhere in between, wherever contributions to the evolution of the Kelpie breed occurred, Bill and...
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    Nice looking bitch! Are you considering to breed here? If yes what type of cross would you fancy?
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