Re: RC: CID

[Lif Strand <fasterhorses@gilanet.com>]

Joan - it's too bad the stud was gelded if he was a high quality
breeding animal otherwise - there is no worry about CID if everyone is
honest and open about having carrier animals.  It's not as if it *has*
to be fatal (if only one parent is a carrier), and after all, it's not
actually a disease that is contagious!

All breeding animals carry some assortment of undesirable recessive
genes (and some undesirable dominants as well!).  As long as breeders
are aware of them, breeders just avoid crossing to animals with them -
or, picks an animal to cross to that has genes that will counter the
undesired ones.  For instance, if a breeder  doesn't want "high white"
or lots of chrome, and you know that there is a grandparent that
strongly passes high white, you can assume that your horse could have
those genes, so you wouldn't breed to a highly chromed horse - but you
wouldn't geld or spay your animal because it had genes for lots of
white!  Nobody thinks twice about breeding this way, so it seems to me
it follows that  if everyone was open about the presence of recessive
CID in their breeding animal, it wouldn't be a big deal at all.  Lif

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