American Kennel Club and AKC Canine Health Foundation Release Podcast on Canine Reproduction – Thursday, June 19, 2008
The American Kennel Club and the AKC Canine Health Foundation are pleased to release the next podcast in the series. In this podcast, Dr. Lin Kauffman, BS, DVM, a reproductive specialist at Iowa State University, discusses the reasons for using artificial insemination when breeding, and also some of the pitfalls of performing Ceasarean sections. Read More
The Canine Health Information Center (CHIC)
Providing a source of health information for owners, breeders, and scientists that will assist in breeding healthy dogs. Bouviers were enrolled in CHIC in 2007. Read More
About Inbreeding
What does it Mean – How Is It Calculated
Published in the Summer 2008 Dirty Beards Quarterly, Volume 18, Number 2
There Is A Very Good Reason Why Individuals May Mean Something Slightly Different When Using The Word “Inbreeding” Read More
For the Betterment of the Breed
Published in the Summer 2008 Dirty Beards Quarterly, Volume 18, Number 2
“For the betterment of the breed.” This phrase, so often voiced to explain the decision to plan a litter and the choice of sire and dam, is an overused and too frequently an inappropriate statement. Most often the motivation for planning a litter does not take into consideration the overall health of the breed population. Rather, it is based on much narrower objectives. Read More
Banking to Benefit the Bouvier
The CHIC DNA Repository collects and stores samples of canine DNA, together with corresponding genealogical and phenotypic information, to facilitate future research and testing for reducing the incidence of inherited disease in dogs. Read More
Funding Request
Funding Request for the American Bouvier des Flandres Club and Bouvier Health Foundation
November 8, 2007
Pending Grant No. 747: The Mapping and Characterization of Mutations Responsible for Canine Glaucoma Principal Investigator(s): Elizabeth Giuliano, DVM, MS, DACVO, University of Missouri, Columbia Read More
SNP Chips
SNP (Pronounced “snip”) Chips
What are they and why are they so important?
SNP stands for Single-Nucleotide Polymorphism Read More