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Hips?
Aug 15, 2010 - 1:15PM
Re: How good are ya?

Kim
Positioning killed these hips. Yes, positioning would definitely change the way these hips look. Face it, poor positioning can fail your excellent dog! Shame on OFA for even accepting to look at films like these! Don't they after all have a little picture of correct positioning on the 2nd page of their application? The fact is that they accept poor films all the time because it is easier to fail the dog and have the owner pay a resubmission fee. I have no faith or respect for OFA WHATSOEVER!

So where do you send your x-rays for scoring? The last x-rays weren't sent to OFA for scoring...

This is why I always look at my x-ray pics before I send them to be scored! If I don't like the positioning of the dog I won't send them and will do another one!

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Starfish
Aug 15, 2010 - 1:49PM
Re: How good are ya?

Kim
Positioning killed these hips. Yes, positioning would definitely change the way these hips look. Face it, poor positioning can fail your excellent dog! Shame on OFA for even accepting to look at films like these! Don't they after all have a little picture of correct positioning on the 2nd page of their application? The fact is that they accept poor films all the time because it is easier to fail the dog and have the owner pay a resubmission fee. I have no faith or respect for OFA WHATSOEVER!



My feelings on the hip positioning also.....it would be very interesting to have proper films taken and submitted on the same dog and then let us know how the grading turned out.
I'm really enjoying looking at the submissions presented here! Thanks for the great thread!

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Breeder 14
Aug 15, 2010 - 2:20PM
Re: How good are ya?

Yes, this is a great teaching thread! Did I miss what Blackie's OFA ratings really were?

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Kim/Pirate
Aug 16, 2010 - 12:23PM
Re: How good are ya?

I didn't think OFA was the body who graded these dogs hips-did I miss something(a piece of the thread)?
I was under the assumption these were taken in Europe and sent in for grading there.
I've seen worse positioning on plates here in North America myself with passes and fails.

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breeder too
Aug 16, 2010 - 12:30PM
Re: How good are ya?

Hips?
So here's another one with terrible positioning... what's your thought about these one? Could better positioning have made the hips look better.. than I mean much better?
http://i946.photobucket.com/albums/ad305/Draumalands/Hip%20x-rayes/hips.jpg


These hips are scary bad and I don't think positioning would help a wit.

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Hips?
Aug 16, 2010 - 3:44PM
Re: How good are ya?

Kim/Pirate
I didn't think OFA was the body who graded these dogs hips-did I miss something(a piece of the thread)?
I was under the assumption these were taken in Europe and sent in for grading there.
I've seen worse positioning on plates here in North America myself with passes and fails.

No you didn't miss anything... these hips where graded in Europe ;)

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Labfan
Aug 18, 2010 - 3:19PM
Re: How good are ya?

This has been an educational thread. Thanks for sharing.

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I'm game
Aug 20, 2010 - 12:31PM
Re: How good are ya?

Breeder 14
Yes, this is a great teaching thread! Did I miss what Blackie's OFA ratings really were?


Sorry was away for a few days. Blackie's hips were rated as "severe". Kudos to those who saw this. He is a young dog, so these were prelims. He is a very sound dog. Will probably reshoot at 2 years just to see what we are looking at.

Excellent thread.

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