So I have just discovered the wonderful world of MyKC!

Whilst looking through some of my breeds top dogs, I couldn't find one single dog that has been eye tested? Of course the hips and elbows are all done, but not eyes?

In my breed they test for congenital conditions, so it's a once in a lifetime test, not annually.

I have just paid to have my lad eye tested but I'm wondering if it was really worth it now as nobody else seems to bother.

Why is it so unpopular? Or does it not get listed on MyKC?

Is it a required test in your breed or recommended - MyKC doesn't report on recommended tests - in my breed there are no required tests but most are eyetested annually and none of this is reported on MyKC.

It depends on your breed, and if it is on any official scheme. If it isn't, the results won't get listed. If I go to eye test my Papillons, the results are not published. I still did it, and many others with me. We have now got a DNA test for PRA and the KC have just recently agreed to publish those results. So my dogs DNA tests show up in MyKC but not the general eye tests.

My main breed BSD have their eye tests listed as they are on the official scheme for HC.

MyKC doesn't report on recommended tests

Yes they do -it's all down to whether it is an official scheme for the breed or not. Hence DNA for PRA1 in Papillons is not even mentioned as a recommended test but is still listed on MyKC.

Just checked my dogs information on there and it does record BVA results and updates them when retested also

Depends on the test. MRD in one of my breeds is under the MRD list which doesn't show on individual dogs when checking MYKC however the KC still see have a separate list for this condition for breeds which should have this test

they don't list eye testing in my breed. Wish they would as it would make looking up dogs much easyer.

>MyKC doesn't report on recommended tests

That is not the case. 

Elbow scoring is not recommended in my breed or seen as an issue (out of hundreds of dogs tested in Scandinavia and USA all bar around 6 with a score of 1, have had perfect Elbow scores).

As one of my breeding who was grossly overweight at 6 months was given a tentative/suspected diagnosis of ED I had his litter sister Elbow Scored, and it is on her records and MYKC.

The only time eye tests won't show I believe is if there are no known hereditary conditions officially known in that breed and your testing just in case.

If your breed has a known condition and testing appears on registration documents then results will also appear on MYKC.  Unfortunately in some breeds, among some breeders uptake of Health tests is poor.

For example in the USA the number one worst breed fr Hip Dysplasia statistically is the Bulldog, yet virtually none are Hip Scored here in the UK.

In my main breed, Bassets, Gonioscopy is all the rage at the moment.  In other words, most of the bigger breeders are getting their hounds tested.   In the latest Quarter, the KCSB Breed Records Suppment list only one affected, with 14 passes which is significantly up on earlier testing.    Obviously this is good, but it amuses me to see some breeders advertising their stock as 'glaucoma clear'.    Who would remotely breed from an animal with glaucoma!!    Obviously Goniodysgenesis unaffected means a lot, even if this is still just the 'predisposing abnormality to primary angle-closure glaucoma' and a fail doesn't necessarily mean the hound will go on to develop glaucoma!    And he might develop this condition later on, for other reasons too.

The KC only lists hip and  elbow scores for my breed and will not list eye tests as we are not a schedule A or B breed, don't record heart test scores ( our breed has no breed scheme but are tested under boxer scheme ) and don't record any of the DNA test specific to the breed ( a couple available for very rare disorders)

K