Good afternoon,

I am looking for advice from breeders.

My girl is a large breed with a breed average hip score of 12.

Both her parents have been scored one total is 9 and one total is 8.

I have just got my girls results and they were 11/8 so total 19 elbows however are 0/0

She is a lovely dog moves well. Would she be ok to be paired with a dog with a low score?

It was just my local vets that did the X-rays, would it be worth going to an expert like southern canine and sending to Australia for another opinion.

Thank you

you may struggle to sell the pups.
when I last bought a breed where hip scores were a thing I would not have considered one with a parent with a high score.
there are many pups out there with parents with excellent scores so no way would I risk it

it depends on how experienced your vets are with positioning. If you are happy to invest the money and prepared to not breed if things are the same  then I would say yes do it.
Personally its something that would concern me if I were considering a pup as weimmed says

What breed is she?  I would say she wasn't too high to breed (depending on her breed) if she has other good points to offer the breed and you find a stud dog with a history of producing low hip scored puppies

Have others in the litter been scored? If she's the odd one out then maybe I'd breed from her if she was truly excellent in every other way (maybe a champion) and if (as Ells-Bells) says you can find a compatible sire with a history of low scoring offspring. If she's an average show dog or whatever sphere you compete in and a numerically popular breed then no, there's no point adding that score to the gene pool. I don't really approve of sending xrays to Australia to be scored.

> I don't really approve of sending xrays to Australia to be scored.

Why do this - don't we have people able to do this perfectly well here in the UK?

Anyhow I'm a big follower of not throwing the baby out with the bathwater, necessarily, so would agree that provided she has other exceptional qualities to offer her breed, you might be justified in risking breeding from her,  to a low scoring male, and provided you endorse her puppies not for breeding, initially - until they can be scored.

I think the breeder is in danger of ending up with a lot of hard to sell puppies on their hands.
and then what do you do with them?

You can't get a second score so the score you have now is the one that will show on the KC website and be the official one.

I didn't know that. Good information goldmali