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Originally Posted by Sleeping_Lion
They are half sisters, different sires - even with a gene pool as supposedly large as Labradors, you're cutting out an awful lot of healthy animals if you don't breed from dogs that have relatives that have higher elbow grades, or hip scores than the *ideal*.
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I'm only talking from experience of my breed of course, but almost all the dogs I've looked at from breeders I know have elbow grades of 0 with the occasional 0/1 or 1/1. I've actually never seen a breeder use a dog with an elbow score of 2. Apart from the English lines breeders. One of a very well used studs has a grade of 3. Disgusting
In your situation I would be looking at the other siblings on mother's side and what sire has produced before jumping in saying no. If you have enough reason to believe the sire is increasing grades - I'm assuming you've done this and that's why you're happy breeding? If they are only half siblings without themselves having done the research into your lines they've no right to say that really have they