Right now, I want to cast resin in the shapes of eggs. I'm using EasyCast resin, but I don't know if I can use an ordinary plastic Easter egg as a mold. If I can't use those, then what would be a good substitute? I'm also not sure what mold release to use.Thanks!
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I don't breed, but what you're saying sounds like common sense to me. It must be hard to select a sire for your dogs when a good deal of the dogs are already related to your own or to each other. Isn't that how the bad inbreeding happens?
HI Try going outside your area for a stud. I don't care for that also. Although there is no limit on how many times a male dog can be breed AKC is making them DNA a male with numerous litters that are registered. I definitely think there needs to be a bigger gene pool the pure breed gene pool pickings is getting thin. Lammy
I think that they should limit. The problems is not as bad in French Bulldogs, but it is still there and getting worse. With Frenchies, and I would assume with many other breeds, they have so many possible health problems breeding like that makes it so much worse. Plus, AKC conformation shows are so only about looks that they will pick a dog that has bad health. I know a lady that had a male Doberman puppy that had horrible Demodectic mange (he had the worse case that I had ever seen) and 2 weeks after he was diagnosed he went to a local show and finished with a 5 point major. The lady chalked the hell out of him to cover up his hair loss, but it was still obvious that something was going on, she just told the judge that his was shedding his puppy coat. The sad part was that they judge was a retired veterinarian and should of been able to know that something else was going on. The lady is going to breed him because he is finished, even though he is a very sickly dog (which is a problem with her ethics). It annoys the hell out of me.
oh thank god! a REAL dog person! (i was getting completely overwhelmed by all the ridiculously stupid questions on here). i think there should be a limit on how many times a dog can be used in a single year, but no in a lifetime. that way the dog can continue to contribute to the genepool throughout it's life instead of just maxing out in his first few years. it is concerning that some sires, who really aren't that spectacular (just popular), are having such a huge influence on some breeds. in labradors or goldens i'm not so worried, but in the rarer breeds it could be disasterous down the road. i work with bedlington terriers and our main problem is copper toxicosis of the liver. this disease was never a problem until one wildly popular stud was used over and over and over about 20 yrs ago. he passed the recessive trait to all of his offspring, so a few years later dogs were dropping dead left and right from this disease. thankfully, we now have a genetic test to help us manage this disease and we are on the way to eliminating it. thanks for posting!
