Breeders and Breeding

To supplement the following discourse, I will start by giving the judges and breeders involved a detailed basis for this discourse, as it is certainly impossible to go into extreme detail on each subject.

It is apparent that a significant minority of the subscribers to this magazine does not have a clear understanding of how Abyssinians (and Somalis)inherit coat colour or length.

Andrea Harvey, FAB Lecturer at the University of Bristol Veterinary School explains more about this inherited disease and how we can tackle it

Let me tell you about Brandy, which is why I am here tonight. Brandy was 20 months old, and I was showing her toward a Regional win. In the fall of 1998, she began cycling heavily.

Following international collaboration, a set of questions on pyruvate kinase (PK) deficiency were compiled and co-ordinated by me, then put to Dr Urs Giger, who had earlier kindly agreed to answer them, for publication in the August 2004 issue of The Abyssinian Breeder magazine.

Here you will find breeders from Canada, USA, Europe, Australia...

It is to be noted that the proportions of the various color combinations as listed above are theoretical, with the exceptions of those where 100% (or all) of the get are expected to be of one type.