Carol, There is no relation with any other quality towards the scrapiesensitivitygenotyping whatsoevver as far as proven till now. Remind you this only a genotyping to find out which sheep can get scrapie easier than others. This doesnt mean that these sheep with for example vrq-vrq genotype have scrapie. On the arr-arr typed sheep all over the world have not been found any proven scrapieresults YET!!! Although there are diverse research methods which gave sometimes positive results on scrapie, and that is why there are diverse discussions going on about the whole program. My purebred Barbadosrams and Half breds with the kameroen in it have all been genotyped arq-arq. Which is so called "the wildfactor" . From the arq typed sheep have been found an occasionaly example of scrapie (from registries all over Europ and not found in my flock). A few breeds are way ahead with genotyping and have many arr-arr typed sheep already, as there is the Texel, the Oxford Down, the Swifter, the Suffolk and Kerry Hill.. I may leave a few out, this are only examples. kind regards Boudewijn Kooijman
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