The Breed Archive

20/09/2024

Texas A&M University is looking for participants for their Borzoi heart study: https://breedarchive.com/blog/view/49/borzoi-heart-study

07/09/2024

The energetic and feisty Rat Terrier is now also part of our Breed Archive community!

The latest addition to the Breed Archive is an all-American breed, the feisty Rat Terrier.

28/08/2024

*** Downtime Notice ***
Dear Breed Archive community,
We would like to inform you that we are planning a major system update for our Breed Archives on Thursday, 29 August 2024, which will result in a downtime of about one to three hours, depending on the archive. We will do our best to keep the outage as short as possible.
Thanks in advance for your understanding.

06/08/2024

Responsible animal breeding is based on many factors, two of which are health and genetics. That's why we put a lot of effort into providing pedigree and health analysis in the Breed Archives.

Today we are happy to contribute another piece to support precise and sustainable breeding choices with our partnership with FERAGEN, a certified laboratory for genetic veterinary diagnostics in Austria.

Find out more:
https://breedarchive.com/blog/view/46/dna-analysis-for-your-dog

24/05/2024

A dog in sheep's clothing, the distinctive Bedlington Terrier has just joined the Breed Archive family!

Our latest addition is a unique breed: it is the Bedlington Terrier with a lamb-like appearance but true terrier grit.

19/04/2024

The affectionate and agile Tibetan Terriers have recently joined our Breed Archive!

Despite its name, our latest addition is more of a herding and watch dog: it is the Tibetan Terrier, the Holy Dog of Tibet.

23/02/2024

Another breed has recently joined the Breed Archive. Check out the sturdy and energetic German Wirehaired Pointer!

Our newest addition belongs to the Gundog group. It is the sturdy, energetic and bright German Wirehaired Pointer.

17/12/2023

Check out our newest addition to the Breed Archive: the sometimes serious looking, but actually clownish Sussex Spaniel!

Our latest addition belongs to the spaniel family. It is the sometimes serious-looking, but friendly and clownish Sussex Spaniel.

04/12/2023

The agile and smart Nova Scotia Duck Tolling Retrievers have recently joined our Breed Archive! Special thanks to Amy from k9data for entrusting her database to us.

Please find the migration instructions below:

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Dogs
In principle, all dogs from the k9data have been migrated and
are available on the new platform. We have skipped invalid data or
extremely incomplete data, e.g. if there was not even a
name.

Persons (Breeders, Owners)
We migrated a substantial part of this, but as the k9data system had
free-text fields for breeder and owner, this resulted in same persons written
in many different ways in the "Breeder", "Owner" textfields. We used automatic
routines and subsequent complex manual mappings to try - especially with
the breeders - to transfer the same persons - from the many different
spellings in the k9data - to the Breed Archive only once.

Photos
The Breed Archive does not embed photos from external web resource links
due to both copyright reasons and unavailability of remote websites.
Therefore we did migrate the photo links to the notes field.
Users can of course still upload photos from there later if they hold
the necessary copyrights and indicate this in our system when uploading.

Titles
All information entered in the title fields ("FrontTitles" and
"EndTitles" and "AdditionalTitles") of the k9data was
copied to the “other titles” field of the new platform to make sure no
information is lost. We could only migrate a subset of the old title
information to the new title format due to the fact that titles were
entered in arbitrary formats which made automatic conversions
impossible in some cases. You can, of course, manually match the
old title information of your dog to the titles of the new title list and
the titles will again be displayed with the name of the dog on his
detail page and in the pedigrees.

Health
A large part of the health information, health test results could be
migrated to the new schema, but not all. In case of a migration, please
find the original health information in the particular health notes
field where you can check if it was migrated correctly.

CauseOfDeath
We have migrated some of the more common causes of death. However, as
there were so many different entries and spellings in the k9data field,
without any standardisation, this is certainly not complete and will
have to be completed manually by the user community.

Colour
Field "ColorDesc" had nearly 2,000 different entries, so we have
mapped entries that occurred more than once to the entries based
on AKC, KC and FCI definitions (buff, orange, red, red gold without or
with white markings).

Additional notes:
Fields "Registry" and "RegistrationNumber" have been combined into
the Breed Archive registration number field.
Fields "CHIC", "Honorifics", "Image", "Microchip", "Misc" and "Website"
have all been put into the dog's notes field. If there was at least one OFA test,
we have added a link in the notes field consisting of the OFA-quicksearch and
the registration number of the respective dog.

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