[NicandChic]

You'd need to find out what th test was 
For PRA & fn the tests alone are over £300, maybe he's just had his eyes checked for glaucoma!

[doganjo]

In 2011 - health tests - for border collies, annual eye tests (£40) one off gonioscopy (£40) hip score (£130) DNA test for CEA & CL (about £150 each)

Increase these a little to get a more timeous cost. - about £500 altogether if you do all the eye tests as well as hips etc, so £75 goes nowhere near it.

As I have always said if you are doing it properly you cannot make profits on breeding dogs.

[sabrina]

When I had my German Shepherds Fallon went through all her health checks as we thought about breeding a litter. Cannot remember what it cost me but I know it was not cheap. A the end of the day I changed my mind as I was worried what sort of homes the future puppies would end up in. We took on Tanya as a rescue instead. At that time there was a young lab being seen by my vet from tested parents and it had bad hips age 6 months. Must have been a throw back to a dog or bitch that was not tested.

[doganjo]

When I had my German Shepherds Fallon went through all her health checks as we thought about breeding a litter. Cannot remember what it cost me but I know it was not cheap. A the end of the day I changed my mind as I was worried what sort of homes the future puppies would end up in. We took on Tanya as a rescue instead. At that time there was a young lab being seen by my vet from tested parents and it had bad hips age 6 months. Must have been a throw back to a dog or bitch that was not tested.

Quite likely.  In order for hips to be consistently low scored or even Zero then all ancestors within a number of generations (7 I think ) must be below a certain level - one paper I read mentioned a crucial figure of 10, but I can't remember why they decided on that number, since teh average varies from breed to breed.  There is also an environmental aspect.  One bitch I had we got at 14  months and she had been kept in a small run, except for limited exercise for a short time each day. She developed the habit of jumping up and down on her back legs, and although her background was low to medium scored, hers were very high at 58. Dr Willis in formed us that her environment had been the cause, but we took the decision never to breed from her just in  case it was a throwback as we found one ancestor 3 generations back hadn't been scored.

[sabrina]

I expect no matter how hard you try to breed the best there will be times that something will turn up. Millions are spent each year breeding racehorses with the hope that there will be that special winner. We all know not every mating gives you that. Breeders can only do the best they can that their puppies are in good health. No one wants to have to put puppies down.