Just for your information: Orpheus Crying wolf which I happened to know when he was just a few month old and who is the full brother of your ossa was x-rayed then because he showed signes of light lamnes, he is HD D now, one of her other brothers got HD too. I know at least of two wolfdogs with HD that had to be treated before they were 1 year of age one of them has hip searchery with under a year now already. The interesting thing is not really the degree of the parents but the degree of the offspring of the parents, because it is polygenic it can be that the combination of two dogs can cause HD in the offspring. For example Colt Zepes was quite proplematic in this direction.
@ nebulosa: HDB is classified as normal hip within the genetic range in Germany. It shows a slightly divergence in the joint but a normal Norberg degree or a slightly lower Norberg degree with a close joint. It is of genetic interest but no HD, it is called suspicios for HD. In brees with small genetic range you can´t only use A dogs. But it is always difficult internationally seen because the judgement differs a bit in some countries. Koro Krotkovskeho dvora for example had a judgment of A in Slovakia but a C1 in Germany. But this is 8 years ago and as far as I can see Slowakia got much stricter. But in some countries you are allowed to x-ray your dog befor it is fully grown or to breed without any x-rays or the Norberg degree isn´t meassured so you can´t allways compare the results between countries.
Ina
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