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Meet Duke. Who..As per his owner... is often mistaken for an Irish Setter. He's a Liver colored 3 year Old Flat Coated retriever. What makes Duke so special for us. Well his daddy is a yellow Flat Coated Retriever and he's the result of an intentional effort to produce an FCR with what we hope will be a stronger immune system than the given expectations we've seen thus far, by simply embracing the yellow variant into our breeding program. So far we've been fortunate and haven't been met with what the majority of the FCR community has expected or wished for us. Now it can be said that there is very little to no evidence that simply using a yellow FCR is going to provide a stronger immune system. Maybe that is the case, but when no one has previously done this as a controlled experiment and used yellow FCR before then what baseline of measure do you have to compare this statement to? Common sense tells us that if you are constantly removing the yellow factor from the breeding equation you therefore effectively lower the contributing population for an already diminished gene pool then by simply allowing this once forbidden yellow gene to again contribute to the overall equation... you are in fact putting more resources back where they're needed. And for obvious reasons these genetic contributions are different resources from the current lot of Black and Liver only. How so? Well if you take it away for generations and simply hope it will just go away.... and the result over the long term shows an increase in health problems over where you started from.... How can it hurt to add back any variable that will increase diversity by any percentage? The FCR population suffered all this time due to practices of the old school breeders basically exercising a prejudice against color, but this also sort of just left them with a way to shuffle more ingredients back into the genetic mix without entirely looking towards other breeds. Simply use the yellow dogs.
