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[growalot]

I Have searched and searched to no avail on actual health studies for the Senica white herd. Pictures of unhealthy or deformed deer statistics on fawning ....I will be putting in some calls  next week.  That said, do any of you know where I could find this information before I start calling around? Has Cornell done any thing that you know of? Thanks in advance for any help.

[First-light]

I'll ask my family from Ithaca. I have a niece that works in the Veterinary school. Why are you looking for this info Grow?

[growalot]

Actually years ago I did a small search...Then a recent post had me reading again and what popped out in one of the readings  was very little genetic studies have been done on this particular herd. Also that the ratio of " normal " deer to the ones with the recessive color gene is 3/1 being approximately 600  to 200. I also checked out what has been done on some of the naturally occurring herds in the wild.  Like in Wisconsin  where their predators include wolves and yet that herd is still surviving...Always good to learn  and gather information. You never know what information you'll turn up in the process..

Like this about human recessive genes in the first link, then in the second.  A link that shows some of these as now myths...yet I found the traits in the first link on many university sites...just interesting  things to read  rarely are things in our realm of "knowledge"  cut and dry. Useful to gather as much information from as many sources then look at a picture as a whole. Just look how long it took to unseat Pluto

https://sites.google.com/site/rnpodarst10th2011grp13/dominant-and-recessive-traits/common-dominant-and-recessive

http://udel.edu/~mcdonald/mythredhair.html

 

Edited December 3, 2016 by growalot