I had been thinking, I'll ask the folks we got her from what else they
can tell us about her lineage etc. Inbreeding seems awfully unlikely,
as it's all artificial insemination, and the choices are (I gather)
rather carefully made, but I guess I don't know for sure. Next week
I'll see if they can tell me any more--it has made me curious!!
Shannon

On Jul 14, 2006, at 8:11 AM, Hennie Duits wrote:

> No inbreeding on the farm she comes from? Does she have (older)
> brothers/sisters? Same parents?
> (And about the too unpleasant image - monkeys have the sort of AIDS
> they can live with, so, hm..)
> Could indeed be anything, but there was nothing that made you frown,
> right?
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> Hennie
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>> An, the ten-thousand-dollar question!! (Why she came to be this way.)
>> I doubt that her ancestors had syphilis, but who knows. :-) I've
>> followed the debates about whether Hahnemann's miasms are
>> disease-specific, or whether other agents can give rise to the same
>> miasm. Dunno, but personally I lean toward the latter. What would
>> cause a calf to be born this way... ??Toxic exposure of the mother??
>> Or just a genetic fluke, or... Ach, the other image is just too
>> unpleasant... :-) What do *you* think or others?
>> Shannon
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