what is dog hipscoring?

Answer 1

Hip scoring is a way to measure the health of a dog's hips. This is particularly important for large breed dogs that are prone to hip dysplasia. The score is made by first taking an x-ray after the dog turns two years old, then the images are sent to the OFA and rated by professionals to determine how good the hips look. The best rating is very hard to get, very few dogs achieve this. You want to get a dog with the best hips possible to avoid painful hip dysplasia.

Answer 2

Hip-Scoring is done on 9 different points of the hip joint anatomy and each area (apart from the caudal acetabular edge which is out of 5) is scored out of a possible 6 points. The lower the score, the better the hips. The maximum score per hip is 53, with an overall total of 106. The score is usually expressed as e.g. 0/3, where the first figure is the total score achieved in the right hip. A score of 51/48 would indicate that both hips are severely arthritic.

The first two areas scored, the Norberg angle and subluxation, are considered to be more influenced by environmental factors e.g. excessive weight, which can give a greater degree of looseness of ligament. The other areas scored all involve arthritic changes and are considered to have a high degree of inheritance.

Answer 3

Hip Scoring is known as Hip Dysplasia, which is a serious conditon which can lead to an animal having reduced mobility or, in the worst cases, put to sleep due to severe pain and disability. All animals should therefore be Xrayed and scored before being bred from. In the UK the BVA-KC scheme is used which scores each hip on a range from 0 to 53, where higher numbers indicate poorer hips. The animal's hip score is therefore given as three number: left hip, right hip and total (e.g. 4/7:11).

So, for example, a score of 7/8:15 is preferred to 1/14:15 even though the totals are the same. When you are choosing a puppy you should ask for both parents' hip scores and make sure you are given all three numbers.

Answer 4

Hip scoring is a procedure used to determine the degree of hip dysplasia in dogs and other animals and reporting the findings in a standard way.

The hip score is the sum of the points awarded for each of nine radiographic tures of both hip joints.

The lower the score the less the degree of dysplasia present. The minimum (best) score for each hip is zero and the maximum (worst) is 53, giving a range for the total of 0 to 106.

Answer 5

when dogs are scored for hip displacia(spelt wrong sorry)..common for breeding

Answer 6

This site should tell you all you need to know:
http://www.bva.co.uk/public/chs/hip_scheme.asp

Answer 7

http://www.geocities.com/bluegracepwd/hips.html

http://www.goldendoodles.com/hd_mini_tutorial.htm

There's a couple of links that explain it very well.