#ANIMAL BREEDER WEBSITE UPDATE#
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Lush helps explain why a good definition of 'breed' is elusive.Ī breed is a group of domestic animals, termed such by common consent of the breeders.

For example, when is a crossbred animal considered a composite breed and when do we stop thinking about them as composites? Perhaps this definition from The Genetics of Populations by Jay L. Unfortunately this definition leaves some unanswered questions. The classic definition of a 'breed' is usually stated as a variation of this statement.Īnimals that, through selection and breeding, have come to resemble one another and pass those traits uniformly to their offspring. We would welcome additional cooperative efforts so please let us know. We already have breeds from every inhabited continent and we have cooperative projects underway with individuals at a number of other Universities to add to our listings and to expand existing information. As time passes we will be expanding the educational and scientific information pertaining to breeds. We see this site as a continually growing resource. We hope you enjoy the information provided and find it both educational and fun. This site is intended as an educational and informational resource on breeds of livestock throughout the world. If not, let me know why and I’ll try to help out.Welcome to the Breeds of Livestock resource presented by the Department of Animal Science at Oklahoma State University. For as little as zero dollars a month, with the added benefit of not paying for costly anger therapy, you can have the perfect breeder website.

#ANIMAL BREEDER WEBSITE UPDATE#

The focus has been on ease of use, affordability, and not having to update a title or pedigree more than once. PowerBreeder is the website content management system for breeders. So I quit my job again and poured everything I had into creating a website content management system tailored to the very specific needs of animal breeders.

#ANIMAL BREEDER WEBSITE PROFESSIONAL#

But breeders were still out in the cold.Īs a programmer who had professionally focused on making custom business applications and knew the problems that breeders faced, I was in a good position to solve this problem for good with a professional solution. Just about every business sector had some sort of CMS tailored specifically for their business - photographers, real estate agents, car dealers, and artists all had a website management solution to call their own. Website content management systems were are all over and most sites were running on one system or another. I didn’t miss the pedigrees though.įast forward another few years. I actually started to miss creating breeding announcements and uploading pictures of puppies. I was able to put extra focus on my bread-and-butter client projects - things like programming custom business reporting and tracking applications. The breeders were now able to perform their own day-to-day website updates. I still dreaded updating their websites.Įnough was enough. In my spare time, I programmed a rough, basic content management system for managing animal profiles and pedigrees. Due to word of mouth referrals, many of my clients are now dog breeders. I had quit my job as a systems administrator to develop websites full-time. A system for creating pedigrees, breeding announcements, and one-stop animal profile updates did not exist.Ĭreating pedigrees, with the same animals on it, over and over - from multiple generations - is likely the reason there are full-time anger therapists.įast forward a few years to 2009. The original breeder site problems remained. Once WordPress gained popularity a few years later, I gave that a try. I quickly lost control of the site and I dreaded receiving update requests. For instance, his sire would win a new show title not only would the sire’s web page need to be updated, but all the other website pages and pedigrees that referenced this sire. If he needed a website change made, he would email it to me and I would update the site. Website content management systems were still in their infancy, so each page of the breeder’s website was painstakingly hand coded.

One of my first paid website jobs was for a Rottweiler Breeder in 2003.

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