Possibilities of disruptive selection in dachshunds, based on earthdog trial scores

Szerzők

  • Tamás Mészöly Hungarian University of Agriculture and Life Sciences, Institute of Animal Sciences, Department of Animal Husbandry and Animal Welfare, 2100, Gödöllő, Páter Karoly 1., Hungary
  • Natasa Fazekas Hungarian University of Agriculture and Life Sciences, Institute of Animal Sciences, Department of Animal Husbandry and Animal Welfare, 2100, Gödöllő, Páter Karoly 1., Hungary https://orcid.org/0009-0002-4184-4616

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.17205/aweth.7056

Kulcsszavak:

dachshund, hund work, family pet, selection gain

Absztrakt

Dachshunds are highly popular both historically and nowadays. They’re bred for hunting and their work is still necessary, mainly on blood tracks and in controlling red fox and badger populations. On other hand, the waste majority of these breeds are kept as family pets today, and in that role the same traits, what are essential for successful earthdog work are disadvantageous. We’ve obtained 156 earthdog trial results of 73 dogs, from eight events for modelling selection possibilities. As pedigree data of the dogs wasn’t suitable for determining it, we’ve used heritability values near h2 = 0,2 published for other populations, but to the same traits. The selection gain for hunting eagerness to the next generation would be between 4.23–4.65 scores (max. 100) with different selections pressures, while – 9.19 scores for pet purposes. In case of barking endurance future earthdogs could improve with 6,4 seconds, while dachshunds kept as companion animals could bark 8.89 s less when once started, if the population participated on trials had been a breeding stock.

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  • Natasa Fazekas, Hungarian University of Agriculture and Life Sciences, Institute of Animal Sciences, Department of Animal Husbandry and Animal Welfare, 2100, Gödöllő, Páter Karoly 1., Hungary

    corresponding author

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2025-06-19

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Mészöly, T., & Fazekas, N. (2025). Possibilities of disruptive selection in dachshunds, based on earthdog trial scores. Animal Welfare, Etológia és Tartástechnológia (AWETH), 21(1), 61-66. https://doi.org/10.17205/aweth.7056

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