Canadian Livestock Records Corporation

Welcome to the CLRC Website

Bienvenue au site web de la SCEA

CLRC Annual Meeting

(May 16, 2013) The 2013 Annual Meeting of CLRC breed representatives was held in Ottawa on Saturday April 6, 2013. For the minutes of this meeting, please click here.

Following the AGM, Dan Stephenson of Okotoks AB was elected as Chairman of the CLRC Board, succeeding Mary Cork, Alliston ON. Sheryl Blackburn of Eldorado, ON was elected as Vice-Chairman. For a full list of the Board of Directors, click here.

Mailing Times

(May 10, 2013) In recent months, CLRC has observed that a significant portion of the mail that is received has taken a full week or more to reach the CLRC office from destinations in both Canada and the U.S.A. This means that outgoing mail may also be taking that long to reach its destination. These extended times in the postal system are beyond CLRC's control, however they do affect the length of time it takes for breeders and owners to receive their documentation.

Sending Photographs by E-mail

(May 10, 2013) For those breeds which require photographs of animals to be submitted with applications for registration, CLRC recommends that breeders scan the application forms and e-mail them, along with the required photographs, to CLRC.

Photographs e-mailed directly from a digital camera chip are very often superior in quality and reproduce better on the certificates than printed photos that must then be scanned by CLRC staff. E-mailing both the application and photographs will save mailing time as well. In these cases, we do request payment by credit card or that you have a credit balance on file.

For transfers, the photographs can still be e-mailed with a copy of the transfer application and certificate, but the original certificate must then be mailed to CLRC.

Updates to CLRC's Electronic Herdbook

(Updated daily) The CLRC Electronic Herdbook is updated daily.

2012 Annual Report and Statistics Now Available

(April 4, 2013)

The 2012 Annual Report is now available online. Click here to view the report.

The 2012 statistics are also available online and can be found on each association's web page.

Inbreeding Coefficients and Virtual Mating

(April 11, 2013) CLRC announces that Inbreeding Coefficients are now published on our website for all breeds except Swine. We hope to add Swine in the near future.

Inbreeding Coefficients measure the degree of repeating or common ancestors that exist in the pedigree. Coefficients are measured as a percentage from 0% to 100% or values from 0 to 1. Our website uses percentages. An animal with a coefficient of 0% has no known common ancestors that appear on both the sire and dam side of the pedigree. If you were to breed an animal to its sire or dam, the resulting offspring will have an inbreeding coefficient of at least 25%, depending on the number of other common ancestor lines that might appear in the pedigree.

In addition, CLRC now offers a virtual mating service which will determine the inbreeding coefficient for a proposed mating and display a five generation pedigree and common ancestor list. The virtual mating option appears at the bottom of each animal page and you can select a mate based on member ID number, animal name or registration number. If you select the ID number option, you can select one or more or all animals owned by that member.

NOTICE RE GST and HST for Breeders in Prince Edward Island and British Columbia

Effective April 1, 2013, the province of Prince Edward Island will be adopting HST at the rate of 14%. As of that date, breeders resident in P.E.I. will be required to add 14% to all fees if thier association charges GST/HST.

Also, effective April 1, 2013, British Columbia will be reverting to GST only. As a result, starting on that date, breeders resident in B.C. will only be required to add the 5% GST to fees.

Animal Photos and Marking Diagrams now available on-line

(December 12, 2012) Photos and markings diagrams when available digitally are now available on animal pages. Below is a list of associations offering photos or diagrams of animals. Click on the association name to access our on-line Members and Pedigrees database for that association.

Photos
Can ID (Crossbred Registry)
Canadian Donkey & Mule Association
Miniature Horse Association of Canada
North American Peruvian Horse Association

Markings Diagram
Canadian Morgan Horse Association, Inc.
Canadian Percheron Association
Clydesdale Horse Association of Canada
Peruvian Horse Association of Australasia
Peruvian Horse Association of Canada

Marking Diagram or Photo (One or the other per animal)
Canadian Connemara Pony Society
Canadian Haflinger Association

On-Line Extended Pedigrees now Show Repeating Ancestry

(November 6, 2012) As step 1 in our efforts to supply our members with more information on repeating or common ancestry, we are now providing additional information with the extended pedigree for each animal in our on-line Members and Pedigrees database. This is accessed here. When displaying an animal's record, there is a link to the extended pedigree near the bottom of the page. This will display a 5 generation pedigree.

What is new is a list of repeating ancestors which is sorted by the percentage of the pedigree that each animal represents. In addition, there is an alphabetic list of ancestors. This latter list will allow you to more easily compare pedigrees of animals that you are considering to mate to identify common ancestry.

Furthermore, we also offer a 12 generation analysis of the pedigree for repeating ancestors. A link appears below the 5 generation tree. You will experience a short delay while the database is doing the analysis.

To clearly show repeating ancestry, the 5 generation pedigree tree is also colour coded. The key repeating males are displayed in bright red and the females in magenta. Their ancestors are displayed in dark red and purple respectively. When an animal does not repeat in the pedigree, it appears in black.

Please watch this page for more related services as they are added.

Welcome to NAPHA members

(November 1, 2012) CLRC opened the NAPHA (North American Peruvian Horse Association) registry in September. Several certificates have now been issued and mailed to the owners. DNA results have recently been received from University of California, Davis and we will be in position to register new horses shortly.

The NAPHA website can be accessed here. For forms and to reach the CLRC NAPHA Registrar, please go to our NAPHA page here. The on line database is accessible here and is now available for free access without a password.

Applications for registration, transfer and membership may now be sent directly to CLRC and fees may be paid in American dollars by check, money order, bank draft, Visa or Master Card made payable to either CLRC or NAPHA.

We look forward to serving you in the coming years.

TIME TO RENEW YOUR MEMBERSHIP FOR 2013!

(December 31, 2012) Year End is here and it is time to renew your membership. For most associations, you may check the status of your membership here. Current membership fees can be found here. You may renew your membership here.

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