Cea Carriers

please can i get info thanks

Can you tell me what a Cea Carrier is please, Melzy? Then I'll have a go at helping you

its collie eye anomaly

Look on the border collie club of great britain for up to date links on CEA

It's under Border Collie Heath Issues on here

http://www.bordercollieclub.com/links.aspx#

A CEA carrier is a Working Sheepdog, Border/Smooth/Rough Collie, Shetland Sheepdog or Nova Scotia Duck Toller(or any cross with these breeds) that carrying a single recessive gene for Coliie Eye Anomaly. My Rjj is a DNA screened Carrier & Wukee & Jessie are DNA screened "Normal"

thanks i just want to know what it does to the dog can they go blind ect? thanks

A CEA carrier does not have the condition so will not go blind with CEA, only dogs that are affected because they have two copies of the defective gene.

Affected dogs can go blind with CEA, but it can"go right" after 12 weeks which is why all the breeds that carry this gene must be DNA tested as well as clinically screened before 12 weeks.

A breeder took her litter to be eye screened & a puppy that had been very ill when if was born, was found to almost totally blind & with it's other health problems, the best thing for the puppy was sadly to be PTS. Not CEA BTW & it shows the requirement is still there for clinically screening young puppies even if they are from DNA Normal parents.