So lets go on then with the results:
Of course, the easiest way to describe progress and success of the PP is to look at the develpooment of the total amounts of pairs and the number of participants of the census.
Her you can see how many people reported their animals each year. It is good that we hace rather constant numbers here but we should wish for increasing numbers. This would lead to a certainly more constant developpment. At the moment, those who leave eq
Here you can see the developpment. The blue Graph shows the total amount of reported pairs. It shows a really interesting behaviour and a good upwards-trend. Obviously, during some 5 years, we more than doubled the whole of our stock. Of course, all this data will show a certain statistical fluctuation. This is due to breeders who do not always report their stock because they do not have enough time or they simply forget it. But overall, the trend is really clear which is great!
Now to the not so good news:
The red Graph is almost constant with little fluctuation. This sounds good in the first moment because you might think that we succeed in constantly breed the same species. Sadly, this is not true. As the next graph shows, we have huge species-fluctuations. This fluctuation-rate has led to the state we are in that about a third of the about 60 species or varieties that have ever been reported are no longer found in our stocklists. This is a developpment we need to stop.
I hope this shows how well we can use our Census-data and why it is important to keep it actual
Please ask if you have any questions or remarks on that!
I will tomorrow go on with this…