Hip Score

[ComedyDevil]

How does Hip Scoring actually work? I've never really looked into this before, I've tried Googling it but haven't found a lot of useful information, most of it is very confusing.

A GSD I know (not the one I'm possibly adopting) has a hip score of 5:6. Is this a particularly good or bad score? Why? What do the two numbers relate to?

Thanks.

[mrbluekittie]

Here is some information on Hip dysplasia and hip grades, not specifically the rating that you are looking for.

http://www.offa.org/hipgrade.html

Thanks,
mrbluekittie

[AllAmericanPUP]

those scores would be PennHip.
i might be wrong but i think PennHip scores differe with each breed...and i dont know exactly how the scoring for PennHip works...you'd have to look it up