add "primaryBreed" to parentageType

[dirbSEGES]

I have a request for adding primarybreed too parentageType. This is valuable information about the animal when you are crossbreeding.

"primaryBreed": {
"$ref": "../types/icarBreedIdentifierType.json",
"description": "ICAR Breed code for the animal."

[cookeac]

We discussed this at the meeting on 2024-06-27 and decided

• We can see why you might want to have this, when receiving an animal that is not on your system, with details of its parents.
• However, why just add primaryBreed and not other components? Particularly for cross-breeding, we think that breedFractions might be more useful.
• In general, our principle is to avoid duplicating in a resource data that is already well represented in another resource, and which can be obtained by a simple lookup.
• However, there are some cases where it would be better to be able to pass all related data, and not require a separate API call or lookup, particularly to another system to which you may not have access.

We agreed to have a further discussion at the next meetings (2024-07-10/2024-07-11).
@dirbSEGES if you (or anyone else) has additional information or suggestions, please add further comments on this issue.

[dirbSEGES]

Hi, sorry for my late reply. I've been away.

I recognize the principles of not having duplicates, but as you also mention, it is not always an option to access the data, and in our case we see this information as part of the animals' general data. We have the animals' racial fractions and are missing which of the parents contributes the fractions. Of course, adding racial fraction on the parents could also solve this, but from our perspective, we believe that primary race is enough.