Thoughts about breeding
& planned litters
I only breed 1
( or very rarely 2
litters per year ). It takes a lot of time, as I have my pups indoors and play
with them and take them in & out several times a'day. They
are free to “run around” in the kitchen from
21 days of age and they also visit other rooms in the house, for new experiences. They have a lot of things to “play”
with, tugs for tugwar, balls & noicy metal-things. They have their
own big yard outside, neighbours to horses and sheeps. Well fenced...!
I try to get to visit friends with them when they are 7 weeks. A few per time.
So they can experience to go by car and also see another house.
Thanks friends!
I think it is very
important to let them be socialised and used to cooperation with people, so we love when our friends come
and visit us and play with mum & pups!
I want to sell
them to people that do something with them, not only keep them as pets. Kelpies
need to work !
I think that good bitches
are the most important in the breeding. Well, good males also :)
In Sweden we can only
breed from hipscored and HD-free dogs, grade A or B. That might be maximum 4:4 -
6:6 in Australia.,
depending on where the points are placed.
Of kelpies born 2000-2005 in Sweden there are 433 scored with good hips, grade A
& B and 39 with HD, mostly C.
All HD
& ED-results are official, at the Swedish kennelclub's database. There are
also all results from competitions & shows for all registred dogs.
You can see it here: http://kennet.skk.se/hunddata
It is in Swedish, but you can try your way ahead :)
We also have to do a mentaltest before breeding; MH. That's not approved or not,
just known mental status, but very good to look at for the sake of breeding
mentally stabil, open dogs with workingability. "Good dogs" !!!
For the
title KORAD, the dog has to be approved in a big mentaltest + HD OK + "good
enough" looking and testicles OK.
I think that it is
important to know as much as possible about the siblings to the parents, as they
also affect on the litters, both about HD, mentality & conformation !!!!!!
The best breeding is breeding good dogs from good litters !
My
goal with breeding are healthy dogs with a lot of “power” for work, as
tracking, searching & obedience. I have sheep and try to do a bit herding
also, the dogs love it, but in that I'm a beginner in herding so I should take
lessons... :)
Training tracking, seaching & obedience is easy, but that's because I'm used
to it of course :)
I prefer
to use good mentaltested dogs that also has proved that they can work, more or
less. All owners does not want to go to competitions and I don´t mind, as long
as the dogs will get their needs of activity in using brain and noose and are
loved members of the family. But, if I will breed from a dog I want to know the
workingability and it is a difference between training “at home” and compete
a whole day in another place
And
of course, I am happy for results from competitions for “my pups”..!
I want to
be keeping our "old" lines with some "new blood" now and then,
always keeping the
inbreedingcoefficients under 2.5% and no individual more than 0.8%.
I think about it more and more, as in litters with high inbreeding the risk is
much higher for illness...
The
inbreedingkoefficients are counted out of 5 generations. If I count from 4 there will be
lower and in some of the litters 0%.
These
are my thoughts about matings that I'm interested in and not all of the owners
of the males are spoken to. Plans can change as time goes...
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Hopefully spring 2012
KORAD
SEUCH SPHII
Vickulas Piraya
HD grade A, ED 0-0, knees OK
MH well done, approved in level 3 tracking, 1:st price in obedienceclass 1 &
Swedish showchampion.
Piraya also did big mentaltest for KORAD with a really a good result!
She will - hopefully - be mated to
KORAD SEUCH SELCH LP elit Zathungens
Black Devil
HD grade B (A/B), ED 0-0
Up for eliteclass tracking
Several times qualified to the Swedish Masterships in Obedience, has also been
in the Landteam for Sweden
Appr. 40 1:st prices in elite obedience
PEDIGREE
More pictures of Devil HERE
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2013
Hopefully Vickulas Reka
e. KORAD Vickulas Joo-Då & KORAD Vickulas Nytta
Still young! Born 2010. So far hipscored with A-hips & ED
0-0. MH well done. Shown with Excellent.
Male?
Not decided at all, but I think of Outback-workaholic's HallsCreek VIP or maybe
another nice male I have in mind....
Let's see when time comes ;-)
PEDIGREE
Also interesting is the semen from
Lorroy On the Run
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2014...
One of the S-girls?
&
KORAD TJH Vickulas Likör
or
Vickulas Robbie/Rio?
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Maybe one more litter from
Orka?
If so, probably with KORAD TJH
Vickulas Likör or Vickulas
Robbie/Rio