Thoughts about breeding & planned litters

I only breed 1 or 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 also want to sell them to people that do something with them, not only keep them as pets. Kelpies need to work !
I think it is very important to have them socialised and used to cooperation with people, so we love when our friends come and visit us and play with mum & pups !

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 - 5:5 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%.



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2010

Pups expected in week 28

Vickulas Nytta

Parents: KORAD Glimmergruvans Öjje & AUSTCH Linbarlee Killarra CD ADX ET JDX HIT, "Tammy"
HD grade B, ED & knees 0-0
. MH well done :) 1:st price quality in young dogs class in show.

Male

KORAD Vickulas Joo-Då, "Jello"

HD grade A, ED & knees 0-0. 
He is the father of L-litter with Tammy and also a litter at Busligans kennels with nice & healthy progeny.

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Winter 2010/2011 

SE V-10 Vickulas Orka

KORAD SEUCH SV-09 SELCH Canovills Kaliber & KORAD SEUCH SEBCH SESPCH INTUCH SELCH LPI LPII Vickulas Ettra


HD grade B, ED 0-0, knees OK, eyes clear

She has her MH done very well and also the big mentaltest for KORAD ( still needs to do the showpart/description ), is up for level 3 in tracking/obedience and is shown once with certificate ( CAC ), CACIB, BOB and got the title Swedish Winner 2010: SE V-10.
She is also approved at herding instinct test ( still an inofficial test ) 


The male I plan to use is 

LuxemburgCH Outback-workaholic's Armidale Radison, "Ready"

e. Ringbarka Born T Perform ( A ) & Dt.Ch. Callicoma Blitzen ( B1 )

HD grade A & ED 0-0, eyes clear & full dentition.
Ready has 5 siblings, 4 är HD-scored. 3 have A och 1 has B.
Ready is competing succesfully in agility.

He has 2 litters, still young. The only thing I know about them so far is that the dogs in the first litter have full dentition.
I met Ready and his mother "Flash" in May 2010 and they are social and nice dogs. I like them!

Inbreedingcoefficient 0%  with Orka.

PEDIGREE

LINK to kennel Outback-workaholic's

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The biggest problem for me is to get off from work within a short time... Let's keep our fingers xxx!!! 
Steffie also said that she might be able to come here with Ready, if I can't make it. 
THANK YOU, STEFFIE!!!!

IF it will be problems, I can be able to use Redo. He is the one I would like to use for Orka if she will have another litter and the boy that also I also thought about for this litter - NO "SECOND CHOISE" - but I have to choose one ;-) 
THANK YOU, MARIAH!!!!

KORAD SELCH TJH Cukid's Guru, "Redo"

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