Breeding policy
Breeding yes, but quality!
And with family!
Why family breeding?
Quite simply, it is not our main source of income. It’s the kine office that’s making the pot boil. Breeding is the meeting of our 2 passions: the love of the breed and breeding.
Our dogs are above all our pets. If they can breed, great, we love taking care of puppies, but if that's not possible, that's no problem. So, currently we have 5 dogs living with us. One male and 4 females, but only one reproduces and two are retired. The 3rd? It was Mirabelle who had to be excluded from reproduction, she will never be a mother. But that doesn't stop him from being a sweetheart, and from being an integral member of our family.
Of the
dogs of family !
Our small farm is family run and that seems very important to us. This means that the puppies are born in the dining room and spend their first three weeks of life there, before moving to their own room, which is much larger and adapted to their development. But they regularly come back to invade our dining room to learn about family life. We also pay particular attention to the socialization of puppies.
This also means that we voluntarily limit ourselves to one or two litters over a year, in order to devote ourselves to each puppy, and also in order to give them the best possible environment for their development.
In accordance with the breed standard, we try to produce square and massive dogs, and especially with woolly and curly coats, which is THE characteristic of the Barbet.
We are seeing more and more dogs on sites and in rings (shows) that are too light and have wavy coats. This represents a threat to the breed. A barbet must have curly and woolly hair. We are fighting to maintain this characteristic.
Health side:
- We respect a relatively low inbreeding rate. But be careful, not zero, because we want to produce a certain type of dog and therefore we practice what is called close inbreeding.
- We only breed dogs without hip dysplasia. This is why our breeding animals are all x-rayed at the age of one year, and only those with A or B hips can reproduce.
Today, thanks to scientific advances, we can also carry out genetic tests to determine whether or not potential breeders carry certain specific genes, for example in terms of color! We also do these tests to ensure that the puppies will not be affected by type 1 Willebrand disease and eye disease called prcd-PRA.
