ShesaLikeableBiBear

What an absolute S***** w/e. I had a sick puppy who I had to take to Emergency specialist clinic on Saturday afternoon, he spent two nights there, but home now and all OK. One good thing is that the nurses started him on puppy food so when I got home with him this morning I gave the others some and they all took to it straight away. :D PS, provided everything goes OK, one of the male puppies will be going to Finland. I am stunned, but happy to sell a puppy to Europe. Most of the bi-blacks in Europe have American bloodlines, whereas ours are all English. Am delighted to think that our kennel name will be behind some dogs in Europe. :D

Congratulations to all :) and thank you to the person who nominated us. I am sorry we couldn't be at the awards ceremony. We have a litter of 3 week old puppies and as it turns out I had to take one to BVSC (Specialist Centre) at 4.00pm yesterday. STILL waiting for the vet to call me, am on absolute tenterhooks.

No I bred two in 2008 and two in 2010, both times a dog and a bitch. The first ones I bred are in my signature. The one with the head shot is the mother of the litter in 2010 and the Mum of this litter. :) The other is Odin, the first Bi-black to gain a Ch title here in QLD and the 3rd in Australia. .

VERY PROUD, Loraine. Yes will keep posting photos. :D

For showing a full white collar with white on the tail is flashier. :D

As with Rebanne, the temperaments of the parents are important. We don't allow any visitors prior to three weeks. A puppy is not likely to take much in before this and we feel that this time is for them and Mum. When we say visitors, we mean friends of ours, and we insist that they take their shoes off and wash their hands in anti-bacterial soap before picking up a puppy. We live a relativley quiet life-style, and we would probably have less than 6 visitors per week, bar on a Sunday. We don't allow anyone e.g. prospective puppy buyers to visit prior to the first vaccination.

Bitch

Dog 3

Dog one is the first two photos and dog 2 the 2nd.

Our litter have just turned three weeks. They have been in the living room since they were a week old. I get them out of the playpen/whelping box a couple of times a day so that our adults, we have six, can interact with them. Their gr gr gr grandmother, who is 14, loves to lick them on their faces. :) They have toys they can play with. We will now let any visitors come in to see and handle them. When they are four weeks old I will take them outside and and will increase the amount of time they have outside on a daily basis. I initially just let Mum out with them for the first few days and then will let the adults out with them. Once they have had their first vaccinations at six weeks they can meet other dogs. We have a sheep herding training facility here and people bring their dogs out on a Sunday for training, so they can then meet other dogs.

Thanks for your comments :) . We will be keeping the bitch and the best of the dogs. :D Amongst my show friends, yes, we have a bit of a laugh about whether or not we have minature Border Collies (IF only ANKC would recognise them ) OR black and white shelties. AM SO VERY PROUD to have bred this litter. To the very best of my knowledge there has never been a litter of four healthy bi-black shelties bred here in Australia before. :D Someone, somewhere, is being very very kind to us. :)

The first two are the 3rd dog, the 2nd two the bitch.

Rather than trying to find the topic I posted 3 weeks ago, here are the bi-black litter born 29 Feb. The first two are one dog, the 2nd two another dog.

We have just opened our first bag of puppy food. We have a bitch who has a litter of three week old puppies. Bree has been fed BH Puppy for a month and she is producing huge amounts of milk. The puppies tripled their birth weight in two weeks (we would expect them to double their birthweight in one week). They are fat little monsters with thick intense black coats. We will be weaning the puppies onto BH puppy. :)

I have a piece vinyl on the floor, then a light tarpaulin over which I have newspaper. I used the same for our litter two years ago and had no issues. :D

Congratulations At least he will be a full sized b/c, not like our current litter of mini b/c's.

Nothing to the bedding which will need changing soon, hope you have heaps of newspaper. ;)

Thanks :) Here they are at 17 days old. The bitch is the 3rd photo.

Here we are at 17 days old. The bitch is in the 3rd photo.

The pups have their eyes open. :)

WOW, hilaryo ;) Congratulations. Hope all are doing well?. Our litter are hippopotami, they are so fat they are being lazy about opening their eyes, maybe tomorrow. :D

OOPS!!, would help if I attached the photo. :D

Bree has just had her 2nd litter. In her first she presented us with two bi-blacks. Never in my wildest dreams did I expect to breed FOUR bi-blacks in the one litter. I used a tri dog, hoping to improve some faults in my lines and had a gut feeling he may have been bi-factored. :) In the attached photo we have one bitch, on the left, and three dogs, taken at a day old on 01 March. They will not have a birthday for another 4 years.

Lovely photo, Stolzseinrotts, CC looks very content.

Congratulations, Weisnjac. A nice balance. :D Hope all settled and you get some sleep.