oakway

Cherry Eye ?????

A Tibetan Spaniel would fit the bill I think.

They do have in house testing kits now. Ask your vet for this cost against the cost of sending away.

I also use Gerry King at Redbank Plain.

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Glyphosate is salt. :)

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If you have just received the papers and they are blue this dog is on the main register. We have just changed in Qld from red to blue for main register.

The English T ter The American is Tie ter. :)

You can inseminate a bitch with chilled semen yourself.

You are correct - there is a test kit called 'vacci-check', in house test kit - it does take about 30 mins to run the test though, and it does not give an antibody number, just a colour change comparison to say yes or no to adequate cover. Thank you for confirming that.

I read somewhere in the last week that an in house test is now available to vets for titre testing. Results available immediately. The only place I could have read it was on DOL or Face Book. Maybe a ring around some vets may get some results as to whom has the test kits or if it is figment of some ones imagination.

Perhaps it varies by breed, but I think this is a gross exaggeration. When I lived in WA I registered around 100 pups. I was entirely consistent. If people wanted main register, I agreed to switch after the dog or bitch was evaluated at 1 year. If hips and elbows were above breed average and eye tests ok, and the dog didn't look awful, I would grant main register. Only TWO of the pups I sold, one bitch and one dog, were switched to Main, and the dog was only used at stud twice. The bitch went on to establish a line that some would call BYB pups -- no showing, but not bad looking dogs and decent healthy pets -- I have no problem with that. When I bred my first litter, in 2005, pedigree Labrador pups were going for $600 in the Perth metro area. Now they are going for $1800. This would not be happening if a large number of people were trying to recoup the purchase price. If there's a choice between retaining genetic diversity, by breeding from stock who are not the type-of-the-year or whose owners are not interested in showing, or restricting breeding to the creme de la creme, I know where I'm going to cast my vote. p.s. I had more problems in the opposite direction. There were a few dogs I would have loved to see the owners keep entire so they might have been used at stud. But no, most puppy buyers want to desex. Of course it was an exaggeration!! However, if you breed a breed beloved of puppy farmerS, many of the enquiries are not from people wanting pets, they are from people wanting to breed, but they don't want to tell you that, nor do they want you to mentor them; they want to continue their dodgy ways, with the pup you sold them and they wanted the papers because they can get more for the pups if they are registered. There was a lovely lady with a little boy going around looking for a pet for him. She bought 7 altogether. What a lucky little boy he is. Are you sure none of your Labradors are not in dodgy breeding establishments, Sandgrubber? How do you know? I haven't got a problem with genuine people buying my pups and breeding them. Sadly, there are very few genuine people out there wanting to breed to improve the breed. I received 86 emails for the last litter I advertised, all seeking pets (or so they said). When I said the pups were not for breeding, the interest reduced drastically. I don't think selling a pup to a 200 dog puppy farm does anything to widen the gene pool. Now Aint that the truth.!!!!!. It happens here a lot of the time and the new so called PET purchases soon disappear when told pets only leave here de sexed. As so many of us say......it has nothing to do with what register they are put on. It is more to do with the lack of honesty of some purchasers. Many of us could sit here all day and write stories of what we have been told by other breeders let alone what happens to us. Most breeders are not protecting blood lines they are doing their best to protect the puppy.

It has nothing to do with Main or limited register. It is all to do with people that want a pet pup and do NOT WANT TO SHOW. When this happens some breeders put the pups on the limited register. If the bitch had six and we keep two what do you think we do with the other four ?. You really don't think breeders put them on the main register, (when we are continually warned about BYB's and Puppy Farmers getting hold of them) do you. Of course you don't you possibly do as most of us do, render them useless for breeding and then put them on the main register and sell them and hope that the new owner may show at a later date in the neuter class as they have a main register puppy. Any puppy not suitable for main is neutered and placed on the limited register. Take a big look around and just see how many new/young people there is showing. Not a lot !!!!!!!. It appears that most people want a healthy well reared pure bred puppy to have as a pet, to love and grow old with, not to show. We as breeders have lots of pups that are capable of winning in the show ring but we can not MAKE their owners show them so we the breeders and the owners do the next best thing for them....they de sex them and give them great lives as loving companions.

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I have Toys and they are fed raw from the start.

If this was my bitch I would have her at the vets immediately for an ultra sound to prove that she is in whelp and if she is I would them have a progesterone test done to see what is happening and I would remove the male immediately. Best of luck for a litter.

I am close to running out Oakway and I had a look on ebay for it but couldn't find one at a similar price to yours. Can you give me/us some more clues? If you do a search for kelp powder on eBay and then make sure the kelp is Ascophyllum Nodosum you will be on the right track. I DID! but either I, or my computer, is/are having a dyslexic week :laugh: (my grammar could also do with a brush-up) Thanks Oakway for the link. From Brain-dead Me I can supply your organic Ascophyllum Nodosum with a dogz discount. 450g or 1kg bags if you are interested.Link O Blast it all Steve! I bought some from the Oakway-ebay-seller-link, I had checked your Calendula petals (out of interest) but didn't think to check the seaweed. I am cross now as I would have much rather bought from you. I hate that! Any thing herbal or similar Ive usually got - just slow at putting it on the website. Nominations slowing me down. Well we will all run out of it sooner or later and we now know where to purchase it from with in our own ranks.

The truth of the matter is simply this.....we the breeders are NOT receiving enquiries for a puppy to show. If we don't get owners wanting to show most breeders do the right thing and place the pups on the limited register. To encourage people to show I put mine on the main register and de sex so the owners should they want to change their minds later on and show the dog they can. Simple as that.

Sorry Oakway I wasn't clear I meant that they allow breeders to register a pup straight into the new owners name - in NSW its not possible for the breeder to do this and I didn't realise the limited register was the same price as the main one in queensland - there is a difference in NSW. No problems, as I said with most states on a different agenda it amazes me how we all manage with one another's state rules.

Steve my apologies I don’t understand what you mean when you say.......the breeder puts the rego of the pup into the new owners name and main rego costs more so they wont loose any money ........ Queensland actually makes a loss on this method of registration as we don’t have to pay a transfer fee. The cost of registration for main or limited is the same price. :) Perhaps our problems may lay in fact that every state seems to have its own rules ?. Maybe if we had one governing body throughout Aust. we may do a lot better. I personally feel that no matter what is introduced there will always be those that will wrought the system and some of our dogs will fall into the wrong hands and have the guts bred out of them. Cheers.

Mystiqview, I was not replying to you or any other person really, I just answered a question or two that was asked and the rest is just my thoughts about the matter. :) As to a vet being qualified to say what is correct in a litter and what is not correct is just laughable. Some vets don't know what some breeds are let alone know the standard. The way Dogs Qld has put the matter it would almost mean every vet would have to have an all breeds judges license. (tongue in cheek) The simple answer is de sex by either means available and keep on the main register. I think Dogs Qld have forgotten that to be able to show the new owner must want to show and the ones that have purchased from me didn't want to. By the way for people whom are not aware the cost to register a pup in Qld is the same for Main or Limited.

Qld. registration paper have changed and the new certificates are now being issued. Yes, the new certificate has all that has been mentioned, but it will not stop new owners breeding or exporting. All it means is that puppies will not be accepted for registration from this bitch and an export pedigree will not be issued. It does not stop people from exporting the dog. The only way to stop a bitch or dog being bred with is render incapable of being bred with by tubal ligation or de sexing. We have enough problems with pups being sold for show that the owners get sick of and dispose of to anybody that comes along, usually a puppy farmer that wants something pure to cross with what they already have. Some of us have been caught badly over the years and now will not let anything that is being sold as a pet go un de sexed. I don't like early de sexing but what else can I do to protect them ?. Please don't tell me about contracts as the people you have them with change house and disappear along with dog never to be seen again. If you do manage to contact them it usually will cost an arm and a leg to prosecute them and by this time the animal has been disposed of usually to a puppy farmer.

I am close to running out Oakway and I had a look on ebay for it but couldn't find one at a similar price to yours. Can you give me/us some more clues? If you do a search for kelp powder on eBay and then make sure the kelp is Ascophyllum Nodosum you will be on the right track. I DID! but either I, or my computer, is/are having a dyslexic week :laugh: (my grammar could also do with a brush-up) Thanks Oakway for the link. From Brain-dead Me No problems, I have a computer like that too. lol.

see if this helps. I have copied this from my payment site. http://cgi.ebay.com.au/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=171219134460&ssPageName=ADME:L:OC:AU:3160