Brittany Breeders UK: Advertise Your Kennel Free

Advertise your Brittany puppies, litters and stud dogs

Do you breed Brittanys? List your kennel on caninebreeder.co.uk so buyers looking for a hunt, point and retrieve gundog can find you. A free basic profile shows your kennel name, website, social links, location and categories. When a litter is planned you can advertise Brittany puppies for sale, promote your Brittany stud dog, and share the hip scores and registration details that careful buyers ask about. Add your listing today and reach owners and working homes across the UK.

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Do I need a licence to advertise puppies?

In England you need a dog breeding licence from your council if you breed three or more litters in 12 months or breed and sell dogs as a business, and Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland have their own schemes. Licensed breeders show their licence number and issuing council on every advert. Puppies must be at least eight weeks old before they go to new homes.

Is my listing already here?

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About the Brittany

The Brittany comes from north-west France, where it is known as the Epagneul Breton. According to the Royal Kennel Club (RKC), the breed was founded on a local spaniel known as Le Fougere, with English Setter and Pointer blood added to improve its scenting and pointing ability. The Brittany Club of Great Britain places its beginnings in the Callac area of Brittany during the 1800s. The result is a hunt, point and retrieve (HPR) gundog: a dog that searches for game, points it, flushes it and retrieves it once shot. In the UK it is shown in the RKC's Gundog group, and the breed club notes that Challenge Certificate status was granted in 1997.

Size and build

The Brittany is a medium-sized, square and cobby dog of workmanlike build, moderately boned and solid without being heavy. The breed standard gives an ideal height at the withers of 48 to 51 cm (19 to 20 in) for dogs and 47 to 50 cm (roughly 18.5 to 19.75 in) for bitches. Many, though not all, Brittanys are born with a naturally bobbed tail, and when the first French breed club was founded in 1907 it took its name from this trait.

Coat and grooming

The coat is dense but fairly fine, lying flat or with a slight wave. The forelegs carry a little feathering and the hindlegs are well feathered to mid-thigh. The standard accepts orange and white, liver and white, black and white, tricolour, and roan in any of these colours. The RKC suggests grooming more than once a week and lists the breed as one that sheds.

Exercise

This is an energetic working breed. The RKC puts its exercise needs at more than two hours a day and suggests a country home with a large garden, although it also lists a small house as suitable.

Temperament and suitability

The breed standard describes the Brittany as gentle and affectionate yet lively. The breed club says Brittanys are friendly with children, generally sociable with other dogs, quick to learn and responsive to positive, consistent training, and that they are best suited to active households. The breed is used for rough shooting, falconry and field trials as well as in the show ring. If you want a quiet dog that needs little exercise, a different breed will probably suit you better.

Brittany health tests

The Brittany Club of Great Britain's breed health co-ordinator reports that the breed remains healthy in the UK, but any breed can be affected by inherited conditions. The RKC Health Standard lists one screening test for the Brittany: hip scoring under the BVA/RKC Hip Dysplasia Scheme, at Best Practice level. At Good Practice level, the RKC breed page asks breeders to prioritise genetic diversity.

For hip scoring, a vet X-rays the dog once it is at least a year old and permanently identified by microchip (the RKC also accepts a tattoo). A pair of veterinary scrutineers from the scheme's panel scores each hip from 0 to 53, giving a total between 0 and 106; lower scores mean fewer signs of hip dysplasia. Breeders are advised to use dogs scoring around or below the breed median. Results for RKC-registered dogs are recorded by the RKC and shown on its Health Test Results Finder.

The breed club gave the annual breed average coefficient of inbreeding as 6.1% in March 2024, a figure it describes as low. The Brittany is in Breed Watch Category 1, meaning the RKC has not identified any breed-specific points of concern for judges. Health testing lowers risk but cannot guarantee that a puppy will never develop a condition.

Health tests and schemes for the Brittany (RKC):

Hip testing under the BVA/RKC Hip Dysplasia Scheme: RKC Best Practice
Prioritising genetic diversity, for example by checking the coefficient of inbreeding of a planned mating: RKC Good Practice
Breed Watch: Category 1 (no breed-specific points of concern)

Choosing a Brittany breeder

A careful Brittany breeder will have hip scored both parents under the BVA/RKC scheme and will be happy to show you the results, which you can also look up on the RKC Health Test Results Finder. They should be able to explain why they chose the stud dog, whether for working ability, temperament, conformation or a balance of these, and tell you the coefficient of inbreeding for the mating.

The Brittany Club of Great Britain advises buyers to see puppies with their mother, reared in a home with everyday household noise and kept in clean surroundings, and to check that both parents have hip scores near the current breed average. Its guidance says responsible breeders do not sell puppies under eight weeks old. Expect RKC registration, microchip paperwork, a diet sheet, a pedigree and, if the puppy has been docked, the docking certificate.

A good breeder will also ask how you plan to meet the dog's exercise needs, answer questions after the puppy goes home, and help if the dog ever needs to be rehomed.

Questions to ask a Brittany breeder:

What are the hip scores of the sire and dam, and how do they compare with the breed median?
What is the coefficient of inbreeding for this litter?
Do the parents come from working, show or mixed lines, and can I meet the mother with her puppies?
Will the puppy be RKC registered and microchipped, and if it has been docked, will I receive the docking certificate?
If you breed three or more litters a year or run a breeding business, do you hold a council licence, and what support do you offer after the sale?

Brittany questions

How much exercise does a Brittany need?

The Royal Kennel Club lists the Brittany as needing more than two hours of exercise a day. It suggests a country home with a large garden, although it also lists a small house as suitable.

Do Brittanys have tails?

Many Brittanys are born with a naturally bobbed tail, but not all, and the breed standard allows a dog that is naturally tailless, short-tailed or customarily docked. Since October 2008 the Royal Kennel Club has recorded naturally bobbed tails on registration certificates when a vet confirms them. In England, docking is only allowed when the mother is of a specified type, which includes hunt, point and retrieve breeds, a vet certifies the puppy as a likely working dog, and the puppy is no more than five days old.

What health tests should a Brittany's parents have?

The Royal Kennel Club recommends hip scoring under the BVA/RKC Hip Dysplasia Scheme (Best Practice) and asks breeders to prioritise genetic diversity (Good Practice). Ask to see both parents' hip scores and compare them with the breed median.

Is the Brittany a spaniel?

Its French name, Epagneul Breton, translates as Breton spaniel, and a local spaniel was its foundation. Because it points game as well as flushing and retrieving it, the Royal Kennel Club treats it as a hunt, point and retrieve breed in the Gundog group, and the word spaniel was dropped from its name.

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