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Bavarian Mountain Hound stud dogs

Bavarian Mountain Hound stud dogs offered by UK breeders, with health test results and registration details.

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Advertise your Bavarian Mountain Hound stud dog

Offer your Bavarian Mountain Hound at stud to owners of health-tested bitches. Show his registration, health test results and achievements, and link the listing to your free breeder profile.

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Using a Bavarian Mountain Hound stud dog

Bavarian Mountain Hound stud dogs

When choosing a stud for a Bavarian Mountain Hound bitch, start with registration and health results. He should be RKC registered so the litter can be registered, and he should have an official hip score under the BVA/KC Hip Dysplasia Scheme, ideally below or close to the breed median that BVA publishes. Check his score on the RKC Health Test Results Finder. Because the RKC lists genetic diversity as Good Practice for this breed, run the pairing through the RKC's inbreeding coefficient calculator (part of the service once called Mate Select) and aim for a figure at or below the breed average it shows. Talk through any epilepsy in both pedigrees before agreeing a mating. Breed society guidance also expects breeding hounds to hold at least its Level 1 Schweisshund certificate. Put the stud fee, any repeat-mating arrangement and the paperwork in writing first.

Health tests for a Bavarian Mountain Hound stud

Health and testing

The RKC's Breed Watch places the Bavarian Mountain Hound in Category 1: the RKC has not flagged any breed-specific concerns for show judges beyond what the breed standard already covers. That does not mean the breed is free of health problems.

For breeding stock, the RKC lists prioritising genetic diversity under Good Practice, the minimum it strongly recommends, and hip testing under Best Practice, and says responsible breeders should complete both. Hip scoring under the BVA/KC Hip Dysplasia Scheme uses X-rays taken under anaesthesia or heavy sedation once the dog is at least a year old. Each hip is scored from 0 to 53, giving a total of 0 to 106, and a lower score is better. BVA publishes a median score for each breed and recommends breeding only from dogs scoring below or close to it.

The Bavarian Mountain Hound Society of GB says epilepsy is inherited in the breed and usually appears between the ages of one and five. It says the only current way to reduce the risk is to research pedigrees before breeding, and it asks owners to report seizures or a diagnosis so they can be added to its health database.

What the RKC lists for this breed

  • Good Practice: Prioritising genetic diversity (the RKC advises a litter inbreeding coefficient at or below the breed average)
  • Best Practice: Hip testing (for hip dysplasia) using the BVA/KC Hip Dysplasia Scheme
  • Breed Watch: Category 1

More for Bavarian Mountain Hound owners and breeders

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