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Chesapeake Bay Retriever stud dogs

Chesapeake Bay Retriever stud dogs offered by UK breeders, with health test results and registration details.

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Advertise your Chesapeake Bay Retriever stud dog

Offer your Chesapeake Bay Retriever 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 Chesapeake Bay Retriever stud dog

Before the Chesapeake Bay Retriever Club lists a stud dog, it asks for hip and elbow scores, known DM and PRA status and a clear eye certificate from the past 12 months, which is a sensible minimum to look for in any Chessie stud. The club is firm that a bitch who carries DM or PRA must go to a clear dog. Check the dog's results on the RKC Health Test Results Finder rather than relying on photocopies.

Both dogs should be RKC registered. Enter the proposed pairing in the RKC inbreeding coefficient calculator and aim for a COI at or below the breed's annual average; the RKC's genetic diversity guidance also asks stud owners to limit how often a dog is used. Meet the dog, watch how he behaves with other dogs, look at puppies from earlier litters and agree the fee and terms in advance. More in stud dogs and stud services.

Health tests for a Chesapeake Bay Retriever stud

The RKC's Health Standard lists four Good Practice steps for Chesapeake Bay Retriever breeders: prioritising genetic diversity, hip scoring under the BVA/RKC Hip Dysplasia Scheme, elbow grading under the BVA/RKC Elbow Dysplasia Scheme, and a DNA test for degenerative myelopathy (DM), a progressive disease of the spinal cord. At Best Practice level it adds a DNA test for prcd-PRA, an inherited form of progressive retinal atrophy that leads to blindness, and eye examination under the BVA/RKC/ISDS Eye Scheme.

The breed club's health page reports a high prevalence of DM in the breed and advises that breeding dogs have their eyes checked every year, partly to look for hereditary cataract. Under the BVA schemes, a dog must be at least one year old for hip and elbow X-rays. The club also notes that a DNA test exists for exercise-induced collapse (EIC), though it knows of no Chessie in the UK diagnosed with it so far. The RKC currently sets no breed-specific breeding restrictions.

  • Prioritising genetic diversity (RKC Good Practice)
  • BVA/RKC Hip Dysplasia Scheme (RKC Good Practice)
  • BVA/RKC Elbow Dysplasia Scheme (RKC Good Practice)
  • DNA test for degenerative myelopathy (DM) (RKC Good Practice)
  • DNA test for progressive retinal atrophy (prcd-PRA) (RKC Best Practice)
  • BVA/RKC/ISDS Eye Scheme (RKC Best Practice; the breed club advises annual eye testing)
  • Breed Watch: Category 1 (no breed-specific points of concern currently identified)

More for Chesapeake Bay Retriever owners and breeders

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