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Golden Retriever stud dogs

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

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Advertise your Golden Retriever stud dog

Offer your Golden 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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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.

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Using a Golden Retriever stud dog

A Golden Retriever stud dog should be RKC registered with a full set of current health results. The RKC's good practice list covers BVA/KC hip and elbow results, an eye examination under the BVA/KC/ISDS Eye Scheme including gonioscopy for PLA, and a DNA result for GR_PRA2. Its best practice list adds DNA results for GR_PRA1 and ICT-A. The Golden Retriever Club says eye certificates need renewing every year, so keep them current while the dog is offered at stud. Bitch owners can confirm every result on the RKC Health Test Results Finder. Before a mating is agreed, run both dogs through the RKC inbreeding coefficient calculator and check the predicted COI of the puppies. The club's code of ethics also strongly advises members who use dogs at stud to take part in the health schemes relevant to the breed.

Health tests for a Golden Retriever stud

The RKC places the Golden Retriever in Breed Watch Category 2. The one point of concern it asks show judges to look out for is dogs being too fat, so keeping a Golden lean matters for pet owners as much as for exhibitors.

On its breed page the RKC lists four good practice checks before breeding: hip screening, elbow screening, an eye examination under the BVA/KC/ISDS Eye Scheme that includes gonioscopy for pectinate ligament abnormality (PLA), and a DNA test for the GR_PRA2 form of progressive retinal atrophy. As best practice it adds DNA tests for ichthyosis (ICT-A), a skin condition, and for GR_PRA1. The RKC's breed-specific DNA package covers ICT-A, GR_PRA1 and GR_PRA2 together with a DNA profile.

The Golden Retriever Club says eye certificates need renewing every year. Under the BVA/KC Hip Dysplasia Scheme and BVA/KC Elbow Dysplasia Scheme a dog must be at least a year old to be X-rayed. The BVA recommends breeding from dogs graded 0 for elbows, and from dogs whose hip scores sit under, or near, the breed median.

  • Hip dysplasia: BVA/KC Hip Dysplasia Scheme (RKC good practice)
  • Elbow dysplasia: BVA/KC Elbow Dysplasia Scheme (RKC good practice)
  • Eye examination, including gonioscopy for PLA: BVA/KC/ISDS Eye Scheme (RKC good practice)
  • DNA test for progressive retinal atrophy, GR_PRA2 (RKC good practice)
  • DNA test for ichthyosis, ICT-A (RKC best practice)
  • DNA test for progressive retinal atrophy, GR_PRA1 (RKC best practice)
  • Breed Watch: Category 2 (too fat)

More for Golden Retriever owners and breeders

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