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Irish Doodle stud dogs

Irish Doodle stud dogs offered by UK breeders, with health test results and registration details.

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Advertise your Irish Doodle stud dog

Offer your Irish Doodle 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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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 an Irish Doodle stud dog

Irish Doodle litters are usually bred from an Irish Setter and a Standard Poodle, so a stud dog listed here may be a pedigree dog of either parent breed or an Irish Doodle himself. For a pedigree stud, ask for his RKC registration and check his results on the Health Test Results Finder. The PRA rcd4 DNA test is on the RKC list for both breeds; beyond that, look for hip and eye results, plus CLAD, PRA rcd1 and an elbow grade if he is an Irish Setter, or prcd-PRA and vWD1 if he is a Standard Poodle. An Irish Doodle stud should have been tested for everything on both lists. The RKC's inbreeding coefficient calculator, the tool once known as Mate Select, shows a pedigree stud's own figure beside his breed average; the RKC holds no such data for crossbreeds, so if two Irish Doodles are mated, keep records and avoid close relatives. Agree terms in writing.

Health tests for an Irish Doodle stud

The Irish Doodle has no RKC health scheme of its own. The RKC advises anyone breeding a crossbreed to carry out the tests recommended for both parent breeds, so ask to see results for each parent and check them on the RKC Health Test Results Finder.

One test stands out. The DNA test for progressive retinal atrophy rcd4, a late-onset form that leads to blindness, is on the RKC lists for both breeds. It is inherited as an autosomal recessive condition, so a puppy is affected only if it inherits a faulty copy from each parent; two untested parents could both be carriers. The other DNA tests are listed for one breed only, but testing that parent still matters because carriers can pass the gene on to puppies that may later be bred from.

Hip scoring and eye testing appear on both lists. BVA hip scores run from 0 to 106, lower being better, and each parent's score should be compared with the published figures for its own breed. The RKC advises an eye examination within 12 months before mating. The Standard Poodle Club, whose health scheme the RKC links to, keeps an open register for sebaceous adenitis, a skin disease diagnosed by biopsy, and requires members to test for it before breeding.

  • Irish Setter, Good Practice: prioritising genetic diversity
  • Irish Setter, Good Practice: DNA test for progressive retinal atrophy PRA (rcd4)
  • Irish Setter, Best Practice: DNA tests for canine leucocyte adhesion deficiency (CLAD) and progressive retinal atrophy PRA (rcd1)
  • Irish Setter, Best Practice: BVA/KC Hip Dysplasia Scheme, BVA/KC Elbow Dysplasia Scheme and BVA/KC/ISDS Eye Scheme
  • Standard Poodle, Best Practice: DNA tests for progressive retinal atrophy PRA (rcd4), progressive retinal atrophy (prcd-PRA) and von Willebrand disease (vWD1)
  • Standard Poodle, Best Practice: BVA/KC/ISDS Eye Scheme and BVA/KC Hip Dysplasia Scheme
  • Standard Poodle: breed club health scheme for sebaceous adenitis (Standard Poodle Club)
  • Breed Watch: Irish Setter Category 1; Standard Poodle Category 1. The Irish Doodle, as a crossbreed, has no Breed Watch category.

More for Irish Doodle owners and breeders

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