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Smooth Faced Pyrenean Sheepdog stud dogs

Smooth Faced Pyrenean Sheepdog stud dogs offered by UK breeders, with health test results and registration details.

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Advertise your Smooth Faced Pyrenean Sheepdog stud dog

Offer your Smooth Faced Pyrenean Sheepdog 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 Smooth Faced Pyrenean Sheepdog stud dog

In a variety still on the Imported Breed Register, each mating shapes the future UK gene pool, so choose a stud with care. Check that he is RKC registered and that his hip score is published on the Health Test Results Finder; the breed club's Code of Ethics advises against breeding from dogs scoring well above the breed mean. Ask whether puppies from his earlier litters were PDA tested. Confirm his colour too: the RKC will not register a litter from two merles, so a merle bitch needs a non-merle dog.

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, see how he behaves with people and other dogs, and agree the fee and terms in writing. See also stud dogs and stud services.

Health tests for a Smooth Faced Pyrenean Sheepdog stud

The RKC's Health Standard for the Smooth Faced Pyrenean Sheepdog lists one Good Practice step: prioritising genetic diversity. For a planned litter, that means checking the likely coefficient of inbreeding (COI) with the RKC inbreeding coefficient calculator and aiming at or below the breed's annual average, as the RKC's genetic diversity guidance advises.

The RKC also points breeders to the breed club's health scheme. The Pyrenean Sheepdog Club health page, which covers both varieties, explains that its Code of Ethics requires breeding stock to be hip scored under the BVA/RKC Hip Dysplasia Scheme, where dogs of at least one year old are X-rayed and scored from 0 to 106 (lower is better), and that dogs scoring well above the breed mean should not be bred from. The same code requires every puppy to be tested for patent ductus arteriosus (PDA), a heart condition, before sale. The club's 2011/12 survey of 50 dogs recorded some hip dysplasia, one case of epilepsy and slow recovery from anaesthetic in two dogs.

The RKC will not register puppies born on or after 1 January 2013 from a merle to merle mating in this breed, because of the risk of impaired sight and hearing.

  • Prioritising genetic diversity (RKC Good Practice)
  • Pyrenean Sheepdog Club of Great Britain breed club health scheme (referenced by the RKC)
  • BVA/RKC Hip Dysplasia Scheme (breed club Code of Ethics requirement)
  • PDA heart testing of all puppies before sale (breed club Code of Ethics requirement)
  • RKC registration restriction: no merle to merle matings
  • Breed Watch: Category 1 (no breed-specific points of concern currently identified)

More for Smooth Faced Pyrenean Sheepdog owners and breeders

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