Billingbriar Gsp’s
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We have in the past as a family on average bred one litter of our own GSP puppies once a year as an enjoyable hobby and are not commercial breeders and as such rarely break even often gifting most free or for donations to close friends and family hence never making a profit..
The colours of our GSP puppies are Solid Liver with white hairs on chest, Solid Black with white hair on chest, Liver/White spotted & ticked, Black/White spotted & ticked.
Our dogs live at our equine smallholding & are primarily much loved pets who acompany us to work at equestrian farms/country estates where they assist with wildlife management and on our regular hiking trips/camping holidays.
We do work them and have competed in field trials and at crufts level showing so they are not unsafe/timid with noise/crowds/strange dogs/judges handling them.
Our dogs spend most of their time outdoors in the fresh air in all weathers roaming free displaying natural pack behaviour meeting and greeting strange people and their dogs. At our mealtimes or at night they relax by keeping us company lying indoors with us and they love to follow us around generally calmly at heel, rarely whining or barking unless they wish to alert us or become excited.
We adhere to animal welfare guidelines appropriate for working type large breed gundogs. We teach our gundogs to be friendly, safe & affectionate.
If you wish to use our stud dog we recommend you use a course of 2-3 progesterone blood tests and give 1st vaccinations your litter before rehoming them where the new iwners will give them 2 more vaccibations at ages 9 & 12 weeks at their own expense. Microchipping is cumpolsory in the UK.
We give extensive advice on healthtesting your bitch and caring for your breeding bitch prior to mating right through until after the puppies leave home and have always avoided giving a stud to large scale commercial pethome breeders. The stud owner will often want to meet the prospective puppies owners and wilp ne happy to re-explain health and welfare instructions to the puppies new owners after rehoming.
We will only assist you to breed from a bitch once a year & with progesterone testing you will bring her on the exact day she ovulates so only 1 mating will be needed.
The old fashioned guesswork method of doing 2 matings 48hrs apart around day 12 of her season can still result in no pregnancy as the bitchs fertility/ovulation(her eggs)can only be fertilised within 1-2 days of ovulation in this breed & she may ovulate as early as on day 3 or as late as on day 21 in our experience.
We limit our stud dog to siring 5 litters per year for genetic diversity reasons ie to widen the genepool.
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