CURRENT LITTER

Our parent dogs  are our family and live in our home with us.  At any time we may have 2-4 breeding age females and 2 intact males under our roof.  And possibly a puppy that is being tested and evaluated for appropriateness over months or a year.  We also have stud dogs in guardian homes.  

There is more than meets the eye with our gorgeous painstakingly selected breeding dogs and we treat them as our partners in bringing you the best puppy we can muster.  

The Breeder’s Niche we aspire to is as follows:

 Calm, socialized, confident, eager to please temperament. Sound and strong structure. Quality movement. Medium to small size. Free of testable disease.  Low shed, hypoallergenic, with desirable coat characteristics.  And as much “ color pop” as we can muster by adding red intensity and rufus genetics into our lines.   

I have sifted thru many hundreds of litters and testing results to select dogs that have clear health genetics, solid canine builds, and desirable color and coat profiles.  

Every dog in our home is a phantom.  Without sable, roan or saddle tan. My favorite combination for Bernedoodle puppies is a F1 Bernedoodle sire bred to a phantom poodle dam who has at least 8 red intensity .… to create the more hypoallergenic F1B. 

Our stud dogs have hard to find characteristics, and their impact on our puppies is clear.  
Our momma dogs are typically very rare high red  intensity AKC phantom poodles with completely clear genetic testing, with Rufus and Irish spotting genetics.  I find poodles make excellent intelligent mothers- a bit more careful, devoted, fastidious and fit than other breeds.

WHY “ DOODLES” / OUT CROSSES?
I am a strong advocate for low COI  and intentional hybrid breedings and careful outcrosses.   The benefits of outcrossing whist maintaining known characteristics of a purebred are discussed at length on nearly every University Agricultural website and in their educational materials.  

As a farmer for 20 years it was quite clear to me that the F1  “ doodles” of the chicken or bovine worlds benefited from vigor, good nature and health beyond that of their purebred parents.   As is seen in breeds like an ISA Brown chicken or white faced angus.   So while I understand that some breeders of purebred are mortified  by “ doodling “, my own perspective is a respect for the possible enhancement of  hardiness, health and temperament of a widened but still predictable gene pool.  
I genuinely love both BMD and Poodle breeds.  
The BMD is loyal, devoted, calm with stunning markings and a solid, strong build.  It is also a large breed that sheds heavily and has a poor health outlook, chronic whelping struggles and lack of longevity.
Poodles are extremely tuned in, smart, hypoallergenic, athletic, excellent mothers,  available in a range of sizes, and generally long lived.  They can also be more high strung,  their coloring generally fades, and they are prone to ear hair/ infections and watery eyes.
A Bernedoodle bridges the gap- providing a longer lived , colorful, more hypoallergenic dog in a manageable size.