Who are you dealing with?
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We are Missouri state licensed and inspected breeders located on just under 3 acres at the end of a subdivision outside Jefferson City, Mo where there is ample room for my handful of dogs in my fenced yard and secluded back woods where they can get some exercise safely away from any dangerous traffic.
I, Baylee, am 26 years old and began breeding Goldendoodles as my FFA project when I was 15. I am currently attending the University of Missouri in Columbia, Mo majoring in Animal Science with plans to apply to veterinary school within the next couple years upon the completion of checking every little box on the very long checklist of things required to do so. My cousin, Odessa, who is 24, lives with me and helps me out with the dogs as she also moved to this area to attend Mizzou. She is now majoring in Agriculture with a minor in Animal Science. I believe she is also going to try the vet school route now but she doesn't want me to tell anyone in case she doesn't get in. Crazy girl... My mom is a vet and I grew up helping her care for both large and small animals in her mobile mixed practice. Since I moved away to school, I work as a veterinary technician in a veterinary clinic in Columbia. Odessa is the kennel manager and a receptionist there as as well.. I had my first litter of Goldendoodles on Valentine's Day 2007, I had my first litter of Standard Poodles in April of 2010 and my first litter of Aussiedoodles in May 2011 (Note: I no longer breed Aussiedoodles). My original two dogs I began breeding with were my Golden female, Suzy (deceased), and my Standard male, Apollo, also now deceased. Their profiles are on the "Retired" page if you are curious and Apollo's descendants are still being used in the program today. My dogs are bred with the intention of providing a high quality pet with a loving,gentle personality and a non-shedding quality. I strive to give every dog personal attention and love so that they are stable, happy, healthy, and confident individuals. 
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How Puppies are Raised?
Puppies are born in the house and kept there until they are five-seven weeks old depending on how well they are litter box trained and how clean I am able to keep their area indoors. This is often dependent on who the momma is and the litter size. Some mothers train their puppies to the boxes better and/or clean up after the pups themselves better than others and then larger litters are just harder for both me and momma to keep up with inside. The weaning pen in the outdoor kennel has a large house that I can heat if needed and is definitely easier to sanitize while conducting our parasite protocol after that point. I also believe exposure to the outdoors while the puppies are still nursing is important to the development of their immune systems and allergy prevention-they have periodic outdoor excursions between the 2 and 6 week mark for this purpose as well.
I provide puppies with the opportunity to eat small bite dry puppy food at three weeks. Some of them can eat it, others don't even try at that point but they get the hang of it soon. I vaccinate for distemper,adenovirus type 2, parvovirus and parainfluenza at 6 weeks and then again at 9 weeks with the addition of 4 strains of lepto before allowing the puppies to be released. I also repeat, and recommend that you do as well, the 9 week vaccine with the lepto again at 12 and 16 weeks old if I still have the puppies. I give Pyrantal Pamoate at 3,4, & 5 weeks for roundworms . My typical weaning parasite protocol is a 10 day course of Panacure(fenbendazole), which is a broad spectrum dewormer, in conjunctions with a 10 day course of Albon, which is an intestinal antibiotic that treats for coccidia, mediates weaning stress,and balances gut bacteria. If I have the puppies longer than a week or so after the weaning parasite protocol is complete I may also administer a single dose broad spectrum combination dewormer called Drontal on the day that you pick your puppy up as well as a single dose liquid coccidiostat just to make sure all the bases are covered when it comes to parasites.
Puppies are sent home with a one gallon bag of their puppy food, a packet containing registration papers, 3 year genetic warranty, vaccination & medication record, rabies certificate (if applicable), puppy training book. microchip registration information, and written original of veterinary exam performed after weaning. Please see the Common Questions Tab/Warranty for full version.
I provide puppies with the opportunity to eat small bite dry puppy food at three weeks. Some of them can eat it, others don't even try at that point but they get the hang of it soon. I vaccinate for distemper,adenovirus type 2, parvovirus and parainfluenza at 6 weeks and then again at 9 weeks with the addition of 4 strains of lepto before allowing the puppies to be released. I also repeat, and recommend that you do as well, the 9 week vaccine with the lepto again at 12 and 16 weeks old if I still have the puppies. I give Pyrantal Pamoate at 3,4, & 5 weeks for roundworms . My typical weaning parasite protocol is a 10 day course of Panacure(fenbendazole), which is a broad spectrum dewormer, in conjunctions with a 10 day course of Albon, which is an intestinal antibiotic that treats for coccidia, mediates weaning stress,and balances gut bacteria. If I have the puppies longer than a week or so after the weaning parasite protocol is complete I may also administer a single dose broad spectrum combination dewormer called Drontal on the day that you pick your puppy up as well as a single dose liquid coccidiostat just to make sure all the bases are covered when it comes to parasites.
Puppies are sent home with a one gallon bag of their puppy food, a packet containing registration papers, 3 year genetic warranty, vaccination & medication record, rabies certificate (if applicable), puppy training book. microchip registration information, and written original of veterinary exam performed after weaning. Please see the Common Questions Tab/Warranty for full version.
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FFA Career
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The production and sale of these puppies provided me with a very good FFA project which awarded me the following degrees and awards for my effort during my FFA career:
1) Proficiency Award in Small Animal Production and Care in 2008 2) Proficiency Award in Emerging Agricultural Technology (for the website) in 2009 3) The Chapter Star Award in 2009. 4) I received my State FFA Degree at the 2010 Missouri State Convention. 5) A Profiecency Award in Agricultural Sales in 2010. 6) State Profiecency Winner in Small Animal Production and Care in 2011 7) Silver Rating at Nationals in Small Animal Production and Care 2011 FFA Honors at graduation. I was also chapter secretary and vice president. I failed to finish my last 6 months of records and did not get my National FFA degree. Basically because I forgot I guess. I should have done it.....I was so close.... |