As a Breeding and
Research Facility for
the Australian
Labradoodle,
it is our commission to
continue refining and
perfecting the breed by
moving forward.
To enable this, it has been
our practice to retire
our Breeding dogs or
allow them out to other
breeders, once we have
their progeny to breed
on with into the next
generation.
Numbers are kept to a
minimum which allows
each boy or
girl to live as a much
loved individual in
either one of our
carefully selected
Guardian Homes, or here
with us.
Male breeding dogs have
a profound influence on
their breed.
Whereas a female can be
expected to produce at
best, 80 to a hundred
puppies throughout her
lifetime, a male can
produce many hundreds,
and even thousands of
offspring if given the
opportunity. Add
to this, the current
modern trend to freeze
semen, which can be used
long after the dog has
passed on, and it is
easy to see why the Stud
Dog needs to be chosen
with utmost care.
A Stud male animal of
any species is
judged on his
pre-potency, which means
that not only must he
exhibit the best
phonetic traits himself,
(physical appearance) but he should also
demonstrate his ability
to pass along these as
well as positive genetic
traits as well to his progeny
over a diverse female
population.
All Rutland Manor
Breeding Dogs are
Health
Screened, and DNA
Profiled. Rutland
Manor does not inbreed
nor heavily linebreed.
This is often done in the pursuit of
pre-potency in ' pure
' dog breeds, in which an
inbreeding co-efficient
of 30% is considered to
be quite low and
perfectly acceptable.
RUTLAND MANOR has
a self imposed benchmark
of a maximum of
10% and more
usually between 1% and
3% and has achieved this
via carefully selected
outcross infusions at
appropriate intervals
over twenty plus years.
Rutland Manor
ASD
Australian Labradoodles
